Studio 3’s Rapunzel is disarming and an innocent way in a guilty world to spend some time with children…preferably someone else’s….before we trade them to The Witch for broccoli.
By today’s standard, this is reality show fare dressed up as art and nothing shocking or unbelievable is occurring at all. The ending is a let down, but that seems what was intended all along.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then this reviewer saw a sweet and warmhearted production of a classic Broadway favorite with fine adult talent and beautiful children singing and dancing their hearts out.
Faction of Fools questions sophistry while venerating Shakespeare even as they serve him up medium rare.
A night out at RCP is a bargain and its August: Osage County can readily compete with the tour that came to the Kennedy Center two Christmases ago.
Your unambitious reviewer recommends this show and warrants that, if nothing else, the worth of the ticket price to this show is bound up in the relief at not having to clean up the mess on stage at the end of this very funny play.
As Holocaust testimony and memoir fade into lore, our new challenge emerges in the first person survival stories of hostages and terrorism.
On the Waterfront is a play well worth catching at TACT. The eternal story of conscience, loyalty and martyrdom still resonates in our contemporary times of moral ambivalence.
The language of dance and mine is universal and this company has made theatre something worth paying for again.
This Mamet production didn’t disappoint. Plus ca change, c’est la meme chose.