You Can’t Take It With You opened on Broadway in December 1936 and went on to win the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. (A film version won the Academy Award…
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There aren’t very many stories more familiar to my generation than The Wizard of Oz. The 1939 film version starring Judy Garland was traditional Thanksgiving Day television fare throughout our…
Ken Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo came to Broadway in 1995, starring Carol Burnett in her return after a 30-year absence. One of Ludwig’s numerous farces, Moon Over Buffalo follows patterns…
A.R. Gurney is well-known for his plays The Dining Room, Love Letters, and The Dinner Party. His comedy Sylvia opened off-Broadway in 1995. The story of an unusual romantic triangle…
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, which opened this week at Indianapolis’ Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, is celebrating its 73rd year of existence. Opening on Broadway in March…
Humans are flawed. Language is raw. Art imitates life. Jason Miller’s 1972 play That Championship Season – which won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the 1973…
Alfred Uhry’s play Driving Miss Daisy started as off-Broadway fare in 1987, winning the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It wasn’t long before Hollywood took notice and the Oscar winning…
Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT) presents R. Eric Thomas’ The Folks at Home, a sitcom-patterned comedy recalling any number of favorite TV series from our pasts. Director Reggie D. White unwraps…
My research of Epilogue Players’ Foolish Fishgirls and the Pearl began at a standing start. I am not at all familiar with the script, the playwright – one Barbara Pease…
Beef & Boards continues its very tuneful 2024 season with Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, a bio-jukebox stroll down musical memory lane for folks of my generation or anyone who…