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What a great production of a truly great musical! The Ghent Playhouse stage is truly awash with talent as this energetic cast – which skillfully and…

I first saw this 1986 Sheldon Harnick/Joe Raposo musical adaptation of Frank Capra’s iconic 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life in 2006 at NYSTI, and I found it…

In the final moment of this Castle Hill production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at the New Stage Performing Arts Center Gladys Herdman (Grace Kelley)…

Oh, I’ve been waiting all my life to write this sentence: Winkles twinkles as Crumpet the Elf.There was no doubt in my mind from the moment Shakespeare…

Eddie Allen and Rob Leo Roy are actors and friends. Both are members of Walking the dog’s OFF LEASH! Improv Ensemble, and both lost their father’s when they…

Pigs and wolves and bears, oh my! Must be Panto time!The PantoLoons 12th annual British American Panto, Menagerie à Trois, is a melange of Goldilocks…

NOTE: Dionysia is a performance piece based on fragments of ancient Greek text and pottery. Therefore, my review is based on fragments of information about the…

Forgive me, gentle readers, for it is impossible for me to be objective about the work of William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and Arthur Seymour Sullivan…

All families have their skeletons hidden in boxes in attics and closets. And all families have their strands of pearls that bind them together, but haven’t I…

What have I not written about innovative humorist Dirck Toll? At first I started writing this commentary on his most recent offering entitled Over Head:…

I don’t ask much of the dead, other than that they stay that way and refrain from eating me. Unfortunately, that is exactly what the deceased refuse to do in…

When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he left The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished. Only half of the twelve planned installments – like most of Dickens’ fiction,…