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.
Jim Kates
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.
Theater Review: “The Whipping Man” — A Secular Haggadah
Flawed and perhaps overwrought, The Whipping Man is worth watching because of the intensity of its individual scenes.
Theater Review: An Exuberant and Dark “Absurd Person Singular”
Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular is a comedy of total narcissism — belly-laugh jokes accompanied by a cold cruelty.