By Michele Markarian “I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti.” Adapted by Jacques LaMarre from the memoir by Giulia Melucci. Directed by Ilyse Robbins . Presented by Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main Street, Stoneham, through June 25. “I can count on my breasts the number of times I’ve missed a meal”, Giulia (Kerri Jill Garbis) tells…
Category: Short Takes (3min read)
“SOCIAL SECURITY” (Little Theatre of Fall River)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Little Theatre of Fall River’s Fire Barn show is the hilarious comedy “Social Security” by Andrew Bergman. The domestic tranquility of David and Barbara Kahn, a couple of married art dealers is shattered by Barbara’s house wife sister, Trudy and her uptight CPA husband, Martin. They arrive on the scene to leave…
“YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU” (Community Players)
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…
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…
