If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then this reviewer saw a sweet and warmhearted production of a classic Broadway favorite with fine adult talent and beautiful children singing and dancing their hearts out.
The St. Mark’s Players cast does full justice to some of the best duet and ensemble music of the last few decades on Broadway, in a thoroughly satisfying production of Simon and Norman’s 1991 musical version of the classic children’s story, The Secret Garden.
Last Saturday night, the Puppet Company presented its sixth Playhouse Puppetry Slam! This entertaining event featured puppeteers from all over the East Coast, who presented puppet works in several styles.
Faction of Fools questions sophistry while venerating Shakespeare even as they serve him up medium rare.
A night out at RCP is a bargain and its August: Osage County can readily compete with the tour that came to the Kennedy Center two Christmases ago.
Your unambitious reviewer recommends this show and warrants that, if nothing else, the worth of the ticket price to this show is bound up in the relief at not having to clean up the mess on stage at the end of this very funny play.
In sum, McLean’s Deathtrap was an agreeable evening. It mixed comedy with thrills, though not always successfully.
The 39 Steps was an engaging farce played well. Don’t go into this trying to figure out who the spy is, go into this expecting to have a great time.
Hairspray is good; it is solid. There are some top-notch performances and some WOW moments, but it is not quite the same home run that the theatre nailed in their last several shows.
People who enjoy tuning into the exploits of Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot on the PBS Mystery series will enjoy Little Theater of Alexandria’s take on Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution.