by Paula Kaplan-Reiss As a child, Sunday mornings meant rushing to the Sunday newspaper to read the brightly colored, always amusing comics, highlighted by the first comic on the page, Peanuts. All my friends loved the holiday animated specials on TV featuring Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy and the gang, to…
The Sharon Playhouse, the historic arts and entertainment venue nestled in the picturesque Northwest Corner of Connecticut, is thrilled to announce their highly anticipated production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. As the final mainstage production in our Season of Joy, this heartwarming musical brings Charles M. Schulz’s beloved…
by Macey Levin Connecticut’s Sharon Playhouse once more “Zazzes” up the 2024 summer season with a musical that  makes the audience laugh, cheer and tear up. The Prom, with a book by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin, music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Beguelin, is a hilarious romp about arrogance,…
by Macey Levin Sharon Playhouse, Sharon, Connecticut blasts into the 2024 summer season with the ever rollicking paean to the MTV years, Rock of Ages. Written by Chris D’Arienzo, the show ran for six years in the early 2000’s on Broadway and continues its crowd pleasing evocation of the 1980’s…
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…
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…
by Macey Levin Dan Goggin’s Nunsense is a theatre institution. After debuting in 1985 and becoming the second longest running off-Broadway show (The Fantasticks being first) it has produced six sequels, the last Nunset Boulevard in 2009, and three spin-offs. A swarm of actresses including Edie Adams, Kaye Ballard,…
by Macey Levin Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the first successful show written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice; it was followed by smash hits Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. First produced in England in 1974 it had its initial Off-Broadway showing in 1981 and then…
