Posts Tagged ‘Dana Hooley’
New Fortune’s ‘Birthday Party’ Puzzles and Enlightens
What if you have a play consisting entirely of unreliable narrators?
Read MoreGreat ‘Henry V’: What’s Old Is New
Henry V loved France so much that he took it (and Catherine of Valois) for his own in 1415’s Battle of Agincourt. The story’s more complicated than all that, of course — and the debut of New Fortune Theatre is just the occasion on which to tell it, through a very good ‘Henry V.’
Read More‘Happy Days’: The ‘Bad Boys’ Are Up to Their Old Tricks
“We have met the enemy,” cartoonist Walt Kelly’s Pogo said, “and he is us.” Playwright Samuel Beckett declared the same thing in his play “Happy Days,” current entry from the reborn Sledgehammer_. No doubt about it: Sam’s play is a lot funnier than a platitudinous opossum any day.
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