REVIEW: “The Last American Newspaper” at Capital Repertory Theatre
by Sierra Pasquale Few institutions have been eulogized as often as the local newspaper, and few of those eulogies come from someone who lived inside…
REVIEW: “Jekyll & Hyde” at SLOC Musical Theater
by Sierra Pasquale Jekyll & Hyde was highly anticipated. Frank Wildhorn’s score went through more workshop productions, concept albums, and regional tryouts than almost any…
REVIEW: “Hamlet” at Shakespeare & Company
by Sierra Pasquale There are few theatrical challenges more daunting than staging Hamlet. Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy has been performed, adapted, dissected, and reinterpreted so…
REVIEW: “Footloose” at Playhouse Stage Company
by Sierra Pasquale There is something wonderfully timeless about Footloose. On paper, it is an unabashedly 1980s story: a Chicago teenager moves to a small…
REVIEW: “Newsies” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Sierra Pasquale Every millennial theatre kid seems to have a Disney movie that became part of their personality. For me, it was Newsies. Long…
REVIEW: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” at Playhouse Stage Company
by Sierra Pasquale As a millennial, I grew up on the works of Roald Dahl. His books occupied a permanent place on my bookshelf, but…
REVIEW: “The Addams Family at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Sierra Pasquale Few musicals are as delightfully macabre, charmingly eccentric, and unabashedly theatrical as The Addams Family. Based on the beloved characters created by…
REVIEW: “The Wolves” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Sierra Pasquale Sarah DeLappe’s “The Wolves” has become one of the defining contemporary plays about adolescence, identity, and the often-chaotic process of growing up.…