Delivering what the New York Times deemed "the subliminal potency of music, the head-scratching surprise of a modernist poem, and the cockeyed allure of a surrealist painting," Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice enjoys a November 7 through 10 staging by the University of Dubuque’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts, the Times adding that the genre-spanning show is a "devastatingly lovely – and just plain devastating – theatrical gloss on the Orpheus myth."

Friday's opening-night performance of director Jane Watson's The Sunshine Boys drew lots of big laughs from a smallish crowd. This one definitely deserves a bigger audience.

Hailed by Backstage as "an entertaining and ribald report from the battle of the sexes with plenty of sparkling Shavian wit," George Bernard Shaw's 1905 comedy The Philanderer opens the 2024-25 season of student-directed  theatre  at Rock Island's Augustana College's, the work a biting, rarely staged piece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Man and Superman, Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan.

K: I immediately thought that the tapes, as a plot device, were inspired by The Handmaid’s Tale. In that book, the heroine’s story is recorded on a series of cassette tapes. But you found a parallel in a different dystopian novel.

M: It reminded me of the mysterious films in Philip K. Dick’s novel The Man in the High Castle. But audience members will just have to see for themselves what the tapes are, and what they mean.