Screen Play,
with a plot borrowed liberally from a classic 1942 American
film, this new play by A.R. Gurney is a tale of politics,
history, the city of Buffalo, and a love ruined by the
Bush-Gore election of 2000.
Closes
June 25, 2005. |
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FEATURED
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Reviewed
by Bryn Manion
June
25, 2005
The Waltz of Elementary Particles,
a devastating and fragmented world consumed with video
screens, instant gratification, and personal space.
Closes June 25, 2005. |
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new reviews include:
Co-Op:
A Comedy of Epic Pretensions,
a musical farce about a heroic board of directors that crusades
against corruption, mildew, and poor building finances.
Reviewed by Lauren Snyder. Closes June 17, 2005.
Gravediggers,
an
expressionistic satire on the "Divided States of America."
Follows two gravediggers, a mother and a son on a journey
into complete complacency in a world gone mad.
Reviewed
by Grant Tyler Peterson.
Closes June 25, 2005.
Little
Mary, deals
with a conservative Roman Catholic Cardinal and his protege,a
progressive California Bishop, whose lives are thrown into
turmoil when a 15-yearold Mexican-American girl in their
care creates an international sensation by claiming that
the seven babies she carries are the children of God.
Reviewed by Marlon Hurt. Closes June 26, 2005.
Little
Suckers, bizarre
story of a bizarre family who bizarrely copes with loneliness…each
member in their own bizarre little way. Reviewed by Rebecca
Halpin. Closes June 25, 2005.
Name
Day, a new drama by Serbian
American playwright, Jovanka
Bach, about letting go of the past in order to forgive
and to heal.
Reviewed by Ellen Carpenter. Closes June 19, 2005.
Nights
of Wrath,
takes
a searing look at the ethics of anti-Nazi terrorism and
pro-status-quo collaboration.
Reviewed by Daniel Burson. Closes June 26, 2005.
The
Persians…a comedy about war with five songs,
adapted
from the play by Aeschylus,
new production
from the experimental theatre company Waterwell. Reviewed
by Julie Sharbutt. Closes June 18, 2005.
True
West, Sam Shepard's play about
two polar opposite brothers and the conflict of double-nature;
the manner in which one person can have two starkly opposed
personalities.
Reviewed by Timothy John Papp. Closes June 25, 2005.
Work,
takes
us into a world of employee sex scandals, nepotism, body
odor, insider trading, subservience to the boss, the gay
guy, falsified documents and the inevitable restructuring.
Reviewed by Sean Michael O'Donnell. Closes June 23, 2005.
Happy Theatergoing!
Joyce Wan & Bruce Janicke
The Editors
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