Reviewed by Tony Annicone “Oklahoma” is the classic Broadway musical that launched Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration back in 1943. So to celebrate North Shore Music Theatre’s 64th season, owner and producer Bill Hanney brings it in as his opening musical of his 10th season at this historic theatre. The story is about Curly, the cowboy, and Laurey,…
‘The Nature Plays’ Bring Mount Auburn Cemetery to Life in a Spectacular Plein Air Tour de Force
by Shelley A. Sackett ‘The Nature Plays’ – Written by Patrick Gabridge; Directed by Courtney O’Connor. Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge. Through June 9 Mt. Auburn Cemetery and its rich, natural environment is a heaven-made set for playwright Patrick Gabridge’s spectacular first set of five site-specific one-act plays, collectively titled, “The Nature…
A Brief History and Highlights of the IRNEs
by Beverly Creasey 1988 on: Precursor of the IRNEs: Activist/journalists in Boston have banded together and are intensifying their coverage of (a lack of) diversity in the arts. Papers large and small shine a light on institutions like the MFA. (The Gorilla Girls point out that the only way women are represented in museums is…
World Premiere of ‘Love and Other Fables’ – a Comic Gem
Reviewed by Tony Annicone The world has been waiting thousands of years for this musical about Aesop and his friends, but fortunately it has taken only 86 years for a World Premiere to come to Bill Hanney’s Theatre by the Sea. The first show of this historic theatre’s 86th season is “Love and Other Fables”…
