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What A Do offers beautiful retelling of classic story

Review October 13, 2013
Strong women in real-life situations are what opened the What A Do season of classics. Set in 1863, "Little Women" is an adaptation by Marisha... Continue Reading

Williamston opens with a haunting ghost story

Review October 13, 2013
By Michael H. Margolin Plots unfolding within plots, unreality seeping through the cracks of English Edwardian sensibility, the deaths of young women and children, perhaps... Continue Reading

Communication rifts a la Ringwald

Review October 13, 2013
By Carolyn Hayes Verbal communication is supposed to set the human race apart from lesser species, but in practice, it can cause as many problems... Continue Reading

Familiar material gets slick (and tasty) treatment at Turkeyville

Review October 06, 2013
Somewhere there is a fine line between "feast" and "too much of a good thing." At Cornwell's Turkeyville, there is no doubt that the food... Continue Reading

WWSD (What Would Sherlock Do?)

Review October 06, 2013
It has an impressive set, striking costumes, capable actors, a classic character (Sherlock Holmes) as inspiration, and a script by a playwright with an enviable... Continue Reading

‘An Iliad’ casts a long shadow

Review October 05, 2013
By Michael H. Margolin "An Iliad," in a version by actor Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson, takes Homer's classic, tragic tale and transports its retelling... Continue Reading

‘Evil Dead’ is alive and kicking

Review October 03, 2013
By Dana Casadei Black garbage bags covered the first six rows of seats, there were "blood stains" on the curtain made of sheets, and yet... Continue Reading

JET blasts through intellectual night of comedy

Review September 29, 2013
Energy crackled through every moment of The Jewish Ensemble Theatre's three-hour production of "The Sisters Rosensweig" by Wendy Wasserstein. JET opened its 25th anniversary season... Continue Reading

Another fun night of theater at Tibbits

Review September 29, 2013
Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten know how to please an audience. They create plays that string together one-liners, put Southern women in funny,... Continue Reading

DeBruyne makes for good ‘Company’

Review September 28, 2013
By Carolyn Hayes Stephen Sondheim's musically and structurally ambitious "Company" (music and lyrics by Sondheim, book by George Furth) dominated the Tony Awards over four... Continue Reading

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