Posts Tagged ‘madeleine shaner’
WIT: 100% Sweet
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Edson’s commentary on American medical practice, however salient, merely lays the groundwork for the play’s most compelling and universal theme: the human struggle not only with mortality’s looming oblivion [...]
CAVE QUEST: 100% Sweet
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Diane Rodriguez’s direction is enhancing yet controlled, allowing both performances to be interesting while maintaining excellent contact with the main theme—which is enlightenment of a kind and, of course, justifiable [...]
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES: 70% Sweet – UPDATED
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All right, given this impressive pedigree, what’s my beef? Well, beyond the play’s passé style, I have trouble with the workmanlike use of the symbolic roses that inspire the title [...]
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
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The script has an unending flow of verbal and physical high jinks but too many sitcom-quality one-liners and a lazy reliance on popular culture for easy laughs. There also is [...]
COUSIN BETTE: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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At least one key performance is over laden with shtick, and some fine-tuning of others is in order. Still, Doukas is terrific, delivering a consummate performance that arouses, for her [...]
To Madeleine Shaner
Hi Madeleine,
One of our Lemon Heads, Giselle Wolf, also a working theatre artist here in town wanted to send you a message. She originally posted it in our comment section [...]
STAGE DOOR: 67% Sweet – UPDATED
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So what’s missing here? Not all the actors are up to the challenges of this production’s style, nor any acting style. Too bad this sinks our complete enjoyment here. [...]
SPIKE HEELS: 100% Sweet
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Rebeck’s comical archetypes – the siren, the bookworm, the prude and the rogue – are cleverly inverted, and the cast, particularly the effectively charming bad boy Dunne, imbue their characters [...]
KINGS OF THE KILBURN HIGH ROAD: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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The setting, the characters, the behavior — a pub, heavy drinking, nastiness — are all quite stereotypical Irish in Jimmy Murphy’s “The Kings of the Kilburn High Road,” receiving its [...]
A SONG AT TWILIGHT: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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In this age of Facebook, Twitter, and texting, where the English language has been reduced to grunts and groans and fractured grammar, Noel Coward has come to the rescue, at [...]
