by Theatre Lunatico | Oct 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Long before the time of scary movies and costumed kids collecting candy door-to-door, Halloween began as a sacred celebration of life on the cusp of death. At the end of harvest’s plenitude and the onset of winter, ghosts were believed to return to haunt the earth,...
by Theatre Lunatico | Jun 5, 2022 | Melancholy Play, Press, Productions
Lily Janiak May 31, 2022 Whenever I write about the playwright Sarah Ruhl, I reach for metaphors related to glass. Her worlds — Eurydice traveling to Hades, straight married couples whose hormones are aflutter with a newcomer, two sisters with opposite feelings about...
by Theatre Lunatico | Apr 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
On February 11, 2022, Theatre Lunatico lost a dear friend and a treasured member of our company—scenic designer & technical directorGideon Jones Gideon was both an artist and an inventor, and a vital part of the growth and development of La Val’s...
by Theatre Lunatico | Jun 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
A warm hello from the Theatre Lunatico core collective; we hope that you are all safe and well. 2020 finds us all in unprecedented times. Just as we were ready to send out an update to you all on our response to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place, we woke to news of George...
by Theatre Lunatico | Sep 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Shakespeare’s Roman Empire Strikes New Trumpean Notes by Barry David Horwitz I have always avoided this play. It’s a horror show of grotesque, gory, and ghoulish murders, rapes, and tortures that take place in a fictional late Roman Empire. “Titus...
