‘The Cher Show’ – Rick Elice (writer), Gerry McIntyre (Director), Jane Lanier (Choreographer), Kristin Stowell (Music Director), Andy Walmsley (Set Design), Richard Latta (Lighting Design), Bob Mackie (Costume Design), Roxanne De Luna (Wig Design), Kevin Heard (Sound Design), John Narun (Projection Design). Presented by the Ogunquit Playhouse through June 25th. by Linda Chin Ogunquit Playhouse…
Author: Theater Mirror
Theatre by the Sea’s ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ is a High Energy Musical Extravaganza
by Tony Annicone Owner and Producer Bill Hanney opens his historic “Theatre by the Sea” after a two-year pandemic with “Million Dollar Quartet.” This Tony nominated musical is set on December 4, 1956, when an extraordinary twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley together at Sun Records in…
Trinity Rep’s “Fairview” Takes an Interactive Look at Race
by Tony Annicone Trinity Repertory Company’s closing show of their 2021/22 season is “Fairview”, a Pulitzer Prize winning show by Jackie Sibblies Drury. It is about an upper middle class African American family that starts off as a sitcom a la “Good Times”, but then becomes confrontational. The play also turns interactive with a riveting…
Shall We Cancel A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder? It Appears To Be the Only Civilized Thing to Do.
by Michael Cox Times have changed. The theatre, especially, has changed in the past few years. Every theatre company in this city has declared as much. This musical comedy, the culminating play of Lyric Stage Company’s season, is filled from beginning to end with the most vile and offensive sentiments. Exploitative and entitled characters espouse…
