Reviews
‘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…
Bawdy, risqué…an evening of laugh out loud comedy.
Prepare yourself to be weak from laughter with a stitch in your side when you leave this performance of Leading Ladies! TheatreWorks New Milford lives up to their reputation bringing another hit to their stage that is bawdy, risqué and outrageously funny! Leading Ladies is a play by Ken Ludwig, a contemporary American playwright who…
Hilarity at TheatreWorks
If you’re in the mood for laughter, Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig is sure to exercise your diaphragm. Michael Bolinksi as director squeezes virtuallly all the juice from a script that runs perilously close to self-parody. This amusing 2004 farce about two desperate Shakespearean actors on-the-make has deep roots in Molière as well as the Marx Brothers.…
Hilarity at TheatreWorks
If you’re in the mood for laughter, Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig is sure to exercise your diaphragm. Michael Bolinksi as director squeezes virtuallly all the juice from a script that runs perilously close to self-parody. This amusing 2004 farce about two desperate Shakespearean actors on-the-make has deep roots in Molière as well as the Marx Brothers.…
‘Time Stands Still’ at TheatreWorks New Milford
I was eager to see Time Stands Still at TheatreWorks New Milford and I wasn’t disappointed. Waiting for the show to begin, the unique sounds of Philip Glass’ Metamorphosis Four filled the air. A stroke of genius, a musical introduction to the intimate changes you’re about to see unfold on the stage. Time Stands Still is an emotionally…
Review: ‘Time Stands Still’ at TheatreWorks New Milford
“At what expense does one tell the difficult truths of war?” Director Sonnie Osborne (‘Souvenir’) poses that question in her notes about her production of ‘Time Stands Still’ running through August 1 at TheatreWorks New Milford. The play was written by Donald Margulies, a celebrated playwright who is an adjunct professor of English Theatre Studies…