Reviewing theater from Broadway to the Fringe since 1994
Theater Mirror Editor (and lifelong Virginia Woolf fan), Julie-Anne Whitney, sat down with playwright Lindsay Joelle and director Rebecca Bradshaw to learn about the new play, Dalloway: First Love and the upcoming world premiere production that opens at Gloucester Stage on August 15.
It’s not often that the book and lyrics for a musical match or exceed the score, but with Ogunquit’s ode to film noir, City of Angels, audiences get a witty, complex story with a killer jazz score delivered by a first-rate cast.
Despite a cumbersome book and a forgettable score, under Hill’s direction the talented cast creates an emotional arc that rises above the material.
Like all satisfying theater, ‘Betrayal’ leaves us pondering big-ticket questions. What exactly constitutes “betrayal?” Is it an action? An omission? Is it knowing about the act and saying nothing? Does a betrayer owe loyalty to their co-conspirator or to their partner or to neither? Can only lovers suffer and commit betrayal, or does it extend to strangers?
