After hundreds of performances and several remounts, David Catlin’s Lookingglass Alice still thrills audiences with its whimsy, humor, and heart. Trimmed to a tight 90 minutes without an intermission, Lauren Hirte continues her amazing performance as Alice. The show remains as fresh and vibrant as the 2005 original.
Theo Ubique, under Fred Anzevino’s leadership, returns to their cabaret roots by paying homage to composer/songwriter Harold Arlen. This revue contains many of the finest songs from the 30’s- 40’s and 50’s including “Over the Rainbow,” “Stormy Weather,” “Get Happy,” “It’s Only a Paper Moon” and “I’ve Got the World on a String” among the 37 songs with music by Arlen in collaboration with many of the finest lyricists of the era.
This engagingly funny and poignant work is a refreshing traditional Irish comedy. It is a tightly written and polished work by Jim Lynch that reflects the sharp eye of director John Mossman and the efforts of the creative folks at The Artistic Home who have invested two years assisting Lynch in the play’s development. The result is a most entertaining and sophisticated work about the raw rural poor inhabitants of the West of Ireland
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
Entertainment 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
From 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.
Dawkins 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.
Jim 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.
The six main characters are delights to watch and bring a great deal of energy to their roles. Patrick Tierney is a solid Danny, Jason Jackson deftly handles the role of Nick, Christine Pfenninger brings a certain special realism to Pam and Hannah Sielatycki’s Lizzie is pure dynamite