REVIEW: “Oliver!” at the Sharon Playhouse

by Macey Levin The Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, Connecticut, is currently presenting Lionel Bart’s Oliver! a  show seldom produced on local stages.  Presented on Broadway in  1960 it won a Tony for Bart’s score.  This was followed by a movie in 1968 which won the Oscar for best picture.  The…

REVIEW: “Something Rotten” at the Sharon Playhouse

by Macey Levin There is a rollicking production of a witty and very corny show with exuberant musical numbers at the Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, Connecticut. Something Rotten!, book by Karley Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell with music and lyrics by Karley and Wayne Kirkpatrick, takes place in London, 1595, when…

REVIEW: “Guys and Dolls” at the Sharon Playhouse

by Jeannie Marlin Woods There was a tremendous joy and a celebratory air at the July 29 opening of GUYS AND DOLLS at the Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, Connecticut. This was the Playhouse’s first fully-produced show in three years. In coming back after the COVID pandemic, the Playhouse side-stepped the…

“Guys and Dolls” Opens at the Sharon Playhouse

Justin Boccitto directs and choreographs the production, featuring Broadway veterans Amanda Lea LaVergne, C.K. Edwards, Lauralyn McClelland, and Robert Anthony Jones Connecticut’s Sharon Playhouse opens its production of Guys and Dolls July 29 in the Bobbie Olsen Theater.  Performances continue through August 14. Starring are Broadway veterans Amanda Lea LaVergne…

REVIEW: “Always…Patsy Cline” at the Sharon Playhouse

by Macey Levin In 1957 Louise Seger of Houston, Texas, had an idol  – Grand Ole Opry star Patsy Cline.  When Cline was going to appear at a club in Houston, Louise and friends fortunately arrived early and a friendship was formed between the working woman and the legendary performer. …