Aurora Theatre Co Opens 18th Season With AWAKE AND SING! 8/21 - 9/27
by BWW News Desk - Aug 21, 2009
Aurora Theatre Company opens its 18th season, focusing on 'family and fortune,' with Clifford Odets' classic Depression-era drama AWAKE AND SING! Bay Area theater veteran Joy Carlin (Jack Goes Boating, Hysteria, The Price), who first directed this play for Berkeley Repertory Theatre 24 years ago, revisits this landmark drama for Aurora.
Aurora Theatre Co Opens 18th Season With AWAKE AND SING! 8/21 - 9/27
by Ali Leskowitz - Jul 15, 2009
Aurora Theatre Company opens its 18th season, focusing on 'family and fortune,' with Clifford Odets' classic Depression-era drama AWAKE AND SING! Bay Area theater veteran Joy Carlin (Jack Goes Boating, Hysteria, The Price), who first directed this play for Berkeley Repertory Theatre 24 years ago, revisits this landmark drama for Aurora.
John Herrera Anchors the Engaging, Tricky 'Medium at Large'
by Paul W. Thompson - Oct 22, 2008
After extensive development in New York at the York Theatre and the Vineyard Theatre, the world premiere of the musical 'The Medium at Large' took place Sunday afternoon, October 19, 2008, at the Village Players Performing Arts Center in Oak Park, Illinois, just over Chicago's western border. Starring Tony Award nominee John Herrera (Neville in 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood') as the titular spiritualist, the show shows promise in negotiating a tricky premise and an even trickier payoff.
'Syracuse' Adaptation is Oakbrook's 3rd Straight Homer!
by Paul W. Thompson - Aug 16, 2008
Young producers Kyle and Drew DeSantis and Artistic Director William Osetek are on a roll with their Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace revisal of Rodgers and Hart's 'The Boys from Syracuse.'
A Christmas Story: Life Lessons from a Radio Cowboy
by Nancy Grossman - Dec 5, 2007
Stage adaptation brings to life all of the quirky characters and wacky happenings of 1983 classic film. Be forewarned that a Red Ryder BB Gun is fired during the show and someone could shoot their eye out.
Oscar Poster Looks to Broadway
by James Sims - Dec 19, 2006
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed Tuesday the 79th Academy Awards poster design, which features dozens of the most memorable and quotable lines from motion pictures, including a handful of films adapted from Broadway hits...
Room Service: Four Star Entertainment
by Michael Dale - Nov 29, 2006
I dare you to find a funnier two hours in town than the Pecadillo Theatre Company's new production of this rib tickling show biz farce
Room Service: Four Star Entertainment
by Michael Dale - Jul 14, 2006
I dare you to find a funnier two hours in town than the Pecadillo Theatre Company's new production of this 1937 show biz farce
REVIEW: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: Survival of the Fittest
by James Howard - Feb 21, 2006
The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre presents Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Fridays (8PM), Saturdays (8PM) and Sundays (2PM) through March 11. Information and will call tickets: 410-752-1225 or www.spotlighters.org. Purchase on-line at www.missiontix.com. Reservations recommended.
'Thank you and good night'
by Michael Dale - Jan 22, 2004
With those words and one last musical flourish, the final performance at Henry Miller's Theatre came to an end