by Roseann Cane The jubilation of the audience at the Capital Repertory Theatre’s Million Dollar Quartet opening night was unmistakable. From the beginning of the show, the hoots, hollers, and foot stomping rose steadily, and by the show’s end, the crowd, roaring with such delight that they overwhelmed the music,…
by Roseann Cane In 1941, the German atomic physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his former mentor, Danish physicist Neils Bohr, and Bohr’s wife Margrethe, in their home in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen. Both men were to give conflicting reports of what happened during the meeting, and this has long been the subject…
by Roseann Cane Written in 2017, with a Broadway premiere in 2019, Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me garnered a slew of awards and nominations, including the honor of being a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for drama. After seeing the show at Capital Repertory Theatre, I can…
by Roseann Cane Today one of the most frequently performed operas in the world, La Bohème premiered in 1896 in Turin, conducted by the 28-year-old Arturo Toscanini. Set in Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1830s, it focuses on four young, impoverished bohemian artists, Marcello, a painter (baritone Benjamin Taylor);…
by Roseann Cane For 25 years since its premiere in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Honky Tonk Angels has been produced in venues nationwide. Capital Repertory Theatre’s glitzy, extravagant celebration of country music, popular and traditional, is definitely a country music lover’s delight. Ted Swindley’s rather thin story presents a showcase for spectacular…
by Roseann Cane We first see Daniel (Andy Lucien), a 30-something event planner for a major bookstore chain, as he bursts into the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) of a leading hospital. In the center of the stage is an isolette (a plastic-encased crib equipped to maintain temperature control and…
by Roseann Cane The Barrington Stage Company has opened their season with a play that’s a mesmerizing punch in the gut. I urge you to experience it. Eddie Jaku, the man at the center of the play, was born Abraham Jakubbowicz in Leipzig, Germany in 1920. As playwright Mark St.…
by Roseann Cane Prepare to be dazzled…if, like me, you’re fortunate enough to see theRep’s current production of The Wizard of Oz. I always expect to enjoy a first-rate evening of theater when I attend a show at theRep, but I’m so familiar with the film and various stage adaptations…
