Leading Ladies: Undaunted in drag
In 1952, two underemployed, not-so-very-good British Shakespearean actors travel the Moose Lodge circuit in rural Pennsylvania. Audiences are sparse, and Jack (Phillip J. Berns) and Leo (Sam [...]
Matilda: ‘the anarchy of childhood’
Roald Dahl, with his colorful stories and even more colorful language, was known for often outrageous children’s stories. (We were great fans when the children were younger!) For Lakewood [...]
A dark and stormy farce!
It is a dark and stormy night when Tristram (Spencer Conway) arrives at a rickety three-story home called The Pines in the British countryside to assist his firm’s client, Roland (Jeremy [...]
Countdown to Fertile Ground
“Abundant Acts of Creation” hit stages all over the metropolitan area when the 10th annual Fertile Ground A City-Wide Festival of New Works kicks off on January 24 in venues all over the greater [...]
To Kill a Mockingbird at Lakewood Theatre
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s seminal story of racism and loss of innocence in the Depression-era south, was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in [...]
Cabaret is a timely reminder
Cabaret is one of those musicals I never tire of, and its opening at Lakewood Theatre last Friday certainly bodes well for the 2017-2018 theatre season in the greater Portland area. Based on a [...]
Sci-Fi comedy pokes fun at Earthlings – Visit to a Small Planet at Lakewood Theatre
Lakewood Theatre opened its 65th season on July 7 with Gore Vidal’s satiric sci-fi comedy, Visit to a Small Planet. A biting satire, the play is light on science and surprisingly prescient [...]
Standing up for civilization
Annette and Alan Raleigh (Don Alder and Sarah Lucht) and Michal and Veronica Novak (David Sikking and Marilyn Stacey) all want to stand up for civilization. After their 11-year-old boys engage in [...]