BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Compelling performances and high-stakes drama propel the latest Fringe Series play at Centre Stage, “Death and the Maiden.” This Olivier Award-winning work by Ariel Dorfman is set in an unnamed country that is, like the...
BY LOU BUTTINO DRAMA CRITIC On first glance, Centre Stage’s current offering, “Intimate Apparel,” by award winning author Lynn Nottage could be dismissed as an underdressed visitor. That would be a mistake. Ms. Nottage has written a powerful piece of...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER You’ve seen him as Officer Lockstock in “Urinetown: The Musical” at The Warehouse Theatre and at Centre Stage in “A Time to Kill” and “The Explorer’s Club.” But now the first time since re-locating to...
“DeliKateSSen” is a riveting portrait of a family thrust into turmoil. Bolstered by a first-rate cast, this engrossing story with one twist after another excoriates a festering wound of hate and trauma with genuine pathos in an emotional, visceral flood...
BY JEFF LEVENE DRAMA CRITIC Just in time for Lent, Centre Stage’s “Sister Act” is a glorious and impossibly fun whirlwind of disco music, Studio 54 lighting, and, of course, devout Catholicism. And with a visually stunning slew of funky dance...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Like most of us Whoopi Goldberg fans, Simone Mack has seen the now-classic holier-than-thou comedy film “Sister Act.” But Ms. Mack has never witnessed the Broadway version “Sister Act: The Musical.” And that she considers...
