Reviewing theater from Broadway to the Fringe since 1994
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Welcome to Illyria, the setting of and the fourth show of Gamm Theatre’s 39th Season. The audience members are invited guests to a Shakespearean celebration. First, we come upon a shipwreck where twins Viola and Sebastian are separated and forced to survive on their own in a strange land. The first, Viola, falls in…
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Trinity Rep’s 2nd show of 2024 continues the celebration of their 60th anniversary season with “Fences,” one of August Wilson’s most famous plays. This show won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987. In segregated Pittsburgh back in 1957, former Negro baseball player Troy Maxon is barely making ends meet as a sanitation…
Crossroads Live presents PRETTY WOMAN The Musical. Book by Garry Marshall & J.F. Lawton. Music and Lyrics by Bryan Adams & Jim Vallance. Based on the Touchtone Pictures motion picture written by J.F. Lawton. Original Broadway Production Directed and Choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. Choreography Recreated by Rusty Mowery. Direction Recreated by DB Bonds. Music Supervision,…
Lyric Stage of Boston presents THIRST by Ronán Noone. Directed by Courtney O’Connor. Scenic Design by Janie E. Howland. Lighting Design by Karen Perlow. Costume Design by Mikayla Reid. Sound Design by David Remedios. Lyric Stage of Boston, Clarendon Street, Boston, through March 17, 2024. By Linda Chin Unlike Eugene O’Neill’s play Thirst (1914), about…
