BWW Review: TAP'S Tender THE GIN GAME Knocks on a Tragic Battle Of Cards and Wills
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- Sep 12, 2016
Knock on the card table and the Gin player who does so wins the game if ten points or less remain in their hand. Knock on Third Avenue Playhouse's door in Sturgeon Bay to appreciate their new production of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize wining play The Gin Game. In this fascinating battle of wills and wits, Weller and Fonsia fight for their dignity in a dilapidated nursing home, where the nurses become condescending and the Methodist church choir continually sings to entertain them.
Peninsula Players Host Free Reading of 'WHO AM I THIS TIME?'
by Tyler Peterson
- Mar 28, 2016
? Peninsula Players Theatre will present a reading of "Who Am I This Time? (& Other Conundrums of Love)" by Aaron Posner, adapted from stories by Kurt Vonnegut at Bjorklunden at 7590 Boynton Lane, Baileys Harbor at 7p.m., Monday, April 4. Posner's charming comedy explores love, pure and complicated, by weaving short stories from Vonnegut's early masterpiece "Welcome to the Monkey House." Join the Players reading of comedic love stories that explores, with warm hilarity, human foibles in a small town. Admission is free.
BWW Reviews: TAP'S Captivating STEEL MAGNOLIAS Bridges Tears and Laughter
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- Aug 5, 2015
The year is 1987 on an April Saturday at Truvy Jones' beauty salon in a rural parish of Louisiana. Shelby Eatenton will marry Jackson Latercherie surrounded by nine bridesmaids in her favorite color pink instead of the peaches and cream colors her mother M'Lynn Eatenton prefers. With this as the opening scene, Robert Harling's iconic Steel Magnolias ticklesthe funny bones and heartstrings in a way similar to how Shelby joyfully touches her world with pink at Truvy's. Owner Truvy succintly says what she appreciates every Saturday morning in her salon, "Laughter through tears is my very favorite emotion."