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…
Category: Short Takes (3min read)
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…
A Refreshingly Feminist Take on “Miss Holmes”
By Michele Markarian Miss Holmes – Written by Christopher M. Walsh; Based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Directed by Weylin Symes. Presented by Greater Boston Stage Company, 395 Main Street, Stoneham, through April 22. Dorothy Watson (Brittany Rolfs) is a doctor who has managed to survive the infamous Surgeon’s Hill…
