Harkening back to their debut performance, the Providence Players of Fairfax (PPF) open their 15th anniversary season with You Can’t Take It With You, a Pulitzer-winning comedy that fosters an appreciation for the eccentricities of family life.
Aldersgate’s And Then There Were None was a well-timed, well-performed Agatha Christie classic.
Legally Blonde the Musical is not RCP’s finest moment, but it is not bad either. What it is is a sweet evening out with family and friends, watching talented people taking risks onstage and sincerely wanting to please.
Even in more recent plays and musicals, a common theme has been the difficulty, or perhaps impossibility, of achieving “The American Dream.” Steinbeck’s success, and that of this production, is to make understandable the emotional impact of the loss of even that tiny dream.
This play is good because of sublime performances by Thomas Keegan and Rachel Zampelli.
TAP’s Promises, Promises was a positively funny show that did not take itself or the audience too seriously.
Other than a few very funny slapstick moments, this production was marked with problems and half-hearted efforts.
American Century Theater has put on a very a successful production.
Visually stunning, morally stark, and beautifully told, this reincarnation of Jekyll’s battle with his dark side is like none seen before.
Medea, with her overwhelming passions and command of magic, is a force of nature — a force beyond nature, perhaps — but this is a story without a hero.