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Keeping Afloat
Review of Split Knuckle Theatre's Endurance When is a Hartford insurance company like a ship stuck in ice in the Antarctic? When they’re both sinking. Split Knuckle Theatre’s Endurance parallels the...
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50th Anniversary Season of the Long Wharf Theatre
Now that the International Festival of Arts & Ideas has come and gone, and even the Yale Summer Cabaret is on a hiatus until it resumes on the 11th, what is a theater person to do? One possibility...
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Bygone Tunes of Boomer Summers
The Bikinis, a 60s Musical Beach Party offers a fun night tripping down Memory Lane—a lane paved with some of the big hits of the era. The four women—Annie (Valerie Fagan), her sister Jodi (Lori...
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Our Town Opens
This Wednesday, October 8, previews for the first show of the Long Wharf Theatre’s 50th anniversary season begin. And that first show is an American classic: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Not only an...
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On the Town
Review of Our Town at Long Wharf Theatre Our Town cast A lasting impression made by the current production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, directed by Gordon Edelstein, at the Long Wharf is the sheer...
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A Meeting of the Minds
Review of Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Long Wharf Theatre “So, a guy walks into a bar . . .” is a familiar opening of many jokes. In the case of the play currently showing at the Long Wharf Theatre,...
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Ghost Dance
Review of Forever at Long Wharf Theatre Forever, the latest play by playwright/performer Dael Orlandersmith, invites its audience to consider what happens when a born storyteller undertakes what she...
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Kvetching Cousins
Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews, directed by Oliver Butler, brings to the Long Wharf the sharpest comedy I’ve seen there. This is comedy that draws blood, where the situations, so far from smacking of sit-com...
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Mean Streets
Review of Brownsville Song (b-side for Tray) at Long Wharf Theatre Kimber Lee’s Brownsville Song (b-side for Tray), at the Long Wharf Theatre, directed by Eric Ting, begins and ends with strong...
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A League of Their Own
Review of The Second Mrs. Wilson at Long Wharf Theatre A play about loyalty, love, and deception should strike a few nerves, and when the story unfolds in what are often called “the corridors of...
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