I love, love, love David Hyde Pierce. I will drag my husband, or anyone else who is near, to anything that he is in and I have never been disappointed; until now.
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Philadelphia has a lively and vibrant theater scene and some very interesting things happen here. The Legend of Georgia McBride is one of those things.
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Having loved this Ars Nova production in its pop-up, dinner theater incarnation in the Meat Packing district several years ago (starring a pre-Hamilton Phillipa Soo as Natasha), there was no doubt that I was going to a new production starring Josh Grobin. The fact that Mr. Grobin was out sick the night we went caused me to hesitate, but I am so glad that we decided to proceed. Scott Stangland did a marvelous job as Pierre and another of the reasons that I couldn’t see Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown enough times, Amber Gray, reprised her wonderfully wicked role as Helene.
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I have seen a lot of theatre and I can honestly say that I have never seen, or heard, anything like Simon McBurney’s The Encounter.
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Women of a Certain Age takes place on the eve of Election Day, 2016. All of the action takes place around the kitchen table with the actual preparation of a meal occurring, pulling the audience in visually, aurally and through the scents which begin to waft through the intimate theater space.
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Set in a tea room in a small South African town in 1950, Master Harold and the Boys is a look at apartheid both raw and touching. Master Harold is the teenage son of the tea room owner and the ‘boys’ are the two black tea-room employees, Willy and Sam.
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Coriolanus is Shakespeare’s tragic story of a brilliant soldier Caius Martius (Coriolanus) who, though temperamentally unsuited to it, with the encouragement of his friends, admirers and very domineering mother tries his hand at politics. Having been raised and forged to respect and exhibit only brute force, he, ultimately unwilling to play by the rules and the will of the people he is to govern, is banished.
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