Paul Daigneault
“A Man of No Importance” is a fitting finale for Paul Daigneault’s tenure as Artistic Director of SpeakEasy Stage Company because it is a paean to the power of theater as both an artistic expression and a place to discover community.
This is a well-honed, mostly successful script about the difficulties of making human connections — a drama about seizing the day.
This well-directed and performed production of a musical about the universal longing for connection delivers a stirringly heart felt experience.
The Prom’s greatest strength is how the musical can be, almost simultaneously, satirical, hilarious, and nuanced.
As National Pride Month begins, The Inheritance is a powerful way to honor and remember the impossible journey so many have taken to win the right to simply be themselves in public.
Songs for a New World grapples with the jumble of emotions prompted by the end of the pandemic, while also serving as a potent reminder of what a joyful experience musical theater can be.
We are invited to see the world through the eyes of an adolescent whose autism makes human communication and contact incredibly difficult.
The musical is a relentless, one hour and fifty minute excursion into the history of racial bias in America, from the cotton fields to the Civil Rights movement.
From Significant Other’s opening moments, it is clear that this smart and heartfelt script is in very capable hands.
Director Paul Daigneault and SpeakEasy Stage have a hit on their hands
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