Reviews
Zombie Prom, the fastest 90 minutes of music, dancing and schtick now cavorting on the stage at TheatreWorks New Milford.
Mid-summer doldrums got you down? Feeling blah? I have the perfect cure — Zombie Prom, the fastest 90 minutes of music, dancing and schtick now cavorting on the stage at TheatreWorks New Milford. It's the 1950's, the word "teenager" comes to...
“Dance of the Dead”
Oh, the plight of a young zombie who wants to hold onto his girlfriend and go back to high school so he can graduate. Yes, he's different, basically due to decomposition, but in the grand scope of things does that...
Don’t miss the fun at this campy musical running through Aug. 5 at TheatreWorks New Milford.
I'm a blast from the past. I'm a force for the future. A teen-age zombie, an acquired taste, Oxy-clear and toxic waste. I'm a blast, blast, blast -- From the all too recent past! - Jonny in 'Zombie Prom' New...
Theater Review: It’s Girl Loves Ghoul At TheatreWorks New Milford
NEW MILFORD — For a whole lot of good, clean hilariousness, go see TheatreWorks New Milford's current production of the musical Zombie Prom, with book and lyrics by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe. Under the very clever and...
“Private Lives is the plum in the pudding this holiday season.”
TheatreWorks New Milford's production of Noel Coward's Private Lives is the plum in the pudding this holiday season. The cast is magnificent, the set is the most creative I've seen, and your face will hurt from laughing as you exuberantly applaud at...
A Funny Tale of Relationships
TheatreWorks New Milford's production of "Private Lives" is a richly funny presentation that enlivens Noel Coward's rapier-sharp script by bringing to the rather intimate theater five actors who are as agile with their lines as they are with their expressions,...
Coward’s ‘Private Lives’ quite public – 5 out of 5 Stars
Considering that Noel Coward's comedy "Private Lives" has had seven Broadway revivals and played at just about every community and regional theater in Connecticut, there's not much private about the play. Currently, it is alive and very well at TheatreWorks...
A Complex Battle of Good Versus Evil
If you're of a certain age, the title "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" may evoke audio memories of Gene Pitney crooning on the AM radio in your parent's 1962 Oldsmobile. If classic films are more your bent, then John...
An Excellent Debut For “Liberty Valance” In New Milford
NEW MILFORD — Theatreworks New Milford has raised the bar at Prairie Belle Saloon high, with the production of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Impeccably directed by Richard Pettibone, the brilliant performances in this show have set a new standard....
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance at TheatreWorks New Milford
The spirit of the "Old West" bursts to life on the stage of TheatreWorks New Milford in their production of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. This play conjures up every western you've seen with gun slingers trying to control...
Shoot out at TheatreWorks New Milford
The great American Westerns with quick on the draw, gunslinging cowboys are hard to find on the big screen or television these days let alone on stage. However, TheatreWorks in New Milford has the distinction of presenting Jethro Compton's "The...
Pillow Talking’s Review of [title of show]
She Said: Interestingly, there have been two shows in the 2016 season at TheatreWorks New Milford which speak to insiders – to writers and other artists in the literary and entertainment businesses. Each of them reflects the excitement, struggles, successes,...
“A Musical That Will Lift Your Spirits”
[title of show] glows from start to finish with clever and irreverent songs finely calibrated by an exquisite cast that never misses a beat, literally! With music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and the book by Hunter Bell, [title of show] chronicles their own...
Four Gifted Actors Perfect In ‘[title of show]’
NEW MILFORD — TheatreWorks New Milford's summer fare is a musical rendition of a slice of the lives of the four characters who seemingly create the work on the spot. It is funny, charming and unusual. Under the direction of...
Review: ‘[title of show]’ at TheatreWorks New Milford
"I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth-favorite thing..." New Milford, CT - [title of show] is an original broadway musical with music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and book by Hunter Bell. Because it is...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...