Posts Tagged ‘tolucan times’
OLD GLORY: 100% Sweet
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Director Carri Sullens elicits performances that flow with cross-currents of hardship and fury, yet with a delicacy that’s almost amiable. Ormeny and Gardner excel with these gifts. And the latent [...]
THE UNEXPECTED MAN: 67% Sweet – UPDATED
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I wish I could say that the play’s culmination is worth the investment of the slow buildup or that the enjoyment of art, as life, is in the journey, [...]
BROADS, THE MUSICAL: 50% Bittersweet – UPDATED
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I loved the four gals playing the Broads – all talented – but the show needs a major overhaul. Too many jokes are tired old cliches – and singing about [...]
CALLIOPE ROSE: 75% Sweet – UPDATED
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“Calliope Rose” features innovative and clever staging. Writer and director Bill Sterritt’s script contains some heady concepts but does not neglect the emotional quotient. It is a fascinating glimpse of [...]
THE PRICE: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
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Miller’s characters all seem to struggle with responsibilities and guilt. This play offers the same type of individuals, but because of its long, drawn-out and repetitive dialogue, it is not [...]
LOVE IN BLOOM: 100% Sweet
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It was as if we were watching Shakespeare set to music with its Faerie King Orion (Chris DeCarlo) and Faerie Queen Talia (Evelyn Rudie) at the helm of Love in [...]
SIDHE: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
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Full of dark turns, Noble’s story is so packed with tension and conflict that at times it’s hard to believe only four characters are taking part. Not every twist is [...]
A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Delasante derisively sings “You Are My Sunshine” at various points throughout the play, and that song along with a token prayer at play’s end cast a heavy cloud over our [...]
DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD: 100% Sweet
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Perhaps it was the long-awaited dawning of the sunshine on Saturday morning, or the breath of refreshingly honest air each moment the actors shared, but I felt uplifted by the [...]
WISDOM 2116: 100% Sweet
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In fact, some 55 years ago, in honor of his dear friends actors Charles Laughton and wife Elsa Lanchester, he penned the sci-fi piece, now titled, Wisdom 2116 for them [...]
