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By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The final production for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s 2022-23 season is Misery, the play written by the late scriptwriter William Goldman, who also famously wrote the scripts for the movie of the same title and is also favorably remembered for penning the cult classic “The Princess […]
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By EDWARD RUBIN Pictures from Home currently running thru April 30 is the most delightful and thought-provoking play currently gracing the Broadway stages at this very moment. Featuring the tried-and-true Danny Burstein, Nathan Lane, and Zoë Wanamaker – three stellar actors at their very best – the play is wowing audiences with loads of laughter, […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) One could argue that T. Lawrence Shannon, the defrocked Episcopal priest who is the central character of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, should be slovenly and out of shape. The play suggests he was quite at home with those potent potables – the rum-cocos […]
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By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) For the second time in less than six months, The Play That Goes Wrong, the hit West End and Broadway award-winning comedy is on the boards in the Greater New Orleans area. Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the comedy is the only one […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) There’s something to be said when a major New Orleans staple like Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is able to been seen with a new wrinkle. The Pulitzer Prize winning play set on a Mississippi Delta plantation is now on the boards at Le […]
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI – As England prepares for its royal coronation in May, Milwaukee audiences have gotten a glimpse of the upcoming festivities with the arrival of the Six national tour. As Six continues its dominance on Broadway, the West End and elsewhere, the U.S. tour is still attracting audiences around the country. […]
By ROY BERKO In the late 1950’s through the 1980s The Theatre of the Absurd theatrical movement was the intellectual rage. Based on the concept of Existentialism which asks, “what happens when human existence lacks meaning or purpose and communication breaks down.” The structure of the plays often centered on the finishing point, being the same as the […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) If artists of one cultural or racial extraction are being considered above others for inclusion at a museum or at gallery shows, is it ever fair to appropriate that culture or race for the purpose of evening the artistic playing field? The fact that playwright James Ijames […]
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI – This Midwest state is currently swept up in a slate of new plays, all part of a project called World Premiere Wisconsin. The project, with multiple sources of funding, is designed to showcase new work in theaters across the state. The first “World Premiere” production to open is Milwaukee […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When it comes to an old chestnut like “Fiddler on the Roof,” the biggest challenge may be in keeping the Joseph Stein book fresh and the music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick vibrant and relevant. This Bartlett Sher-directed production, based on the successful 2016 […]