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BWW Reviews: HAIRSPRAY Could Tease Out a Little More Originality at Broad Brook Opera House
John Waters' tale of hair hoppers and integrationists receives a workman-like production in Broad Brook....
BWW Reviews: Gurney's ANCESTRAL VOICES Blends Nostalgia with Modern Questions About Family, Acceptance
One of A.R. Gurney's lesser known works, ANCESTRAL VOICES, is getting a run over at Music Theatre of Connecticut, where the intimate setting is just right for the nostalgic look at one family, seen through the eyes of a boy growing up in Buffalo before World War II....
BWW Reviews: ALMOST MAINE Offers Warm Love Stories with a Touch of Frostbite
The play has cool charm, blustery humor and just enough frostbite to keep it from being too sweetly romantic....
BWW Reviews: Uncle Fester Takes Flight in THE ADDAMS FAMILY
A new non-equity tour of The Adams Family kicks off at New Haven's historic Shubert Theater....
BWW Reviews: Good Acting, Direction, Make All the Difference for STONES IN HIS POCKETS
When I first saw Marie Jones's play STONES IN HIS POCKETS, I wasn't reviewing, but was working as the Front of House Manager at the Bushnell where Bronson Pinchot was starring in the tour stop there in 2002. About half of the audience left at intermission, most of them asking what the play was about...
BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL Rides the Mountains in Bridgeport
What's normal?...
BWW Reviews: Spirit of Broadway's DANI GIRL is Moving, Surprising and Funny
DANI GIRL is chemo-riffic....
BWW Reviews: Playhouse on Park's MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS Wilts Under the Spotlight
Trying to be a farce and a message play, MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS is neither fish nor fowl and only partially funny....
BWW Reviews: CLOUD NINE Time Travels at Yale January 22-26
Caryl Churchill's gender-bending, time-traveling farce is liberated by the Yale School of Drama....
BWW Reviews: BREATH & IMAGINATION Shouts a Jubilant Song
Humor, drama, history and passion are keys used to play a lovely chord as Roland hears music in everything he does and Tresnjak is the conductor who puts visual artistry to the emotions and plot....
BWW Reviews: Bridgeport's Downtown Cabaret Children's Theatre Updates BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Beauty, Princess Leia, the Beast and the Jedi curse!...
BWW Reviews: JANUARY JOINER is Long on Hope, Short on Results at Long Wharf Theatre
Why can't we be happy just as we are?...
BWW Reviews: Hole in the Wall Theater Packs a Lot in URANUS
New Britain's quirky theatre blasts off with ATTACK OF THE SPACE NYMPHOS FROM URANUS...
BWW Reviews: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Brings Legends to Life -- Almost
It's 1956 and Carl Perkins (Connecticut native James Barry) is trying to record 'Matchbox,' the song he hopes will put him back at the top of the charts. Providing some distraction during the recording session (and adding to the music), however, are showoff Jerry Lee Lewis (Benjamin Goddard) and leg...
BWW Reviews: Enjoy Some Christmas Cheer from a Disgruntled Elf in THE SANTALAND DIARIES
Kready, dressed in full elf garb that incudes candy-cane tights (Margaret Charbonneau, costume design), often reclining in an ornate Santa throne decorated with a background of Christmas trees (Michael Lenaghan, set design), brings personalities to life with recreations of SantaLand moments under th...
BWW Reviews: CONNetic Dance's NUTCRACKER SUITE & SPICY More Mild Than Wild
With NUTCRACKER SUITE & SPICY, a critic learns Trix are for kids....
BWW Reviews: Sarah Ruhl's DEAR ELIZABETH, Play About Poets, is Poetry Itself
It's amazingly sad yet funny, intense yet whimsical, deep yet obvious, revealing yet obscure -- all at the same time and both Fisher and Mays capture our imaginations as they creating characters experiencing the wide range of emotions....
BWW Reviews: Playhouse On Park's DRIVING MISS DAISY a Comfortable Ride
Playhouse on Park's somewhat bumpy production of DRIVING MISS DAISY proves to be smart holiday programming....
BWW Reviews: Not Dead Yet: THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE at Long Wharf Theatre
A noble, but flawed adaptation of Frank Marcus's trailblazing play....
BWW Reviews: Parade Scene Highlights Seven Angel's MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
The parade seen is terrifically stages with marching bands, entertaining acts and the famous Macy's balloons all depicted while Music Director Richard DeRosa and his five-man band play a score by Meredith "Music Man" Wilson that includes "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." Alexander Butle...
BWW Reviews: Hartford Stage Showcases Ghosts in A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Right from the start, Michael Wilson's adaptation of Charles Dicken's A CHRISTMAS CAROL makes it clear that its subtitle, "A Ghost of a Christmas Story," should be taken seriously. Not only do the four ghosts we expect pay visits, but others dance, fly, float and slither across the stage in a satisf...
BWW Reviews: CT Rep's ROMEO & JULIET is Timeless Tale of Star-Crossed Lovers with a Few Twists
What stands out about this production is the really terrific fight choreography by Greg Webster. Steel clashes and extended sword battles rage in some of the most thrilling, realistic looking onstage battles you'll ever see. One battle breathtakingly stops, only to resume after intermission....
BWW Reviews: It’s a Good Show, CHARLIE BROWN, at Broad Brook Opera House
Charles Schulz's 'Peanuts' characters return in a candy-coated confection at Broad Brook Opera House....
BWW Reviews: Yale Rep Takes a Revolutionary Look at MARIE ANTOINETTE
In this sumptuous, eye-pleasing version of the last days of Marie Antoinette, Adjmi interjects modern thoughts into history from France's bloody Revolution to create a remarkable, thought-provoking and witty theatrical experience.
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