Grand Horizons at the Gloucester Stage Company is a wild, funny, and sometimes wonderfully touching ride.
Paula Plum
Theater Review: “The Children” — After the Damage Has Been Done
An apocalyptic backdrop gives the play urgency, especially given the current worldwide struggle to contain the Corvid-19 virus, which has already claimed thousands of lives.
Theater Review: “Steel Magnolias” — Female Bonding
Over thirty years after it premiered, the script remains touching and funny, with the added merit that it provides a refreshing respite from the sour discourse of 2019.
Theater Review: “Out of the Mouths of Babes” — Memories of a Cad
Israel Horovitz’s latest play delivers some fine moments of comedy as well as some dark revelations about female neediness.
Theater Review: “Waiting for Waiting for Godot” — No Exit From the Green Room
Dave Hanson’s comic confection, Waiting for Waiting for Godot, is generating plenty of giggles in the back room theater at Club Café.
Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Dream of a Midsummer Night
Mortals would be foolish to miss the ASP’s version of Shakespeare’s Dream.
Theater Review: The Lyric Stage Company is not “Afraid of Virginia Woolf”
Edward Albee’s bitter masterwork is a tough nut for a company to crack as well as a hard play to watch.
Theater Review: “The Last Schwartz” — Family Matters
Yes, The Last Schwartz is a family drama through and through, but it is well crafted and touching.
Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project Serves Up a Genial “School for Scandal”
The School for Scandal hasn’t dated a jot: put Snake, Mrs. Candour, and Mrs. Sneerwell on Facebook and watch civilizations totter.
Theater Review: “Out of Sterno” — Absurd to the Point of Distraction
Out of Sterno punches the same punchline far too often.