A CHORUS LINE Reviewed by Tony Annicone The current show at the Stadium Theatre is “A Chorus Line”, the 1976 winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Book and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is a musical based on the lives and experiences of Broadway dancers. Original director/choreographer Michael Bennett wanted to…
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THIS IS OUR YOUTH, Burbage Theatre Company
by Tony Annicone Burbage Theatre Company’s alternating winter show is “This is Our Youth”, by Kenneth Lonergan who also wrote the Academy Award winning “Manchester by the Sea” in 2016. It was his first play written in 1996 and is about two disillusioned 1980’s upper West Side kids. Their parents went from have nothing liberals to financial have-it-alls with troubled…
The Show Must Go On in Trinity Rep’s Hilarious ‘INTO THE BREECHES’
Reviewed by Tony Annicone The latest show at Trinity Repertory Theatre is “Into the Breeches” by George Brant. This show is set in Providence in 1942 and there is a problem at the Oberon Play House. The director and the leading men are all off to war. Determined to press on, the director’s wife sets…
Liars & Believers ‘IRRESISTIBLE’ Applies Woke Spin to Vaudevillian Concept
by Mike Hoban IRRESISTIBLE – Directed by Jason Slavick; Written by the LAB Ensemble. Presented by Liars & Beleivers. Performed at Sonia at the Middle East, 10 Brookline Street in Cambridge, MA. One night only, January 24, 2018. You shoulda been there. That’s all I can say, because if you weren’t able to attend…
