Reviews
‘Kate’ at TheatreWorks in New Milford
“Send in the clowns!” is what wise directors cry when their show – even a classic one – is looking listless. Luckily, Bradford Blake, the director of “Kiss Me, Kate” at TheatreWorks in New Milford, has Mark Feltch and Jeff Porper, two expert comedians, in his cast. They supply the oxygen in this otherwise workmanlike…
‘Doubt’ Is a Winner
There aren’t many local theaters brave enough to stage a play that became an Academy Award-nominated film starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman only a year ago. But TheatreWorks New Milford never shies away from a challenge, and any doubts about its decision were swept away when the lights came up opening night on…
Fine acting in New Milford ‘Doubt’
John Patrick Shanley’s award-winning drama “Doubt,” now at TheatreWorks in New Milford, is a chilling example of morality gone mad. What is it about righteousness that causes the heart to go cold, and moral certainty to blind the mind to reason? “Doubt” may be a familiar story of a witch hunt, but it is beautifully…
TheatreWorks leaves no ‘Doubt’ about it…the show’s a hit
It’s not surprising that John Patrick Shanley’s drama “Doubt” won the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize. It’s a great play. What makes it so outstanding is that important universal themes are woven throughout the play. “Doubt” deals with issues from religion, to race, to sexism. You couldn’t ask for a more timely play, since political…
John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt” at New Milford TheatreWorks
Doubt is a somber four-character play about the conflict between the principal of a Catholic school in the Bronx and a young priest assigned to her parish. The drama opens with a sermon in which the priest extols the lack of surety about the most pressing life questions parishioners inevitably harbor. He declares that doubt itself…
‘Fourth Wall,’ A Departure For Its Playwright, Still Handled Well By TheatreWorks New Milford
NEW MILFORD — A.R.Gurney, chronicler of the decline of the American WASP, probably best known for the frequently produced Love Letters and the man-woman-dog love triangle Sylvia, is probably the most accessible and likeable play-writing today. From The Dining Room and The Cocktail Hour to Scenes From American Life and numerous others, I have never…
‘All the World’s a Stage’ TheatreWorks Brilliantly ‘Redecorates’, With ‘The Fourth Wall’
Anyone familiar with theater knows of the “fourth wall,” that imaginary barrier at the front of the stage through which viewers watch the onstage action. It is the boundary between reality and the imagined world of the playwright, the line between the fictional world and the audience. So what happens when this boundary is broken?…
‘Fourth Wall’ serves as spoof of theater, politics
So what do playwrights do in their spare time? If Roxbury’s A.R. Gurney is a prime example, they write more plays. Not plays necessarily meant for Broadway, but works in which the playwright (Gurney) can have fun using his skills to poke fun at the hand that feeds him (theater) as well as one of…
A.R. Gurney’s The Fourth Wall at New Milford’s TheatreWorks
There is more to playwright A. R. Gurney than meets the eye. Some critics view him as a dramatist who has a flair for depicting characters who inhabit a genteel, waspish world. Yet signs of a widened sensibility are also apparent in the work of the Buffalo-born playwright. Many of his dramas have small casts,…
Grief, hope play out in Rabbit ‘Hole’ – 5 out of 5 Stars
Becca and Howie Corbett are a typical young married couple with a small child. When a tragic accident befalls their young son, grief takes hold of them so profoundly that their marriage and lives are drained almost to empty. The strain of that loss has affected every aspect of their lives and they look at…