Front Row Center By Michael Warren Noises OffBy Michael FraynDirected by Dave McIntosh This play, first performed in 1982, is described as a farce. It would more properly be called a lunatic satire. Most of the elements of farce are missing. As Dave McIntosh points out in the program notes, the characters are
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For Kathy When the black rider comes with iron fistbetween the stones of dark and lightto stop your breath and blind your sightand take you, bound, into that night:you are not easy in your rest.Not easy seeking out the lightand why this dark’s so hard and brightand nothing left to be confessed:you give us
Front Row Center By Michael Warren PROOFBy David AuburnDirected by Randy Warren In 2001, this play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and also the Tony Award for Best Play. It’s an interesting play, but it does have some serious drawbacks. It fails to resolve the central issue – and indeed the main character
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Clever Little LiesBy Joe DiPietroDirected by Collette Clavadetscher This play is described as a comedy, but it’s really a sad commentary on love and marriage. One of the characters says that the “pursuit of happiness” is the source of our problems – we think that we have a
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Season 54 at LLT The upcoming Season 54 promises to be entertaining and thought-provoking. First up is Clever Little Lies, directed by Collette Clavadescher, a comedy by Joe DiPietro which opens on September 14. This play was recently read at Naked Stage, so some attendees will know the
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren The Clean HouseBy Sarah RuhlDirected By Russell Mack The Clean House is a quirky imaginative comedy about dust, life and love. It opens with “Matilde” who is a Brazilian housekeeper, telling us a long incomprehensible joke in Portuguese. All the best jokes (she tells us later) are impossible
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Fiddler on the RoofBased on stories by Sholem AleichemDirected by Dave McIntosh This is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1905. The original Broadway production of the show,
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Agnes of GodBy John PielmeierDirected by Paul Kloegman Evidently, John Pielmeier was inspired to write this play after seeing an article in a newspaper about an event that occurred in a convent in Brighton, New York, just outside the city limits of Rochester. However, the play is entirely
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Calico Cat She left us softly, just like that,Without a mew, without much fuss,She was discreet, a friendly catWho lived her simple life with us,And never gave a tit for tat.She let me feed her, stroke her tail,Or sometimes if I quietly satShe’d find my lap and purr a whileAs if to say “Let’s
Front Row Center By Michael Warren Calendar GirlsBy Tim FirthDirected by Candace Luciano This play is based on a real-life event. In 1999, eleven middle-aged ladies from the Rylstone and District Women’s Institute in Yorkshire, England, decided to produce a calendar in order to raise enough money to buy a new settee for the
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