By Sheila Barth During World War II, inhumanities and atrocities weren’t limited to Nazi Germany. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the US created its own black mark in history by rounding up more than 120,000 loyal Japanese-American citizens and placing them in internment camps.
Category: Musicals
Trinity’s “Ragtime” a Breathtaking Musical Extravaganza
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Welcome to the turn of the century with “Ragtime”, the closing musical of Trinity Rep’s season. This 1998 hit musical is based on E.L. Doctorow’s novel. Trinity begins the show in a contemporary room setting and from there we go back in time to 1905 with the epic sweep of this…
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (URI)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone The closing musical at the University of Rhode Island is Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music.” The music and lyrics are by Sondheim while the book is by Hugh Wheeler. The musical was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s “Smiles of a Summer Night” and is set in Sweden at the turn of…
THERE’S NO DULL MOMENT IN MRT’S ‘THE VILLAINS SUPPER CLUB’
By Sheila Barth BOX INFO: Kristen Mendelkoch and an ensemble of Boston stars appear in Lila Rose Kaplan’s comic book, one-act comedy about motherhood and villainy, through May 20:Wednesday, Thursday,7:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Saturday, 4,8 p.m.; May 20, 2 p.m. Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 52 E. Merrimack St., Lowell. $26-$73.Mrt.org, 978-654-4678, box_office@mrt.org. Shazaam! Kapow!…
