Category: time_off/theater_reviews
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STAGE REVIEW: ‘A Christmas Carol’ at McCarter Theatre
By Bob Brown This is it. The last call for McCarter Theatre’s annual staging of Dickens A Christmas Carol in its present production, now playing through Dec. 27. David Thompson’s adaptation of this Christmas tale has been delighting Princeton audiences for each of the last 16 years. Returning as director is Michael Unger. As you’ve…
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STAGE REVIEW: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ at Kelsey Theatre
By Anthony Stoeckert This is the year of It’s a Wonderful Life. The Princeton Garden Theatre will screen the classic movie on Dec. 10, and two stage versions are happening in our area this season. Bucks County Playhouse is bringing back it’s old-time radio play of the evergreen story, but before that, M&M Stage Productions…
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A Night of One-Act Plays: It’s laughter all around with these farces from Princeton Summer Theater
By Bob Brown I laughed myself silly at Hamilton Murray Theater, and you will too if you catch the two one-act farces being staged by Princeton Summer Theater through Aug. 2. These are in keeping with the Princeton Summer Theater’s theme “of adaptation and myth, exploring how stories are retold and passed down through time.”…
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STAGE REVIEW: ‘Eugene Onegin,’ a play no longer ‘lost’
‘In performance, the fluid, lilting verse is reminiscent of Shakespeare or of Richard Wilbur’s versification of Moliere … a most beautiful production, aurally and visually. Words can’t do By Bob Briwn On Feb. 9, a work that had been buried in Russian archives for more than seven decades stepped into daylight on a Princeton…
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‘Orange Woman: A Ballad for a Moor’
A senior thesis from Roger Q. Mason is staged at McCarter Theatre. By Bob Brown Roger Q. Mason, Princeton ‘08, has come up with as imaginative and entertaining a senior thesis as you’re likely to see on stage. His play, Orange Woman, is a whirlwind fling through a slice in the life and times of…