Author name: Marie Bonfils

Two Outsiders in the South, Before, During and after Civil Rights.

Driving Miss Daisy, originally a Pulitzer Prize winning stage-play by Alfred Uhry, recounts the 25-year relationship ( from 1948-1973) between two outsiders in the South, specifically Atlanta. Boolie, the son of Miss Daisy, insists on hiring a chauffeur for his uninsurable accident prone mother, a wealthy Jewish wide. The chauffeur Hoke is an an amiable, astute African American widower with young grandchildren. But the decision to hire Hoke is over Miss Daisy’s metaphorical dead body.

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99 Layoffs, by Vincent Delaney, opened at the Eulalie Scandiuzzi Space of ACT Theatre on Thurday night. A highly topical multi-media play, it captures the zeitgeist of the past four years. Through a series of sketches, and videos, the audience watches two characters, Louella, (Aimée Bruneau ) and Orson ( K. Brian Neel) as they navigate layoffs, job interviews, job searches, and worst of all: actually working.

Coming of Age Play, muy caliente!!!!!

For all of us, the summer between high school and college was filled with lots of conflicting emotions: relief to be finally finished with high school, anticipation about going to college and taking the first step to make our own way in the world, sadness about leaving home, terror and excitement about what is to come.

Live in the Great Uterus of Womynhood.

It does not take much to make me laugh for a few hours at a time, just two genius comedians, one of the funniest scripts ever written, excellent sound effects and I’m all yours. Theatre Schmeater’s production of Parallel Lives, written by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimi along with two extremely talented actresses, oops, I mean actpersons kept me in stitches for about two hours.

ReAct Theatre’s remount of David Henry Hwang’s 2007 semi-autobiographical comedy, “Yellow Face,” got off to a bit of a shaky

A Jew, A Catholic and a Cripple marooned at Dan Quayle Middle School in small-town Indiana….

If what you like is a serious take on the vicissitudes of adolescence, fast paced witty humor, catchy tunes, youthful energy, excellent choreography then 13, a Musical, is probably for you.

Shakespeare’s War of the Sexes

Greenstage Theatre Company opened its 24th season of outdoor Shakespeare with The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays, in the amphitheatre inSewardPark.

Henry VIII

Greenstage’s production of Henry VIII, directed expertly by Theresa Thurman, is perhaps the best Shakespeare show I have ever seen; although the play itself is deeply flawed.