Gunderson & Melcon Elevate Jane Austen’s “Modern” Woman! by Lynne Stevens Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon have imagined the lives of Jane Austen’s delightfully comic Bennet family visiting Pemberley at Christmas. It’s two years after Elizabeth (Kausar Mohammed) and Darcy (Adam Griffith) were married. The eccentric Bennet family descends on the majestic manor—with the…
John Fisher’s Spectacular Staging Puts Fascism in Our Faces by Barry David Horwitz Dramatic genius John Fisher has assembled a heavenly cast to explore the Hell of 1930s Germany—to live out the nightmare of newly-minted Nazism. Substitute MAGA for NAZI and we are re-living “Cabaret” right now in the U.S. Fisher seduces us into…
Millennial Notes Patrick Barlow Blends Hitchcock Thriller & Slapstick Comedy by Isa S. Chu “The 39 Steps,” a madcap comedy with breakneck pacing, tells a story as wild as its characters. Four actors play over 100 roles with endless youthful energy. They reach heights both absurd and oddly brilliant. Gene Mocsy anchors the madness…
Millennial Notes Dacia Maraini Seduces with Longings for Romantic Rapture by Corey Finnegan There’s a reason we call it “falling” in love. Not “rising” or “expanding” or “resetting.” Anyone who has fallen in love knows that it is a glorious folly. In truth, the only thing worse than falling in love is never knowing…