Theater Top 5: May 2020

Philip Dawkins, writer and performer of “The Happiest Place on Earth”/Photo: Michael Brosilow

1
The Happiest Place On Earth
(Sideshow Theatre)
Written and performed by Philip Dawkins, this archival recording of the 2017 Jeff Award for Solo Performance takes audiences on an intimate journey to the “happiest place on earth” through the perspective of one unhappy family.
Ongoing

2
The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral
(The Neo-Futurists)
An online adaptation of the iconoclastic company’s ongoing, ever-changing attempt to perform thirty plays in sixty minutes in the flesh for a live audience.
Ongoing

3
All-One! The Dr. Bronner’s Play
(The Passage Theatre)
This staged reading of Beth Hyland’s latest play is an irreverent look at life’s deepest darkness and brightest light through the too-wild-to-be-believed life of the world’s most famous maker of soap, Emanuel Bronner.
May 1-10

4
Masque of the Red Coronavirus
(Black Button Eyes Productions)
A free online-only script and video experience, adapted, in part, from Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death” featuring spoken word, song, original music, fire dancing, puppetry, burlesque dancing and opera.
Ongoing

5
Medusa Undone
(Otherworld Theatre Company)
A recording of a 2019 production explores the social problem of “rape culture,” our tendency to blame victims, and the great injustice suffered by female victims of abuse of all kinds.
Ongoing via the company’s Patreon Page