BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC “OX” by Derek Davidson, is a short play with a huge heart. Davidson, who penned the paean to the Women of Shakespeare in “A Part Equal” performed by Theatre Converse at Converse College last season,...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER Hazel Louise Corts was not a famous person. But she was a champion to Dr. Deborah McEniry and her family. So much that McEniry and her cousin Dr. Alicia Corts wrote a play in her...
Two Theatres Present the Cult Musical Sensation This Season BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER There are great roles. And then there are GREAT roles: Willy Loman. Hamlet. Lady Macbeth. Blanche DuBois. Dr. Frank-N-Furter. SOUND-OF-A-PHONOGRAPH-NEEDLE-SREECHING-ACROSS-A-VINYL-RECORD! Why, you ask, is the Sweet...
BEHIND THE CURTAIN: Director Reed Halverson on ‘Breaking Up Is Hard To Do’ Centre Stage Ends Season with Comedy, Pop Songs & Romance BY STEVE WONG ARTS WRITER With its current production of the jukebox musical “Breaking Up Is Hard...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Seasoned actor and performer Celia Blitzer is accustomed to wearing Big Hair and high-rise wigs. Hailing from Maryland where she once played Tracy Turnblad in “Hairspray” IN Baltimore, Miss Blitzer is celebrating her fifth year...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER Invigorated by weeks of 10-hour days of rehearsals and countless other tasks beholden to an Artistic Director’s role, Jenna Tamisiea Elser is exhausted, but gloriously liberated by her art. As co-founder of Glow Lyric Theatre,...
