Most of the productions I'll review over the next few days will end this weekend MAY 7--See them before they close! Beginning with: BECKETT IN BRIEF: A stunning troika of Beckett plays brought to luminous life by an equally stunning trinity of actors led by the incandescent Will Lyman who appears in each. Lyman's extraordinary elegance, timing, [...]
HAPPY DAYS are when we get to see a hugely gifted actress hold the stage almost alone, practically without moving, for two hours, and conjure up the entire universal human experience. That is EXACTLY what happened this week when Brooke Adams and her husband and co-star Tony Shalhoub appeared in Samuel Beckett's OTHER absurdist masterpiece HAPPY DAYS, presented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in residence at Babson [...]
If you see only one play in this life--it might have to be WAITING FOR GODOT. Samuel Beckett's game-changing, landmark tragicomedy that yanks us out of ourselves so we can see the outlines-- and perhaps the substance-- of our own existence, is a mind blower. And the production by Ireland's Gare St. Lazare Players and [...]
