By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When Arthur Miller debuted The Crucible in 1953, the nation was emerging from the dark and sinister times of accusations and recriminations known as McCarthyism. The historical drama based on the Salem Witch Trials, but also fictionalized, was intended to bring comparisons from the past to the…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Playwright Michael Frayn claims he got the inspiration to write Noises Off in 1970 while watching a comedy he had written unfold backstage. It occurred to him in several ways that much more of the action off stage was the stuff of a better comedy as actors…
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…
