Previews: THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS at Essex Community Players
by Lesley Becker - May 2, 2024
A mother’s crushing struggle for sanity while grappling with economic and social realities that seem stacked against her and and her youngest daughter’s science project growing marigolds from seeds that have been exposed to radiation, or “gamma rays' collide in an inevitable collusion of the mother's delusions and the daughter's reality.
The daughter's resilience allows her to thrive even with a toxic home life, in a way similar to the marigolds in her science experiment, which survive radiation exposure and produce beautiful flowers. Her resilience redeems hope and is the bright light at the heart of the play.
TASTINGS: SIX SHORT ORIGINAL PLAYS at Shelburne And Snow Farm Vineyards
by Lesley Becker - Mar 22, 2023
Snow Farm Vineyard and Winery and Shelburne Vineyard will feature new works by four playwrights in “Tastings – An Evening of Six Short Plays”. There’s something for everyone with intertwining stories of hope, new love, rediscovery of self, the impulsive search for love, betrayal, and for something different – a famous lake monster!
Photo Flash: Waterbury Playhouse Presents THE NETHER
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 30, 2018
Waterbury Festival Playhouse is known for doing shows that are intense and that you'll talk about for hours after you've seen them. Jennifer Haley's, The Nether, is just such a show, a cunning yet creepy play about the not too distant future. Haley, a Los Angeles writer who specializes in the ethics of technology, has created an intricate drama and a haunting thriller set in what may be the near future that makes us question what constitutes crime in a world of relative realities. The Internet has morphed into the Nether and as her characters spend more time in the Nether than they do in "real life", the distinction between the real world and the virtual realm begins to blur.
Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato & More to Perform on Season Finale of THE VOICE
by BWW
News Desk - Dec 19, 2017
Superstar recording artists Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, N.E.R.D., Charlie Puth, Sia and season 12 winner Chris Blue are set to perform on the live two-hour Today, Dec. 19 season finale (9-11 p.m. ET/PT) of NBC's four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series THE VOICE.
Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato & More to Perform on Season Finale of THE VOICE
by Caryn Robbins - Dec 15, 2017
Superstar recording artists Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, N.E.R.D., Charlie Puth, Sia and season 12 winner Chris Blue are set to perform on the live two-hour Tuesday, Dec. 19 season finale (9-11 p.m. ET/PT) of NBC's four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series THE VOICE.
Maroon 5 to Perform New Hit Single 'What Lovers Do' on THE VOICE
by BWW
News Desk - Nov 21, 2017
Three-time Grammy Award-winning multiplatinum band Maroon 5, led by frontman and coach Adam Levine, will perform the hit single What Lovers Do from their new album Red Pill Blues on the Today, Nov. 21 (8-10 p.m.) live telecast of NBC's four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series THE VOICE.
Maroon 5 to Perform New Hit Single 'What Lovers Do' on THE VOICE
by Caryn Robbins - Nov 16, 2017
Three-time Grammy Award-winning multiplatinum band Maroon 5, led by frontman and coach Adam Levine, will perform the hit single What Lovers Do from their new album Red Pill Blues on the Tuesday, Nov. 21 (8-10 p.m.) live telecast of NBC's four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series THE VOICE.
BWW Reviews: Horsing Around with WARHORSE
by Finny (Amanda Finn) - Jun 12, 2014
A great poet named Robert Frost once said, 'poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.' WarHorse, in much the same way, is a play that found its words in moments full of 'naysaying' and silence.
BWW Reviews: WARHORSE Prances Onto the Stage of the Music Hall in Kansas City
by Steve Wilson - Apr 2, 2014
With the smooth style and graceful stride of a thoroughbred, Warhorse pranced onto the stage of the Music Hall in Kansas City on Tuesday April 1. From the Broadway Across America series Warhorse is based on a book by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford, and in association with Handspring Puppet Company.
BWW Reviews: PARASITE DRAG Seethes with Family Drama
by Erin McIntyre - Sep 12, 2013
The Waterbury Festival Playhouse offers up something dark this season: Mark Roberts' PARASITE DRAG. ('Parasite drag' is an aeronautical term that refers to the resistance caused by parts of an aircraft that don't contribute to lift.) This psychological drama tells the story of a family ripped apart by a terrible secret - a secret that remains unknown to the audience until close to the play's end.