Last weekend Mooney on Theatre was a flurry of activity talking about The Next Stage Festival virtual festival Community Booster. The live aspects may have finished, but you still have today and tomorrow to watch and listen to the performances and participate in the self-care stream.
In Morro and Jasp’s new offering, a one-night fundraiser for the virtual 2021 Next Stage Community Booster called Bake Your Heart Out, the two clown sisters are up to their old tricks. The inseparable duo has finally come up against a directive to be separate, and a baby on the way makes their divide even … Continue reading Review: Bake Your Heart Out (Next Stage Community Booster 2021)
Blind Confidence, written and performed by Graham Isador, is playing as part of the Storytelling series in the Next Stage‘s 2021 virtual festival Community Booster. Sometimes things happen in our lives where we end up saying, “Well, at least I got a good story out of it.” When Isador was asked to help create a … Continue reading Review: Blind Confidence (Next Stage Community Booster 2021)
We all consume things we know that are bad for us, in order to escape, to connect, to feel. That’s one of the messages of Mara Da Costa Reis’s Fish Water, now playing in the Next Stage‘s 2021 virtual festival Community Booster as part of the Storytelling series. Reis’ story, which begins as an innocuous … Continue reading Review: Fish Water (Next Stage Community Booster 2021)
The Kindness of Murder is one of the plays in the Theatre Shorts Stream of The Next Stage Community Booster. Written by Steven Elliott Jackson, it’s the story of Dr. Crippen (Andy Trithardt) and Ethel LeNeve (Rebecca Perry), his mistress. It’s produced by Steven Elliott Jackson, Rebecca Perry From Minmar Gaslight Productions and directed by … Continue reading Review: The Kindness of Murder (Next Stage Community Booster 2021)