OMG, this musical is totally top-level!
Legally Blonde originated as a 2001 novel by Amanda Brown, based on Ms. Brown’s experiences as a law student at Stanford University. Miraculously, a film version also came out in…
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Not only can you not take it with you, but you only have one more week to even see it
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…
If ever a wonderful show there was this Beef & Boards show is one because . . .
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…
Buffalo jokes aside, that is some darn fine coffee
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…
But I can love you like nobody can, even better
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…
Beef & Boards takes you to Siam in “The King & I”
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…
A show with no heroes is not for the faint of heart
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…
Get the behind the wheel or call an Uber, but go to this show
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…
“The Folks at Home” is a nifty throwback to when sitcoms were good
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…
Two Mermaids get hustled & open a bed & breakfast
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…