Every occupation has its hazards, but there’s something about writing that lends itself to endless scrutiny and fascination in pop culture. Is it the necessary isolation, the ensuing ego, or the vulnerability of the act, perhaps? All of the above are key catalysts in Neil Simon’s 1992 play “Jake’s Women,” which is being staged by […]
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Theater review: ‘The Other Josh Cohen’ at Geva
The performance begins before patrons even sit down. The house lights are up; people are streaming down the aisles, some fidgeting with wrapped candies (which should always happen before, not during, a show), and others balancing their plastic tumblers of wine as they check and double check their seat numbers. It isn’t until most of […]
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Theater review: Kingfisher’s overhauled “The Devil, The Witch, and the Blacksmith”
The Kingfisher Theater’s annual holiday production of “The Devil, the Witch, and the Blacksmith” is now in its third year, and though the play has had its shortcomings, the latest iteration has considerably more charm. A decidedly bizarre Christmas tale adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s story “The Night Before Christmas,” Amy Canfield and Kevin Dedes’s telling […]
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Theater review: ‘Little Women’ at Blackfriars
On opening night of “Little Women” at Blackfriars Theatre, artistic director Danny Hoskins and development manager Mary Tiballi Hoffman took the stage to greet the audience. They asked if anyone was visiting Blackfriars for the first time, and nearly half the audience raised hands. An older man in the front row leaned to his younger […]
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Theater review: ‘Titus Andronicus’ at MuCCC
Shakespeare is challenging for most professional theater troupes to pull off; even more so for amateur performers. This holiday season, however, Screen Plays has ambitiously partnered with DVC (Dream Visualize Create) to bring one of the Bard’s bloodiest tales to life onstage — and they’re doing it with a cast that features both high school […]
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Theater review: ‘First Date’ at JCC CenterStage
There are a few “firsts” in life that almost everyone can relate to: first day of school, first kiss, first home — the list goes on. But perhaps the “first” that draws the most entertaining anecdotes is a first date (even more so if it’s a blind date). The co-creators of “First Date: The Broadway […]
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Theater review: ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’
When Screen Plays announced a production of “Meet Me in St. Louis” at the Lyric Theatre this month, it caused a quick double take. Wasn’t that last year’s show? Could this be a misprint, or a mistaken announcement? As it turns out, Geva Theatre and “A Christmas Carol” doesn’t have a corner market on holiday […]
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Theater review: ‘Dracula’ at Blackfriars
Although Christmas decorations quickly replaced any remnants of Halloween in stores, a large harvest moon hangs low in the sky and the weather has just begun the transition from temperate to bone chilling. With the opening of its second 2017-18 season production, “Dracula,” on Halloween, Blackfriars Theatre isn’t in a rush to move past the […]
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Theater review: ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’
The reinstated Greece Theatre Company stages a next-level production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at the Lyric Theatre
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Theater review: ‘Smart People’ at Geva
There are a few topics people don’t bring up in casual conversation, as a rule — politics, sexual orientation, money, and race, to name a few. For heaven’s sake, just stick to asking about the weather, weekend plans, and the welfare of children or pets. Those topics, for most, are easy and non-offensive. But playwright […]
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Theater review: ‘School of Rock’ at RBTL
The RBTL ushers in their 2017-18 season with “School of Rock,” adapted from the crowd-pleasing 2003 comedy starring Jack Black.
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Theater review: Geva’s ‘In the Heights’
At the age of 37, composer and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda is already a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, two Grammys, an Emmy, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He has also been nominated for an Academy Award and was named in Time’s 2016 “Most Influential People in the World” list. But it was three […]
