Sex over, she wants to send Johnny on his way so she can enjoy the rest of the evening watching tv and eating ice cream. But he decides he is totally smitten. Will love bloom?
This is musical theatre, sure, but it is much more than that. Instead of pretty songs with repeated melody lines and salubrious lyrical sentiments, this is everyday speech, rhymed and coupled, like operatic recitative with a rock beat. And it works.
Paradise Blue is the second of Dominique Morisseau’’s trilogy of plays about Detroit, community and the reality of life.
Here’s a Neil Simon play that searches for answers and truth in a family with a cruel matriarch. There are plenty of great laughs, too, but the touching story is the real reason to cherish Lost in Yonkers.
Burns and Murray had decidedly different views on this Tony nominated play, with her thumb up, and his thumb down.
When Jeff McCarthy remakes himself with paste and whiskers into the aging squire/knight errant Don Quixote in front of our eyes, it is theatrical magic time. At that moment it was clear that this “Man of La Mancha” was going to be transformative .
Making sense of relationships and theories about reproductive biology unleash high emotions and zingy retorts in this unusual play about the reunion of a child put out for adoption and her birth mother.
Butler was no abolitionist, but what he did with the simple idea that slaves were contraband provided the Union free labor and ultimately changed the course of history.
