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Based on the horror-mystery story by Charles Dickens, this play follows a traveller who encounters a signalman living and working at the mouth of an ominous tunnel. Over the course of several nights, the two men exchange sympathies, and the signalman confides that he is being haunted by spirits connected to past tragedies. The production is set entirely along the stretch of railway track where the signalman resides, his small hut overlooking the line. While the set design is

Once in a while, an avid theatre-goer encounters a production that leaves neither a "good" nor "bad" impression, but rather a lingering sense of displacement—the feeling that "this just wasn't for me." Such was the case with this reviewer and the latest staging of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. It is a strange experience to sit in a room full of laughter and feel like the only one missing the punchline, yet that dissonance is exactly what defined the evening. Jeffrey Bernard (Rob

A 50-hour-long marathon of improvisation. Yes, you read that correctly: 50 hours. As this reviewer writes, people still have another 24 hours of complete and utter madness to sit through. The Pleasance puts on this event every year, and for regulars it seems to be an absolute highlight. This year, we find ourselves in Pleasanceville in the year 1980… something — a sort of makeshift parody of the Stranger Things universe. The event works in a very clever way: every odd hour (