BWW Reviews: Post5 Is the Right Place to Spend THE LAST DAYSOctober 6, 2014There are some dark laughs along the way, and some gross-out moments, but the action feels realistic, as if these four people were being besieged on all sides, and the stress was taking a toll on each of them in a different way.
BWW Reviews: WAIT UNTIL DARK Is Worth Seeing - and Hearing - at Northwest ClassicalSeptember 7, 2014Their production of Wait Until Dark is based on a revised script by Jeffrey Hatcher that premiered in 2013. The original, by Frederick Knott, opened in 1966 and was set at that time; this version is backdated to the 1940s. The loot is slightly different, and there are a few four-letter words added to the text, but beyond these cosmetic touches the script is the same.
BWW Reviews: Artists Rep Strikes a Blow with THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLDMay 27, 2014John Millington Synge's 1907 play is about Christy, a young man who shows up in an Irish village and announces that he has killed his father with a blow to the head. For some reason, the men of the town are impressed by this feat and immediately claim friendship with the boy, while all the women in the town eye him as potential husband material, particularly the young barmaid Pegeen Mike.