A Bright New Boise

Giddy-up Armageddon! could be the rallying cry for evangelical misfit Will (Michael Russotto), the sad-sack hero of Samuel D. Hunter’s A Bright New Boise, a divinely inspired heartland comedy directed by John Vreeke.  [Read more...]

It Shoulda Been You

It’s nowhere near June yet love and marriage seem to be in the theatrical air as Hallowe’en approaches. On October 14th. the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey opened a new musical comedy called It Shoulda Been You with all the attendant hoopla of a Hollywood preem. Klieg lights searched the sky, a (slightly tattered) red carpet welcomed first nighters, who numbered among them Victor Garber, Michael Feinstein, John Kander, Kathleen Marshall, Producer Daryl Roth, a packet of reviewers and a bevy of regional theatre artistic directors. [Read more...]

The Book Club Play

These days, asking how someone takes their books will yield more answers than asking how they take their coffee. Hardback? Paperback? Nook? Kindle? Barnes and Noble?  Amazon?  iPad? Google? Walmart? Library? The used book store around the corner that has what you need more often than what you want? The avenues for reading are endless, but no matter how we now take our books, what they give us is the same. The Book Club Play reminds us why we cherish books as much as why we go to the theatre.  [Read more...]