Reviews
‘Golda’s Balcony’ a powerful and compelling show
The sound of machine gunfire is heard in the distance and Golda Meir (played by New Milford actress Sonnie Osborne) walks up to a dimly lit table and slowly lights a cigarette with trembling hands. It's the first scene of...
“Golda’s Balcony” Features The Performance Of A Lifetime
NEW MILFORD — If you go to New Milford's TheatreWorks for the current production of William Gibson's Golda's Balcony , not only will you get to see Sonnie Osborne give the performance of her life in the role of Israeli...
Israel First, Always
Golda Meir was one tough woman. No. Make that one tough person. Playwright William Gibson in "Golda's Balcony" has Israel's fourth prime minister begging Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger for arms as Arab forces moved on the Jewish state in...
Sonnie Osborne Shines in ‘Golda’s Balcony’
When the curtain goes up on “Golda’s Balcony” at TheatreWorks New Milford, the audience immediately understands the grave decision a 75-year-old Golda Meir had to make on the eve of the Yom Kippur War. On October 8, 1973, she had...
Golda’s Balcony is Brilliant, Timeless and Timely
TheatreWorks New Milford produces a spell bounding look at a remarkable woman at the intersection of life and politics In U.S. Presidential election campaigns, candidates sometimes boast about who is better equipped to answer the phone at 3am – that’s...
For these Irish men, size matters
Often the things that we laugh about are really not so funny. One has only to attend "The Irish Curse" at TheatreWorks in New Milford to see that this is the case. Written by Martin Casella and directed by Robin...
The Irish Curse’ Offers Laughs, Reflection And ‘Magical Chemistry”
NEW MILFORD – One of the pleasures of being a regional theater reviewer is the opportunity it affords to watch the same actors performing over a number of years and to see them get better and better at their craft....
‘The Irish Curse’: Ribald and Thought Provoking
At TheatreWorks, Size Does Matter – but only if you let it. Part of the attraction of community theater is the mixing of old and new, the intrigue of watching accomplished actors endeavor in new roles as veteran performers return and inject...
‘The Irish Curse’ Hits TheatreWorks New Milford
People from all walks of life have their own strengths and shortcomings, and, though we swear it's not true, our society is fixated on size. We want everything to be bigger than life, from our dessert portions and the TVs...
‘The Irish Curse’ opens in New Milford
The premise of Martin Casella's comedy "The Irish Curse" is that the presumably unfortunate genetic condition of having a small penis is reason enough to organize a support group whose five members can grouse about the blight that has brought...
A Gift Of “Laughter” In New Milford
NEW MILFORD – This year TheatreWorks New Milford has forsworn the Christmas themed holiday show in favor of Present Laughter, a frothy comedy by Noel Coward. Admittedly colored by autobiographical implications, the play revolves around a vain, self-absorbed, and highly...
Noel Coward and Friends
In Noel Coward's play about self-centered, histrionic and mostly attractive theater people, Garry Essendine stands out. That's because Coward was re-creating himself in "Present Laughter," the drawing room comedy he wrote in 1939, when the world was falling apart. This...
‘Laughter’ brightens holidays
Noel Coward's "Present Laughter" arrives at the New Milford TheatreWorks just in time to bring plenty of color, comedy and class to the holiday season. A large cast full of quirky characters who often find themselves in awkward situations is...
‘Present Laughter’ is an Early Holiday Gift – Noel Coward’s light comedy comes to life at TheatreWorks New Milford
Knowledgeable theatergoers will thoroughly enjoy Present Laughter, an amusing two-act comedy by legendary playwright Noël Coward, now on stage at TheatreWorks New Milford. Like a Robert Ludlum novel, the play starts out slowly, introducing characters and presenting necessary background details –...
Classic Coward Play is at TheatreWorks
In a holiday season strained by a still-struggling economy and the stresses of everyday life only magnified by the season itself, we all need a break from it all—and an entertaining one at that. Fortunately, TheatreWorks New Milford's production of...
Noel Coward’s romp ‘Present Laughter’ at TheatreWorks
New Milford's TheatreWorks is currently treating audiences to a delightful comedy by that national treasure of English drama, Noel Coward. Long acknowledged as one of his country's outstanding wits, raconteurs, directors, diarists, letter-writers and actors, Coward's humor still stands up...
TheatreWorks pays tribute to Lynn Redgrave
Theatre Works, New Milford: Leave it to director Jane Farnol and actress Susan Pettibone to take on the late Lynn Redgrave's autobiographical one-woman show. Lynn Redgrave, the daughter of the great Shakespearean actor Sir Michael Redgrave, wrote this play in...
Personal Insight Allows New Milford’s ‘Shakespeare’ To Shine
NEW MILFORD — New Milford's Theatreworks is once again ratcheting up the level of intellectual strength it expects from its audiences, by presenting a work that presumes not only some familiarity with Shakespeare, but also an acquaintance with the great...
A Sterling Production of “Shakespeare for My Father”
In the theater world, one-actor shows are where the rubber meets the road. There are no places to hide: just the script, the director's interpretation, and the actor's talent. TheatreWorks New Milford has clearly mastered this simple yet challenging formula...
Recalling Old Sorrows, And Overcoming Them
Lynn Redgrave was barely noticed by Sir Michael Redgrave. The actor. Her father. In "Shakespeare for My Father," a play Lynn Redgrave wrote about growing up in this illustrious theater family, she searches her father's journals after his death, particularly...
TheatreWorks Mounts Brilliant Redgrave Tribute
"All the world's a stage." That Shakespearean phrase from "As You Like It" has often been used by artists of all walks of life, but for the late Lynn Redgrave, it is a phrase that could not have been more...