by Michele Markarian ‘Company’ – Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by George Furth. Directed by Spiro Veloudos. Presented by Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA, through October 9. “What song is the biggest clunker in ‘Company’”? I asked my husband on the drive over to see…
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‘Blasted’ Offers Uncompromising Look at Darkest Sides of Humanity
by Mike Hoban ‘Blasted’ – Written by Sarah Kane; Directed by John Kuntz; Set Design by Ryan Bates; Lighting Design by Jeff Adelberg; Sound Design by David Reiffel; Costume Design by Lara de Bruijn. Presented by the Off the Grid Theatre Company at the Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont…
MARY POPPINS (University of Rhode Island )
Reviewed by Tony Annicone University of Rhode Island Theatre Department’s closing show of their season is “Mary Poppins.” The show is based on the P.L. Travers books and the 1964 movie starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. It shows anything can and will happen at # 17 Cherry Hill Lane. The Broadway…
THE MOORS (Providence College’s Theatre Department)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Providence College’s Theatre Department’s closing show of their season at Angell’s Blackfriars Theatre is “The Moors” by Jen Silverman. This dark comedy is a satire and is set in an eerie manor in a bleak, windswept landscape; shadowy corners and surreptitious staircases; secrets, mysteries and melodramatic revelations abound. This is the…