Showing posts with label Blank Canvas Theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blank Canvas Theatre. Show all posts
Saturday, August 24, 2019

“Lobby Hero” at Blank Canvas asks, “What is the moral thing to do?”

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Kenneth Lonergan is noted for writing about decent people who are unexpectedly challenged by issues of ethics.  In his “Lobby Hero,” now o...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

The Toxic Avenger--a slapstick, double entendre farcical delight at Blank Canvas

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Blank Canvas has a niche audience.  They love slasher, off-the-wall, ridiculous plotted plays, especially musicals. The nerdy group th...
Friday, April 12, 2019

“Art” examines the value of friendship and esthetics @ Blank Canvas

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What is art?  What is friendship?  What is the value of a piece of art?  What is the value of friendship?  These are just some of the ques...
Saturday, March 02, 2019

SPIDER WOMAN weaves intriguing web @ Blank Canvas

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Musicals come in different forms.   Musical comedies, such as “ Cinderella ” and “ School of Rock ” intend to ente...
Monday, December 10, 2018

“Special” “Avenue Q” @ Blank Canvas

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It has been said that dying is easy, farce is hard to do!  And, “Avenue Q,” the delightful, satirical, coming of age parable by Robert Lo...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

SWEENEY TODD, Sondheim at his most complicated @ Blank Canvas

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Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the music and lyrics for “Sweeney Todd:  The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” which is now in production at Blan...
Wednesday, December 06, 2017

URINETOWN, bad title, fun show, flushed with success @ Blank Canvas

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 “Urinetown:  The Musical” opened on Broadway in 2001, but its path from lyricist Greg Kotis traveling Europe, encountering a pay toilet, ...
Sunday, October 08, 2017

Farcical, slapstick “The Rocky Horror Show” fun at Blank Canvas

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On June 20, 1973 I had one of my mind-blowing experiences in a theater.  I was in London, the theater broker couldn’t get a ticket for t...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Superb “Equus” filled with passion at Blank Canvas

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In the early 1970s, master wordsmith and playwright Peter Shaffer read a small news story, with little details, about a boy who had blin...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” less than it should be at Blank Canvas

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Want to see a play that has been censored?  No, it’s not “Spamalot,” “The Vagina Monologues,” “Godspell,” or “The Laramie Project” (whi...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

“Floyd Collins” melodramatically spelunkers into eternal fame at Blank Canvas

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  “ Floyd Collins ,” now on stage at Blank Canvas Theatre, isn’t your typical musical.  There is no dancing, no show-stopper production n...
Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Applause, but no standing ovation for CABARET at Blank Canvas, but big time accolades for Allen Cumming in Concert

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Cabaret .  It’s 1931 in Germany, a country of unrest.  We find ourselves at the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy cabaret, a place of decadence and e...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Blank Canvas challenges audience sensibilities with SILENCE! THE MUSICAL

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Pat Ciamacco, the curmudgeon of glee and horror, is at it again.  While it seems almost by chance, the artistic director of Blank Canvas...
Monday, August 08, 2016

GLENGARRY GLENROSS doesn’t close the deal at Blank Canvas

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David Mamet, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of Glengarry Glen Ross, a play which is now on stage at Blank Canvas, ...