Author Archive
SUFFER THE LONG NIGHT
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
FLU EPIDEMIC STRIKES COMMUNITY THEATER
UNDERSTUDIES REPLACE 19 OUT OF 23 IN CAST
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EDUCATING RITA
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Willy Russell’s Educating Rita is probably best known to Americans as the 1983 film which starred Michael Caine as alcoholic Professor Frank Bryant and introduced Julie Walters to the world as hairstylist turned open university student Susan “Rita” White, a role which won her the Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination.
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SISSYSTRATA
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
The Celebration Theatre concludes its 25th season with a sensational Sissystrata, a visually dazzling, outrageously funny adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata a la West Hollywood.
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THE PAVILION
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
As the strains of The Beatles “Across The Universe” fade, a young man appears on a bare black stage.
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SONA TERA ROMAN HESS
Sunday, August 17th, 2008NOT RECOMMENDED
“Some people never die, and I am one.”
These are the words that begin Sona Tera Roman Hess, described in press materials as “the story of a family struggling to reconstruct itself in the aftermath of a strange infidelity, set against the backdrop of impending war.”
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BABY
Saturday, August 16th, 2008RECOMMENDED
Three women learn that they are pregnant. One is surprised, the second overjoyed, the third shocked, almost horrified by the news.
Thus begins Baby, Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire’s 1983 Broadway sort-of-a-hit (241 performances and 7 Tony Award … nominations).
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deLEARious
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Open Fist Theatre has come up with a winner in their World Premiere production of deLEARious, a Monty Python meets William Shakespeare delight of a musical within a musical within a musical.
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