A distinguished-looking man rises from the audience of well-wishers and friends to claim a prestigious award. It recognizes him for his exceptional contributions to surgery and to his country. The
Shem Bitterman's new play "Open House" has some engaging moments. But not enough of them.
In the beginning real estate agent Chuck (a consistently spectacular Robert
He's obsequious, ruthless, condescending, shrewd, and self-aggrandizing. He is, in fact, the very model of a modern major bureaucrat. And nobody does that better than Dakin Matthews.
Matthews,
How do you get an overweight, out-of-shape Jewish lady "of a certain age" to join a flamenco class?
You nag. You nudge. You kvetch. You promise her ice
In the last couple of decades of the 19th century and the first couple in the 20th, the Germans rehearsed the genocide they would spring on the world some 20
Is 82 years too soon to make a musical out of a true story of rampant racism, the worst depression the United States ever experienced and the flamboyant injustices of
Matthew McConaughey is the personification of mud, physically and emotionally.
"Mud" is the story of a lovelorn loser and the teenage boys who help him evade the avenging
For an older audience, the memory of first love carries with it a soft nostalgia. That sweet lifting of the heart is the leitmotif of a delicate new play, "
