Review: Harbor Stage Serves Up a Tasty MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ
by R. Scott Reedy - March 28, 2025
Written by and starring comedic actor and playwright Wallace Shawn and avant garde theater director André Gregory, and based on their lives, the 1981 film is the story of two old friends who share dinner at a New York bistro while revisiting their ongoing debate about the life of an artist and the a...
Review: The Huntington's THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE is Just That
by R. Scott Reedy - March 20, 2025
The first production of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux’s “The Triumph of Love” – performed in Paris in 1732 – was no box-office bonanza. Indeed, it closed after just six performances, with audiences apparently finding distasteful the story of a princess seducing not only a young man but an o...
Review: Re-Imagined PETER PAN Takes Flight at Citizens Opera House
by R. Scott Reedy - January 24, 2025
Theater fans have a long and affectionate history with the musical “Peter Pan,” and the J.M. Barrie play, “Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up,” and subsequent novelization, “Peter and Wendy,” of the classic story of the little boy who can fly that inspired it....