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: Short Takes (3min read)
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…
Broadway Fire in Reagle’s “Technicolor Dreamcoat”
By CJ Williams Directed and Choreographed by Susan M. Chebookjian, based on original Choreography by Anthony Van Laast. Lighting Design by David Wilson. Set Design by Peter Colao and Richard Schreiber. Music Direction by Dan Rodriguez. Presented by Reagle Music Theatre at 617 Lexington St, Waltham through June 18. “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”…
REMEMBER ME? Newport Playhouse
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Newport Playhouse’s second show of their 35th season is “Remember Me” by Sam Bobrick. On the surface it seems that Brian and Mary Hanson seem to have a very comfortable marriage after 25 years. He is a tax attorney and she’s an interior decorator. They seem to have it all. Then…
