Welcome to the Wicked Stage
This is the Wicked Stage, a blog of theatre reviews by the students of the
Watershed School. What happened was this: I was approached by Jason Berv, who runs the school, to create a week-long theatre class for students, using my perspective as a
playwright, actor, teacher, and theatre critic. I decided to have the class focus on theatre from the point of view of a critic. I used the model of
nytheatre.com, where I where I was a senior reviewer for several years, as the template for the kind of reviews we would write. So each day the students and I talk about theatre and reviewing and all the elements that comprise a play, and each night we go to a different theatre, take backstage tours, attend shows, and have talk backs with the cast after the show. So far, we've seen
Mariela in the Desert at the Denver Center Theatre Company,
Hamlet- Prince of Darkness at the National Theatre Conservatory, and
Opus at the Curious Theatre. Tonight, we see our last show,
Nine, at the Arvada Center. In the blogs that follow, you'll see the reviews that the students have written about the shows.
Enjoy.
