Here are all of the shows we wish we could get out and see this week! Take your pick from our list of great theatre escapes for the week of January 30th, 2011:
Here are all of the shows we wish we could get out and see this week! Take your pick from our list of great theatre escapes for the week of January 23rd, 2011:
I love this play, I love this production, I love this adaptation, and I love the wigs (they’re all fuscia)!
That’s the basic report of my response to Tarragon Theatre‘s Artistic Director Richard Rose’s production of Molière‘s masterpiece the Misanthrope. Now playing until February 6th.
At first I was skeptical about the update of the text, which moves the world of 1666 Baroque decadence to the contemporary London scene. Gossip rags are scattered about the pink and white hotel suite of a rising young American “It Girl,” with her face on the covers. Her critic-lover Alceste (originally played by Molière himself) is in the midst of a moral reawakening, critical of every aspect of this shallow and hypocritical existence. Continue reading Review: The Misanthrope (Tarragon)→
Here are all of the shows we wish we could get out and see this week! Take your pick from our list of great theatre escapes for the week of January 16th, 2011:
Here are all of the shows we wish we could get out and see this week! Take your pick from our list of great theatre escapes for the week of December 12th, 2010: