Reviews
Theater Review — Bad People Worth Catching In A Good Play: ‘Bonnie And Clyde’ A Strong Production
NEW MILFORD — America needed heroes. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow fancied themselves fulfilling that role in some twisted, misguided way. TheatreWorks New Milford’s production of Bonnie and Clyde, a play by Adam Peck that opened last weekend, seeks to dig deeper into who this gun slingingpair of lovers were and what they wanted. As Bonnie…
167 bullets took down Bonnie & Clyde
Adam Peck’s one-act play “Bonnie & Clyde” attempts to show the human side of the two murdering criminals whose dastardly deeds evolved from headline news to myth. Peck, an Englishman, put his own spin on this notorious American couple. Perhaps it’s the English spin on this American story that doesn’t ring quite right. In the…
The Intimate Side of Bonnie & Clyde
The names Bonnie and Clyde, when uttered together, instantly conjure images of twenty-something Depression Era outlaws who became notorious for their string of robberies and murders and, ultimately, their bullet-riddled demise. Parker and Barrow’s lives have been the inspiration for storytellers throughout the years, most notably for Arthur Penn’s film starring Warren Beatty and Faye…
‘Bonnie & Clyde’ at TheatreWorks New Milford
“Bonnie and Clyde were criminals who caught the attention of the public and never let go.” This play looks “beyond the headlines at the two people who became those legendary outlaws.” ~ Joseph Russo, Director The east coast premiere of Adam Peck’s drama Bonnie and Clyde opened on Friday at TheatreWorks New Milford. Based on the true…
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Chesley Plemmons is a talented and gracious man, well known in the world of local theater, directing more than 13 plays at Brookfield and the Sherman Players. It was this reporter’s Sisyphean task to review him! Mr. Plemmons was the theater critic for The Danbury News Times for 19 years and has reviewed over 2,000…
Defining Them And Us
From the 1930s through the 1950s, Jewish communities in various Southern cities hosted events in which college-age men and women got together to meet, chat, dance, mingle and, well, –hopefully – find a Jewish mate. In Atlanta, the Jewish-only Standard Club sponsored a weekend of breakfast dates, tea dances, cocktail parties, formals, and more, called…
Theater Review: The Last Night of Ballyhoo
One of the most insidious evils of racial and ethnic discrimination is the way that those people being excluded start to buy into the prejudices of the dominant class, feeling shame and self hatred for those physical and cultural traits that characterize their own group. A classic example of this was the “brown paper bag…
Director picks the play, but how?
There’s a certain glamour associated with being the director of a play. After all, you’re the boss. You get to tell everyone what to do — when to be coy, when to be amorous. When to go for the big laugh, and when to tug at heartstrings. Do a great job and you just might…
Celebrate Neil Simon’s 50 Year Old Comedy “Barefoot in the Park” at Theatre Works
Our first walk-up was in Chicago, on Oak Street, and Lake Michigan was a block away. The year was 1955 and Bill and I were sublimely in love. He bought me a volume of Edna St. Vincent Millay (wild and red-haired like me, he said). The sound of Dennis Brain playing the early bars of…
Simon’s ‘Barefoot In The Park’ A Strong Opener For TheatreWorks Season
NEW MILFORD — This year New Milford’s TheatreWorks has chosen to open their 2014 season with an old favorite from the Sixties: Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park. This was made into a hilarious movie, starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford as the young newlyweds bravely starting off their married life in a sixth-floor walk-up…