In these poems, contemplation, serenity, and service are the order of the day.
Jim Kates
Theater Review: “Robert Frost: This Verse Business” — Friendly to a Fault
The overall effect is one of a genial, superficial club lecture on reading and writing poetry, punctuated by Frost’s Greatest Hits.
Theater Review: “Rose” — A Well-Acted Excursion in Storytelling
Carolyn Michel’s Rose is the sociable stranger on the bus who tempts you to miss your stop so you can hear her out to the end.
Theater Review: “Dumas’ Camille ” — A Thickly Layered, But Intimate, Evening
Dumas’ Camille is nothing if not ambitious. Such complexity is seldom found on a summer stage.
Theater Review: “She Loves Me” — Amiably Unambitious
This review, like the opening night of She Loves Me, is dedicated to the life and work of the late producer Harold Prince.
Theater Review: “Gertrude Stein and a Companion” — A Satisfying Dramatic Fusion
In two short acts, playwright Win Wells depicts not so much a relationship as a fusion, a merging of identities into one single, complex personality.
Theater Review: “The Skin of Our Teeth” — As Dark as the Daily News
Thornton Wilder’s Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.
Theater Review: Peterborough Players’s “Ripcord” — Arguing for a Full Life
David Lindsay-Abaire’s tightly woven comic script celebrates the everyday relationships that make up an argument for a full life.
Theater Review: “Every Brilliant Thing” — Two Cheers for Solipsism
A manipulative entertainment that sets out to confuse theater and therapy.
Theater Review: Viva “Wittenberg” at Peterborough Players
Davalos’s fast-paced wittiness and director Keith Stevens’ deft management of dramatist’s words and dramatic action keep us in stitches.