Reviewed by Tony Annicone The opening musical of North Shore Music Theatre’s 63rd season is “Mame”, originally titled “My Best Girl”, it is based on the 1955 fictional novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and a 1956 play starring Rosalind Russell. The musical version by Jerry Herman opened on Broadway on May 24, 1966,…
Author: Mike Hoban
Wellesley Repertory Theater Offers up A ‘Piece of My Heart’
Review by James Wilkinson A Piece of My Heart – Written by Shirley Lauro. Directed by Nora Hussey. Set Design by Janie Howland. Costume Design by Chelsea Kurl. Lighting Design by Matt Whiton. Projection Design by Johnathan Carr. Sound Design by George Cooke. Dramaturgy by Laura Zawarski. Presented by Wellesley Repertory Theatre,…
The Joint is Jumping with Theatre by the Sea’s AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
Reviewed by Tony Annicone The first musical of Theatre by the Sea’s historic 85th season is Fats Waller’s musical revue “Ain’t Misbehavin’.” The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s and 1930’s comes to life onstage as a tribute to the black musicians of that era. It was an era of growing creativity, cultural awareness and ethnic…
Ogunquit’s “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” is a Spectacular Songfest
by Sheila Barth There’s no other way to say it. Ogunquit Playhouse’s opening season,90-minute, one-act, super songfest, “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” based on the music of multi-award winners Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, is sensational, spectacular, stupendous, and superlative in every way.
