Gloucester Stage Company

Theater Review: “The Hombres” — Calming the Savage Beast

September 19, 2024
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There’s plenty of potential in Tony Meneses’ script about men sharing their inner lives with other men, but it is filled with too many silent types.

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Theater Review: “Wish You Were Here” — Innocence Lost

August 15, 2024
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Through around 10 scenes, spanning over a decade, “Wish You Were Here” looks at political oppression through the domestic lens of lost love and friendships.

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Theater Interview: GSC’s Rebecca Bradshaw on “Water’s Rising: Festival of New Climate Action Plays”

April 22, 2024
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“We need hope in the possibility of change in order to survive what’s coming.”

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Theater Review: “Tall Tales from Blackburn Tavern” — Ghostly Doings

September 7, 2023
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All in all,Tall Tales from Blackburn Tavern is an entertaining look at the things that went bump in the night in Gloucester.

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Theater Review: “Stew” — A Winning Recipe

July 12, 2023
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Congratulations to Gloucester Stage’s new artistic director Rebecca Bradshaw for mounting the regional premiere of this interesting script, a kitchen sink comedy/drama that is anything but routine.

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Theater Review: “Private Lives” — Time for Retirement?

June 12, 2023
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Even when it is well-performed, as it is here, it is unclear whether Noël Coward’s well-constructed comic concoction deserves another theatrical lease on life.

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Theater Review: “The Thin Place” — Nowheresville

October 5, 2022
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An experimental drama, no matter how tantalizing, has to come up with a payoff that makes its bewildering journey worth it. Lucas Hnath’s doesn’t.

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Theater Review: “Paradise Blue” — Hit the High Notes

August 31, 2022
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This dark and jazzy noir drama would be compelling if it just focused on dramatizing a jazz artist’s quest for artistic perfection.

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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: “Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets” — Romantic Misfire

July 9, 2022
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Once it gets its bearings, Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets, tosses and turns its way through the throes of hidden romance, miscommunication, reconciliation and, eventually, heartbreak.

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