Massini’s dialogue is genius with real, raw emotion traded by factory walkers who, while they may seem different from one another, share the desire to keep their jobs and pay their bills.
Marisa Licata at Birdland shows she has it all: glamour, sheer talent, brilliance, and power, and is a blazing artist of her generation.
A refreshing comedy show of newly minted comics, the latest graduates from the Women Only Stand-Up took the stage in a talent scout’s comic store dream come true.
Jazz, avant-garde music, and dance reinforce dramatic meaning in Help at the Shed Theater, a comfortable new space.
Porter revises the tragic comedy of The Life, a story of the world’s oldest profession based out of Times Square in NYC in the 70s.
Set in a tacky rental in Palm Springs, the action takes place today – this weekend. A group of men puts together a post-pandemic getaway.
The journey of our lives, searching for answers to explain our past, present, and future, is comparable to Merriam-Websters’s definition of sand being “the moments of a lifetime.” Characters Angela, Odessa, and Adah hunt for answers on navigating humanity in sandblasted. Audiences will laugh as they relate to life’s subtle emotions exposed throughout this production by playwright Charly Evon Simpson.
Into the Breeches opens the story at the Providence Oberon Theater which is quiet and gloomy and where Maggie Dalton believes she can assemble women to perform Shakespeare’s male leads.
This is “Being Alive” as Bobbie sings, ending the production for this generation. What a genius is Sondheim to create a piece that can be transformed and adapted so no one can say they changed this or that – it simply morphs, and each person takes away their own lessons, or not.
This fantastic sold-out event warmed the heart and charmed the soul. The characters were delightfully conceived and presented by Mujahid Abdul-Rashid (Hoke Coleburn), Sara Morsey (Daisy Werthan), and Jason Parrish (Boolie Werthan). If you’ve seen the 1989 film, it’s clear that the Florida Rep presentation better captures the emotional and memorable qualities of author Alfred Uhry’s work.
