It’s a beautiful drive down to Bristol Valley Theatre, where the light summer fare seems a throwback to earlier theatrical values. In the middle of its 10th anniversary season, BVT is performing one of those silly pieces of claptrap that used to be called “straw hat theater” entertainment. Gerald Moon’s Corpse! is listed as a […]
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Fanfare, firsts, and a fabulous Richard III
On July 13, 1952, Alec Guinness stepped onto the stage of a large tent to play Richard III in the first performance of Canada’s Stratford Festival. Exactly 50 years later, Shakespeare’s Richard III opened at the multi-million dollar Avon Theatre July 13, after the entrance of the Governor General of Canada and after a very […]
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Powerful women shine at Shaw Fest
The Shaw Festival’s three accomplished July openings all center on powerful women who rule the roost, though the third could use a stronger rooster.
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Big man, small treatment
Geva Theatre continues its adventurous programming into the summer with a work of historical interest in the intimate Nextstage. Even before Indiana Repertory Theatre’s world premiere last fall of James Still’s Looking over the President’s Shoulder, Geva had arranged to give its original production this second presentation anywhere. It now has other productions planned nationwide. […]
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Nothing but love
It’s obviously Barbara Biddy’s enormous affection for Jonathan Harvey’s sweetly quirky play Beautiful Thing that energized Shipping Dock’s exceptional production. Not an easy assignment, the play about awkward first love between two working-class teenage boys in southeast London carries the added burden of comparison with a film version that has become internationally beloved. Well, Biddy […]
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Stay outta that hole
As you can see in Edward Albee’s The Goat, a great new play about a man who betrays his wife by screwing a goat, there’s no accounting for taste. I loved that play, but I’ve got to admit that, though I truly admire Blackfriars’ latest production and respect the show it’s doing, I really don’t […]
