Posts Tagged ‘A Noise Within’

AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON


To sell or not to sell. That is the question at the heart of the Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, an October gift from A Noise Within to the playwright’s many fans, and even for those like this reviewer who’d prefer it if Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle decalogy didn’t run a hefty three hours each, this is easily one of his most entertaining and powerful works.
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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH


It’s hard to imagine a finer revival of Thornton Wilder’s 20th-century American classic The Skin Of Our Teeth than the one now enrapturing audiences at A Noise Within.
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MISALLIANCE


George Bernard Shaw fans won’t find a more sparklingly performed or exquisitely designed production of Misalliance than the one now playing at A Noise Within, and even if like me you find Shaw plays overly long and talky, this one’s suddenly zippy second act will have you singing its praises.
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SWEENEY TODD


Julia Rodriguez-Elliot’s brilliantly innovative direction and Cassandra Marie Murphy’s spectacular star turn as Mrs. Lovett top the reasons not to miss Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street at A Noise Within.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM


Nobody does William Shakespeare with more originality and flair than A Noise Within, case in point their dazzlingly designed and prodigiously performed re-envisioning of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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THE BLUEST EYE

Performances are uniformly topnotch and the A Noise Within season opener is imaginatively directed and stylishly designed. I only wish I had enjoyed Lydia R. Diamond’s undoubtedly faithful stage adaptation of Toni Morrison’s downer of a novel The Bluest Eye even half as much as the Grade A treatment it’s been given.
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THE BOOK OF WILL


A race against time to preserve the words of the world’s greatest playwright before they fade from memory propels Lauren Gunderson’s The Book Of Will, the fascinating, illuminating, crowd-pleasing latest from A Noise Within.
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KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN


You may have read Manuel Puig’s novel. You might have watched its Oscar-winning movie adaptation. If you’re a musical theater buff, you’ve probably seen it set to the songs of Kander and Ebb. But chances are you haven’t experienced the powerful theatrical two-hander Puig himself adapted from his book, just one of many reasons not to miss Kiss Of The Spider Woman’s stunningly acted, directed, and designed debut at A Noise Within.
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