Honors Theatre Arts Play Review

NOTE:  With the closures and cancellations this semester, there are probably no live performances that you will be able to see.  For this assignment, you can write the review on a performance that you watched online.  You can click here for resources of some livestreams of productions.  
  • For your review, you will need to tell me how you accessed the recording (this will count as the 'documentation' that is referenced in the requirements below). 
  • Make sure that you are watching a legal recording or livestream of this production (yes, I am aware that there are many illegal bootleg versions of Broadway musicals out there on YouTube...don't use them for this assignment).  
  • Make sure that you are watching a recording of a live performance, not just a movie musical.  For example, do not use the 2002 movie version of Chicago starring Renee Zellweger (as awesome as that one is). 


You should see, and submit a typed review on, two theatrical productions.  
  • Productions are to be seen outside of class.  Your own productions & other Pinecrest Players productions will not count.  Additionally, if you see a play during class time with a class, or as part of a class (if your English class takes a field trip to see a local production, for example), this also will not count.  
  • NOTE:  Since attending/participating the NCTC Play Festival is an expectation for this class, a play that you see while you are at the play festival where we are participating will also not count.   
  • The reviews should be at least a page each.  They should be in depth, and well thought out.  
  • Review should be typed and submitted through Canvas (due dates will be posted on Canvas).  You also need to show documentation that you were at that production.  This documentation should also be saved through Canvas (picture of the program/ticket stub is fine...a picture of you at the show is fine as well).
​​NOTE:  Simply saying 'Mr. Faw, you saw me at the play' is not documentation.  You need something physical that documents that you were there.
  • Twenty Percent of your grade for the Play Review will be the documentation that you were at the play.
     Review and critique the production from an artist's point of view.  Don't just type 'I liked the show...it was funny.'  What about the production did you like, or dislike.  Why?  If you have been working on this play, what would you have done differently?  Were there ideas you saw you really liked, that you could use in future productions?