Articles Tagged With: Otega Okurume

Clyde’s at Spotlighters Theatre

Reviews June 18, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Smoky and zingy duck-egg salad, with chives, spread thick with pepperjack cheese, thick-cut heirloom-beefsteak tomato slice, and spicy brown mustard on a crispy baguette brushed with red pepper flake and chili oil. Mm. The first bite should be an invitation you can’t refuse. Spotlighters Theatre closes out their 62nd Season with that sumptuous first bite— Clyde’s by Lynn Nottage— and it’s as delicious as the advertisements have been leading everyone to believe. Directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell,

Songs For A New World at Other Voices Theatre

Reviews May 15, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

It’s about one moment— in this show, it’s that tragically beautiful heartbreaking moment near the end— it’s about one second— maybe when sexy Mrs. Claus saunters into the clinic? But you didn’t know— that you have to go— to Other Voices Theatre to see Songs For A New World, appearing as the penultimate show of their 2024/2025 season. Directed by Ashley Gerhardt with Musical Direction by Marci Shegogue, this song-cycle show, by the incomparably talented Jason Robert Brown,

Evita at Silhouette Stages

Reviews October 19, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

What makes a city hum? Who gives it life? Evita! Evita! And Silhouette Stages’ current production of the Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita will have the whole city of Columbia more than just humming. You’ll cheer. You’ll cry. You’ll be moved. Directed by Daniel Douek, with Musical Direction by Ginny Moses, and Choreography by Amie Bell, this tragically beautiful tale of Argentina’s first lady— the first ‘princess of the people’— is in gloriously capable hands under Daniel Douek’s direction and his production team’s innovative practices on stage.

The Lightning Thief at Silhouette Stages

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical at Silhouette Stages

Reviews October 14, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Do you suffer from ADHD and Dyslexia? Does trouble follow you everywhere you go? Do seemingly random people in your day-to-day life that nobody else can remember being there spontaneously turn into scary monsters trying to kill you? You might be a Demigod! A word of caution: when attempting to self-diagnose Demigodism, move at the speed of a mortal: very, very slowly. Or maybe you’re just thrillified that Silhouette Stages is producing The Lighting Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical.