Richard Snee

Theater Review: “Grand Horizons” — Divorce Geriatric Style

August 2, 2022
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Grand Horizons at the Gloucester Stage Company is a wild, funny, and sometimes wonderfully touching ride.

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Theater Review: ASP’s “Exit The King” – When Politics Become Absurd

September 30, 2017
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In Ionesco’s play, society no longer makes sense — even to itself.

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Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Extraordinarily Meta-“Hamlet”

October 18, 2016
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In this innovative production, Hamlet comes off as Shakespeare’s most successful genre mash-up of tragedy and comedy.

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Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project Serves Up a Genial “School for Scandal”

April 23, 2016
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The School for Scandal hasn’t dated a jot: put Snake, Mrs. Candour, and Mrs. Sneerwell on Facebook and watch civilizations totter.

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Theater Review: “Out of Sterno” — Absurd to the Point of Distraction

July 4, 2015
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Out of Sterno punches the same punchline far too often.

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Theater Review: Richard Snee and Paula Plum Make for a Rewarding “Auld Lang Syne”

July 22, 2014
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Local playwright Jack Neary always captures the frisson of nostalgia and resentment familiar to Catholic school graduates of a certain era, teasing gently without ever offending.

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