Reviewed by Tony Annicone The final show of Community Players 96th season is “You Can’t Take It With You”, a 1937 Pulitzer prize winning comedy by Moss Hart and George F. Kaufman. Meet the Sycamore family, a collection of lovable eccentric incompetents who keep a printing press in the parlor, manufacture fireworks in the…
Category: Plays
Flat Earth’s “Fat Pig” Artfully Combines Pain, Laughter
by Mike Hoban “Fat Pig” Written by Neil LaBute. Directed by Juliet Bowler. Presented by The Flat Earth Theatre at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, through June 24. Flat Earth Theatre follows up their luminous (and Elliot Norton Award–winning) Silent Sky with another first-rate production, Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig, playing through next weekend…
BLITHE SPIRIT (RISE Playhouse)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone RISE’s current production is “Blithe Spirit”, a farce by Noel Coward. This show focuses around the paranormal experience of Charles Condomine, a novelist and socialite of Kent, England. In search of inspiration for his new novel, Charles hires an eccentric medium for research purposes, and ends up in contact with…
“ALMOST, MAINE” Little Theatre of Fall River
Reviewed by Tony Annicone 84 year old Little Theatre of Fall River’s summer show at the Fire Barn is “Almost, Maine” by John Cariani. The show is a series of nine vignettes exploring love as well as the joys and perils of romance. Cariani employs elements of magical realism as he explores the…
