WOBT: "Clue, the Musical"
Clue, the Musical has been seen before in the River Region. Based on the Parker Brothers board game, audiences are challenged to figure out whether it was "Mr. Green, in the Conservatory, with the...
View ArticleAUM: "World Tour: scenes, songs, and monologues"
Theatre AUM traditionally opens its season with a showcase of "scenes, songs, and monologues". The latest installment is called World Tour that includes selections from Europe, Asia, the Middle East,...
View ArticleCloverdale Playhouse: "Rumors"
Standing ovations are so routine that they have become meaningless gestures at almost every professional or amateur theatrical performance. -- How refreshing then to have a well-earned rapturous...
View ArticleASF: "Pipeline"
Friday night's nearly sold-out audience at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Octagon Theatre cheered at the conclusion of Dominique Morisseau's powerful Pipeline, a robust and muscular 90-minute...
View ArticleHelluva at The Sanctuary: "St. Nicholas"
Award-winning Irish playwright Conor McPherson is a masterful storyteller who started out writing monologue plays and later incorporated monologue-stories into his best known works like The Weir [1999]...
View ArticleTheatre AUM: "The Seagull"
Theatre AUM has an established history of programming a wide variety of productions from World Theatre, so it is not surprising that director Mike Winkelman is staging Christopher Hampton's robust 2008...
View ArticleCloverdale Playhouse: "Dancing at Lughnasa"
Dancing at Lughnasa (1990), Irish playwright Brian Friel's semi-autobiographical award-winning play. quietly and brilliantly signals the end of the 2019 "Ensemble Season" at the Cloverdale Playhouse.At...
View ArticleASF: "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever"
Barbara Robinson's novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever has been a holiday staple since it first hit bookstores in 1971, and its longevity was ensured by her 1988 stage version, played regularly...
View ArticleASF: "All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914"
As a must-see complement to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever that is playing on the Festival Stage, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Octagon Theatre production of All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of...
View ArticleWetumpka Depot: "Little House Christmas"
The Wetumpka Depot's production of Little House Christmas has one more weekend in its almost-sold-out run. Kristy Meanor directs two separate casts of local actors in this rotating rep of James...
View ArticleMillbrook: "The Christmas Carol"
The long holiday season would not be complete without at least one production of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, so the Millbrook Community Players, Inc. have stepped up with their...
View ArticleASF Acting Fellows: "The Cat in the Hat"
With only six public performances [as well as several Schoolfest offerings], the ASF Acting Fellows' production of The Cat in the Hat is aimed at both the young and young at heart. So, there are only...
View ArticleASF: "The Agitators"
Much of the state of the world today confirms philosopher George Santayana's warning that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". -- In the course of experiencing The Agitators...
View ArticleWetumpka Depot: "Big River"
Despite Mark Twain's pronouncement hat there are no moral lessons in Huckleberry Finn, one would be hard-pressed not to discover them in Big River, Roger Miller's and William Hauptman's rousing and...
View ArticleASF Acting Fellows: "And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne...
A common thread resonates among the offerings at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival this season: warnings of the danger of history repeating itself if we ignore our past errors can be found throughout --...
View ArticleCloverdale Playhouse: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"
To inaugurate their 9th Season -- "Seeing Through Different Eyes" -- the Cloverdale Playhouse has chosen the multi-award-winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a remarkable stage...
View ArticleTheatre AUM: "Gruesome Playground Injuries"
Before he came into prominence with award-winning productions of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Guards at the Taj, playwright Rajiv Joseph had penned a lesser-known two-hander. Another unexpected...
View ArticleMillbrook: "Always a Bridesmaid"
Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten have a virtual cottage industry of comedies they've co-written about eccentric Southern women and their exploits that challenge long-term friendships; one...
View ArticleASF: "Alabama Story"
Seven years after it debuted as a staged reading in the "Southern Writers Project", Kenneth Jones's provocative Alabama Story has -- at last -- come home to the Octagon Theatre at the Alabama...
View ArticleASF: "Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges"
Teaching moment for today: "Racism is a grown-up disease, and we must stop using our children to spread it." --Ruby BridgesIn 1960, the then unwitting six-year-old Ruby Bridges was thrust into the...
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