Choir Boy at Yale Rep
March 31 – April 23, 2022 Yale University has a long and distinguished vocal tradition. There are the undergraduate Whiffenpoofs, of course, and the School of Music confers advanced degrees in choral conducting. So it’s perhaps not too surprising to find that Choir Boy features one of the greatest small male choral groups you’ve ever […]
Dream Hou$e at Long Wharf Theatre
Dream Hou$e at Long Wharf Theatre Playwright Eliana Pipes has furnished her new play Dream Hou$e (as it is styled in the program) with an abundance of themes in a variety of styles. The overall effect is striking but cluttered. The Castillo sisters are trying to sell their recently deceased mother’s century-old house in a […]
Blind Date
“ A French clown on a blind date.” From this seemingly inane premise Rebecca Northan, improviser extraordinaire, has crafted a ninety-minute show that has had audiences across Canada (with detours to New York and London) rolling in the aisles for more than ten years. I had been hearing good things about this show for a […]
A Few Good Men at St Jacobs Playhouse
A sturdy production of a well-plotted and gripping courtroom drama, put across by terrific actors who, more often than not, manage to rise above the script’s obvious debts to television clichés and sit-com joke craft.
I Am My Own Wife at Long Wharf Theatre
I Am My Own Wife at Long Wharf Theatre The Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, is giving Doug Wright’s Pulitzer prize-winning one-person play, I Am My Own Wife, a respectful if ultimately disappointing revival starring a very talented young actor, Mason Alexander Park. The play revolves around a real-life German transgender woman […]
London Assurance at The Irish Rep – A Review
London Assurance at The Irish Rep – A Review After the deaths of Richard Sheridan (School for Scandal) and Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops To Conquer), the English-speaking stage seems to have lain fallow until the emergence in the late nineteenth century of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, at least when viewed from our contemporary […]
My Name Is Lucy Barton on Broadway
My Name Is Lucy Barton on Broadway “LAURA LINNEY IS LUMINOUS” a sign outside Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater announces. If only the same could be said of My Name Is Lucy Barton. This one-woman show, which I am compelled to report, received rapturous reviews from the New York critics, is an adaptation, by Rona […]
A Huron County Christmas Carol at The Blyth Festival
Artistic Director Gil Garratt has transposed the tale to present day Huron County, Ontario, where Ebenezer Scrooge and his deceased partner Jacob Marley have pretty much cornered the market in grain mills. Scrooge wields his monopoly power with villainous fervor.
Mary Poppins at The Grand Theatre
What elevates this production of Mary Poppins to must-see status is the superb cast, most of them veterans of the Stratford and Shaw Festivals.
Aunt Agnes For Christmas at The Foster Festival — A Review
Aunt Agnes for Christmas is as airy and insubstantial as spun cotton candy and every bit as sweet, which makes it ideal for a family outing to the theatre, especially if there’s a tween girl in your clan.