Reviews
The No-Name Show
Over the years there have been a lot of shows about…well…putting on a show, perhaps the most famous being Forty-Second Street, but there’s Kiss Me, Kate, A Chorus Line, Babes in Arms, Summer Stock, and we can’t forget The Producers, Noises Off and Lend Me a Tenor. Broadway (and Hollywood) often likes to look at…
Quite a tale of ‘The Allergist’s Wife’ – 4-1/2 out of 5 Stars!
It’s easy to see that Marjorie is depressed. She’s slumped on a couch wearing a blue robe that matches her disposition and she has no intention of changing her clothes no matter what the time of day or night. Her husband, Dr. Ira Taub, a prominent doctor, an allergist, tries to help, but he is…
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife at TheatreWorks New Milford had the audience giggling right from the first word.
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife at TheatreWorks New Milford had the audience giggling right from the first word. It may have been gloomy outside but the almost full theater was immersed in laughter throughout the evening concluding with a standing ovation for this talented cast. Charles Busch is a contemporary American actor, screenwriter, playwright and…
Theater Review: ‘Allergist’s Wife’ Given Terrific Treatment In New Milford
NEW MILFORD — Are you having one of those days? If you are, get thee to the doctor, or in this case, the doctor’s wife. TheaterWorks New Milford’s production of Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife is a riotous exploration of Marjorie Taub’s middle-aged crisis in which she finds herself grasping for meaning…
Theater Review: In New Milford, A ‘Seminar’ Worth Attending
NEW MILFORD — The art, angst and overwrought process of writing is on display to comedic perfection at TheatreWorks New Milford. Under the spot-on direction of Alicia Dempster, Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar delivers on the coordination of the “interiority and exteriority” required to become not just a writer but an author. Four young wannabe writers have chosen to…
‘Seminar’ at TheatreWorks New Milford
Seminar is a contemporary play (2011) by American playwright Theresa Rebeck. Four aspiring young writers pay the sizeable sum of $5,000 each for a ten week seminar where their writing, and by extension their egos, will be under the scrutiny of Leonard, a magniloquent, has-been of a celebrated novelist whose star is now quite tarnished. Meeting…
Pillow Talking’s Review of SEMINAR
She Said: I’m a writer – sometimes I feel as if there are words instead of blood coursing through my veins; I hear ideas popping into creation like new synaptic connections in my brain when I’m driving, in the shower, or doing any other mundane activity. It’s something I do, and it’s something I love.…
‘Seminar’ Scores an A at TheatreWorks
Those who think real theater has died are not getting out enough. TheatreWorks in New Milford offers Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar, a contemporary comedy (2011) adroit with humor, fine acting, gut-bucket aphorisms. This five-actor play about writers transcends the narrow subject of its focus while probing ambition, jealousy, and cowardice. Ironies sleep like fiery poems hidden in…
Theater Review: A Vortex Of Action At TheatreWorks New Milford
NEW MILFORD — Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies opened on September 25, at TheatreWorks New Milford, to a full house of entertained theatergoers. This outrageous bit of farcical hijinks left the audience laughing to the point of guffaws as the tempo picked up and the ruse was on. Traveling actors Leo Clark (Hal Chernoff) and Jack Gable (Rob…
These ‘Leading Ladies’ are no ladies
TheatreWorks, New Milford: Leave it to Ken Ludwig to write a farce with a title that leads one to believe that the comedy is going to feature two actresses. Well, it doesn’t. The thing is that the leading ladies in this show are actually male actors pretending to be women. Right from the naming of…