By Beverly Creasey You can’t experience Moonbox’s stunning version of Kander & Ebb’s CABARET (@ BCA through April 29th) without thinking of the Neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville. The current president and his nationalist (that’s nazionalist auf Deutsch) followers are fanning the flames of white supremacy with every other tweet. CABARET was shocking…
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“Moon Over Buffalo” (Providence College)
by Tony Annicone Welcome to the madcap world of Ken Ludwig’s “Moon Over Buffalo”, the closing show of Providence College’s Blackfriar’s Theatre season. This farce is set in 1953 at the Erlanger Theatre in Buffalo, New York. George and Charlotte Hay are on tour doing “Cyrano” and “Private Lives” in repertory. Famous director Frank Capra…
A Beguiling “Anna Christie” at Lyric
By Michele Markarian ‘Anna Christie’ – Written by Eugene O’Neill. Adapted and directed by Scott Edmiston. Presented by Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA, through May 6. Eugene O’Neill won his second Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1922 for Anna Christie. Originally a four-act play with far more…
“GYPSY” (Salve Regina University Theatre)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Salve Regina University Theatre’s closing show of their season is the hit 1959 musical “Gypsy” with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents. This musical is about the true story of famous striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee. It’s the biography of Gypsy whose real name was Louise and…
