Curtainup Founder & Editor Elyse Sommer's Epilogue -- I've passed the torch for reviewing and editing new theater productions on and off-Broadway and elsewhere. However, I'll continue to sound off here with my take on Live and Onscreen Entertainment. As for Curtainup's extensive content since 1996-- it's all sill available at www.curtainup.com

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Curtainup in the Berkshires



The Tempest
The Tempest - Oscar-winner Olymbia Dukakis as the latest gender-bending exiled monarch . . . Read More



The North Pool
The North Pool -Rajiv Joseph has borrowed Agatha Christie's favorite device, planting clues and red herrings to keep her readers reading. The Miss Marple of Joseph's The North Pool, now having its Northeast premiere at Barrington Stage's St. Germain Theater, is Dr. Danielson, the Vice-principal of a large high school anywhere in the USA. . . . Read More

All My Sons
All My Sons - A tense and exciting production sensitively directed by Julianne Boyd with a splendid cast to deal with the secrets and lies shadowing the on the surface American as apple pie Keller family and their neighbors in an anywhere USA town in 1947. . . . Read More

Sunday, July 29, 2012

New London Theater Reviews



Richard
Richard III - Returning to the Globe is its first Artistic Director, Mark Rylance, as the “bottled spider.” Hs version of the monarch is an affable spider without much bottle, so self effacing is his performance. . . . Read More



Ten Billion
Ten Billion - Set in a reproduction of Professor Stephen Emmott’s office in the Cambridge University laboratory, this doesn’t fit into our concept of traditional theatre being a lecture in form presented by an academic and illustrated with visual aids, charts and the like. However, if using theatre helps to get the message across then Katie Mitchell and Emmott’s efforts will have been worthwhile. . . Read More

Report on the Latitude Festival 2012 - Now in its seventh year, Latitude is a festival with a difference. Not only does it draw together some of the biggest names in music . . .Read More

Slap Dash Galaxy A surprise hit and Total Award Theatre winner at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe came in the shadowy shape of Bunk Puppets’ Jeff Achtem. - . . . Read More

Mack and Mabel
Mack and Mabel - Director Thom Southerland gives Jerry Herman's under appreciated musical a loving production. . . Read More