Scaled-Down 'Les Mis' A Different Kind Of Battle
By Carolyn Hayes Think "Les Miserables," and a word that springs immediately to mind is "enormity." Created by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, and [...]
Comic Meditation On Gawky First Love
By Carolyn Hayes The central character of playwright Don Zolidis' newest work would have you believe, "This is not a love story." But from the joint [...]
The Past Impedes The Present In 'Becky Shaw'
By Martin F. Kohn Playwright Gina Gionfriddo has a lot to say in "Becky Shaw," but much of it has been said before. People are complicated? Check. [...]
Hope Women Roar With Invincible Voices
By Bridgette M. Redman What is a woman? And how do you capture her in song? That may be a task of Sisyphean proportions, but Hope Summer Repertory Theater [...]
Camp' It Up
By John Quinn Summer crept in on little cat feet at 1:04 EDT Friday. Go Comedy! in Ferndale got an early start with the Thursday debut of an original sketch [...]
Mason Street Warehouse Finds Its Muse In Xanadu
By Bridgette M. Redman Musicals can delight us in many different ways. They can inspire, they can tickle the imagination, they can bring us to tears, they can [...]
Absorbing' Shakespeare Play In A2
By Carolyn Hayes A king's obligation to a fellow empire, a servant's commitment to his master, a spouse's fidelity – these variations on the notion of loyalty [...]
Step Into Hope's Magical Hitchcock Farce
By Bridgette M. Redman In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," the White Queen tells Alice she used to believe six impossible things before breakfast. It must [...]
Cheers And Tears And Baseball Years
By Michael H. Margolin After the new-fangled route into the Foxtown parking structure (under renovation) and settling down on the sprung spring in the City [...]
Emotional Therapy, Of Sorts, At The Theater
By Judith Cookis Rubens A good night at the theater makes you think. A great night, it could be argued, makes you feel. In the case of "Next to Normal," the [...]
Up, Down, In And Out: 'Relationships' In A Nutshell
By John Quinn "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" is the second-longest running off-Broadway musical, garnering enough audiences to play 5,000+ [...]
One-Acts Rule At The Ringwald
By John Quinn Early on the morning of June 28, 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people rioted on Christopher Street, NYC, in response to a police [...]
