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…
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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…
You’ve got a friend in Beef & Boards musical
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…
‘Yonkers’ cast is fully committed to staging a play with depth & charm
Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical Lost in Yonkers opened on Broadway in 1991, going on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award. It certainly is one of the…
Which weighs more: truth or doubt?
The Hyperion Theatre’s latest endeavor, John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable, opening today, Jan. 25, owns many accolades including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for…
Not your ordinary community theater ‘Christmas Carol’ play
Thursday night found Mrs. K and me at the Basile Westfield Playhouse for opening night of Daniel Sullivan’s 1991 play, Inspecting Carol. Director Kelly Keller writes that he looked for…
Bringing the magic of a 1950s Christmas to modern audiences
Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre concludes its 50th anniversary season with Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Based on the eponymous 1954 film (which starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen),…
When Black Friday comes . . .
By KEN KLINGENMEIER Well, the season for giving is nearly upon us. The companies that sell things are telling us so – some of them have been telling us so…