Category Archives: Reviews
‘Breakup Notebook’: Musical resonates with the lonesome of all
Published: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 By Peter Filichia/For The Star-Ledger Everyone who’s ever been dumped — and doesn’t that include all of us? — is going to adore “The Breakup Notebook.” The new musical at ReVision Theatre in Asbury Park is a complete triumph. Librettist Patricia Cotter and songwriter Lori Scarlett admit in their opening [...]
‘Bakersfield Mist’ clever portrait of class differences
By DEBBIE FORMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER August 16, 2011 WELLFLEET — Maude Gutman’s style of art includes pictures of clowns with bulbous red noses, a plastic Santa and a bookcase full of kitsch she’s picked up at flea markets and thrift shops. But when she decides one day to buy an “ugly” painting as a gag [...]
‘BEST OF ENEMIES’ Clash over Civil Rights
By Larry Murray Berkshire On Stage PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Let there be no doubt that “The Best of Enemies” with Aisha Hinds and John Bedford Lloyd is one of the most important historical plays about America to ever reach the stage. It is also the finest drama I have ever seen at Barrington Stage. It [...]
Barrington’s ‘Best of Enemies’ captures change we can believe in
By Michael Eck Special to the Times Union Published 12:01 a.m., Friday, July 29, 2011 Fact makes fiction more powerful. That’s certainly the case with the world premiere of Mark St. Germain‘s “The Best of Enemies,” now on the boards at Barrington Stage Company. The play — based on the book by Osha Gray Davidson [...]
Theater roundup: From Afghanistan war to Victorian sex
Palm Beach Arts Paper Written by Hap Erstein | 19 May 2011 Whether or not the pen is truly mightier than the sword, playwright Carter W. Lewis is out to prove in his enigmatically titled The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider that slam poetry can trump a mercenary private army. If that sounds like an [...]
