Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Audience pleasing JOSEPH @ Beck Center

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My first exposure to  JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT  was ironically at Beck Center, where I recently saw their newest edition...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

World Premiere of A LIGHT IN THE NIGHT: A HANUKKAH PLAY by Tailspinner Children’s Theater

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The little children sat, laid on, or snuggled with the pillows that were wisely placed on the floor of the Stonehill Auditorium at the Jewis...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

HAIRSPRAY is at Connor Palace as part of Huntington Broadway series

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  The farcical, yet message-loaded  HAIRSPRAY,  is the type of musical that in a bad production falls flat, but in a good production the aud...
Monday, December 04, 2023

BLACK NATIVITY leaves audience joyously singing praises of Afrocentric holiday musical

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    Langston Hughes, the author of BLACK NATIVITY, now on stage at the Allen Theatre, in a joint production between Karamu, the country’s ol...
Sunday, December 03, 2023

Kleenex required for charming, melodramatic LITTLE WOMEN at Dobama

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  Author Louisa May Alcott created relatable characters in 19 th  century novels. Her writing style greatly impacted American literature.   ...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Uneven PIPPIN somewhat disappoints at Baldwin Wallace University

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In the Fall of 1971, while chaperoning a group of college students to New York, I saw  PIPPIN , the Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics), Rog...
Tuesday, November 07, 2023

TROUBLE IN MIND, is a rich experience that is disturbing and thought-provoking!

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  The late-Alice Childress, the author of  TROUBLE IN MIND , now being staged by Seat of the Pants Productions, was an American novelist, pl...
Friday, November 03, 2023

GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY of Key Bank Broadway Series is not a typical musical

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  David Greene, the Senior Vice President of Programming at Playhouse Square, informs theater-goers in his program notes for  GIRL FROM THE ...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Astounding CABARET compels at School of Theatre and Dance of Kent State

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  On a mid-December evening in 1966, as I walked down the aisle to my mezzanine seat in the third row of the Broadhurst Theatre in New York ...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Artificial Intelligence trend makes CPH’S MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN even more thought-provoking!

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    With the recent uptake in information about Artificial Intelligence, the creation of a monster becomes more real and probably scarier th...