bring down the house

She’s also the director of critical hit “Bring Down the House,” a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry VI” trilogy that premiered in Seattle and made its way to OSF.

Bring down the house with this week’s Slate News Quiz.

Not everyone can bring down the house with a song like “Endangered Species.”

When that show played the Meadowbrook in Cedar Grove, N.J., in 1960, Carole Cleaver, reviewing for The Wyckoff News, wrote, “Tiny Tina and Coco Ramirez dance themselves to exhaustion as the difficult Ababu princesses and bring down the house.”

“In a lot of the moments when it’s really high stakes and dark themes are happening, she is a beacon of comedy and light. That’s always really fun — to be able to bring down the house during a quiet, serious moment.”