REVIEW: “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at Fort Salem Theater
by Sierra Pasquale There’s blood on the barber’s chair at Fort Salem Theater! Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim’s darkly thrilling…
REVIEW: “A Fine Family” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Jess Hoffman Sand Lake Center for the Arts is currently offering a truly local production: a musical, titled A Fine Family, written and directed…
REVIEW: “Romeo and Juliet” at Hartford Stage
by Mark G. Auerbach Its a given that Romeo & Juliet is a classic, but Melia Bensussens vision of Shakespeare’s love story brings the classic into the…
REVIEW: “Waitress” at The Majestic Theater
by Jeannie Marlin Woods There is a hominess and sense of Southern hospitality and graciousness in the Majestic Theater’snewest offering, WAITRESS. The Broadway hit musical…
REVIEW: “Polishing Shakespeare” at Bridge Street Theatre
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Typically, I resist reviewing Shakespeare’s plays. I question my understanding and knowledge of the breadth of the Bard’s work to adequately assess…
REVIEW: “Primary Trust” at TheaterWorks Hartford
by Mark G. Auerbach When Primary Trust, Eboni Booth’s triumphant Pulitzer Prize winning drama had its area premiere at Barrington Stage last fall, the buzz was…
REVIEW: “Working” at the Ghent Playhouse
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss I was excited to see the revised version of Working, a Musical by Studs Terkel and adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina…
REVIEW: “Brighton Beach Memoirs” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss I love the work of Neil Simon. In the 1970s and 1980s, his plays were ubiquitous on Broadway. 1983 saw the beginning…