Lakewood Playhouse Opens Season 81 With Entertaining ‘Biloxi Blues’
Every writer puts a bit of him or her self into everything that comes from pen or keyboard. You just […]
Comedy/Drama
“Night Music” a Relational Farce at Tacoma Little Theatre
When Stephen Sondheim (from the book by Hugh Wheeler) opened “A Little Night Music” on Broadway in 1973, it was
Miss Bennet- A Roaring Success
Miss Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy may have gotten their happily ever after some two hundred years ago, but
Skylight-Insightful and Funny
Battle of the sexes: A Nouveau Riche woos a Do-Gooder.
The date, 1995, when David Hare’s play Skylight, now playing at ACT theatre, first opened in London is highly significant, being the twilight years of the glorious reign of Thatcherism. In many ways, the play, ostensibly about whether a couple will rekindle their relationship, is actually a metaphor for two different perspectives to the Thatcher years. Right down to the Tesco “carrier bag” the details and especially the wit are very English, but it has universal resonance