There is something ancient and forbidding about Annie Baker’s play, John , now at Road Less Traveled Theater. Even the title, which refers to the man who never appears in the play, but who makes frequent intrusions into the action, is somehow haunting, even threatening. The arrival of a blind charac
Everything about the production of Mel Brooks’ The Producers currently onstage at the Kavinoky Theatre suggests a determination to start the season with a roar. Even before auditions were scheduled, excitement rippled through the theater community when it was determined that Buffalo musical theater
In the opening scene of Noël Coward’s comic masterpiece, Private Lives , when Amanda’s new husband assures her that she is entirely “normal,” she objects, “I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”
Donna Hoke’s new play, Sons & Lovers , is a clever little invention about a middle-aged woman named Ellen who is at a crossroads in her life. Hoke has positioned her female protagonist between two tales of desire, neither of which is her own. On the one hand, there is her son’s desire for another ma
above: Actor John Seidman (with hat) as “Selsdon/Burglar” in NOISES OFF at the Bratton Theater. Credit Chautauqua Theater Company
Above “Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare-in-Delaware Park”
