Posts Tagged ‘Christopher Durang’
The Roustabouts Return With a Mixed Bag Bill of Short Plays
The Roustabouts return to live theatre by presenting Christopher Durang’s For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls at Moxie Theatre. While the title selection is hilarious, the other three short plays that comprise the evening are a mixed bag….
Read MoreOld Globe Has Plenty Dancing and Donna McKechnie Too
A full buffet of dances styles, stories and settings spills over the Old Globe Stage for ‘In Your Arms,’ a musical memory play graced by the presence of none other than Donna McKechnie, who won musical immortality in ‘A Chorus Line.’ The original.
Read MoreDiversionary’s Good ‘Bathwater’: The A’s, E’s, I’s, O’s and U’s Have It
Playwright Christopher Durang has hauled out the big guns in ‘Baby with the Bathwater,’ his ode to lousy parenting and lousy parents. In this very good Diversionary Theatre entry, Helen and John Dingleberry never knew what hit ’em.
Read MoreDurang Herds VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE Onto Old Globe Stage
Chekhov characters need stuff too and, for the Old Globe Theatre, Christopher Durang checks in on their modern inheritors’ yearning up there in Bucks County. Sample dialogue: “Why is he always taking off his clothes?” “Because he can.”
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