This 95 minute production (no intermission) directed by P.Marston Sullivan, condenses the play down to a time that is easily sustainable for most audiences with a cast of six actors. BoHo is known for its quality sets in making the space appear much larger than it really is and Anders Jacobson and Judy Radovsky have done a tremendous job in making a 25 foot by 16 foot area drawing room of a large estate seem real
Read MoreEntertainment attorney Charles Grippo’s new farce is a dud. The matinee I attended found no one laughing – a bad sign for a farce. Despite the cast working frantically to garner any humor in Grippo’s script, there wasn’t much there to harvest
Read MoreFrom the Prologue, we get into the spirit with Willmorth’s rhyming verse with references to King Phycus being a found play performed by “…six players, mostly hacks…”
While Shakespeare patrons will cherish King Phycus, the references still will get newbies to The Bard to laugh because they are clearly and cleverly written and presented. This is one funny good time
Suicide, Incorporated is a finely polished, hauntingly engrossing 90 minutes of theatre. It starts out as a sardonic look at suicide as a business opportunity and ends up a refreshing glimpse into the ultimate spirit of man…Joshua Rollins and Michael Patrick Thornton bond in a moving manner that presents tw0 souls deciding to be strong enough to feed off each other in an attempt to ease their pain.
Read MoreDawkins vividly depicts the drudgery of someone trying to sort out mislabeled and wrongfully addressed letters. This highlights our inability to communicate both with the written word and in person.
Read MoreJim Corti has remounted Sugar with a film in progress motif with terrific staging (set design by Brian Sidney Bembridge) and featuring a spirited cast of gifted comic actors and stellar voices. Jennifer Knox plays Sugar with a cuteness reminiscent but not imitative of Marilyn Monroe.
Read MoreMolusi’s story is both comic and sad as he tells of the closing and destruction of the shopping center that allowed his community to have employment and a place to buy the goods they needed. He also speaks of his childhood sweetheart, who for many years he saw as something other than he remembered her.
Read MoreLight Opera Works sure knows how to mount Gilbert & Sullivan’s operettas. Their latest production is a wonderful production of what this reporter believes is Gilbert & Sullivan’s finest work – The Yeomen of the Guard. Yeomen contains all of the wit and satire expected in a G & S operetta yet it has the sweet charm and lovable characters with one in particular that brings us to tears at the end – Jack Point, played with comic aplomb and empathy by George Andrew Wolff.
Read MoreWhile there is promise here in Dana Lynn Formby’s play, it has hints of Lanford Wilson and Tracy Letts in the emotionally charged family dynamics, it develops too slowly with all the early speechifying monologues.
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