Fade - 2017 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 20

Primary Stages announced their upcoming 32nd Season on March 14 at a champagne reception celebrating the Centennial of the birth of late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Primary Stages collaborator, Horton Foote.

Amy Herzog's family drama (albeit a drama with a number of very funny moments) 4000 MILES is unobtrusively generating a thoughtful, low-key alternative to the outsized HAIRSPRAY (already a sellout at 'Big Sister' Playhouse on the Square just a block or so away); and it's a safe bet that a number of theatre-going Memphians are already trekking south to DeSoto Family Theatre's epic presentation of LES MISERABLES. However, this intelligent, intimate little piece is currently providing a rewarding alternative at Theatre Works, quietly nestled across from the parking garage at Overton Square.

Acrophobia is definitely not an asset to flying over circus rings or swinging from one trapeze to the other. Rather, constant practice and determination led trapeze performer now author Lee Stath, to share how his mentor made one of the best catchers in the circus world out of a reluctant school teacher. In 'She Flies Through The Air,' Stath divulges the gritty inside and the lusty life on a circus train or inside the circus' sweaty tin truck along with the priceless love he found while doing his passion.