69 stories by "Richard Connema"
This 95-minute drama is performed by two amazing actors, David Strathairn and Dan Clegg, who give vivid performances. I was spellbound by their presentation of this tale of a young man named…
The songs are nice hummable tunes. Duane Poole captures the magic of the Dickens story while finding effective ways of filling it out. The incomparable Jason Graae brilliantly stars as the s…
Fred's Dinner, with a definite trace of theatre, is a stylish, neatly crafted television drama.
This play concerns the alliance between Welsh miners and the lesbian and gay community during the 1984 British miners strike, which also inspired the 2014 film Pride.
... one of the most charming musicals I have seen in a long time. A brilliant cast makes this almost two hour production a delightful experience.
The 42nd Street Moon Company is revisiting one of its earliest hits, the rarely produced Something for the Boys with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Dorothy Fields. The company, …
The show is an irrepressibly bubbly mix of song and dance that sparkles, thanks to the great direction of Cindy Goldfield, who also did the glistening choreography. Tap, the Charleston, and …
Playwright Laural Meade has each of the main characters relate from their own perspective what happened in this crime of passion in a unique style of theatre that includes Victorian melodram…
The characters are pre-historic yeasts; their aspirations, feelings and challenges echo ours in modern day. The concept, execution, cast and design are all well done.
Director Diane Paulus has raised the bar to dizzying heights of imagination, amalgamation and originality with this new approach. It is a brilliant, magical production and the energy level i…
This is indeed a strange but interesting 90 minutes with the talented Australian-born singer and dancer who is a cross between Liza Minnelli and Lucille Ball, with an intoxicating touch of M…
Marin Shakespeare Company is currently offering their third and final production of the season, an attractive presentation of Oscar Wilde's social comedy An Ideal Husband.
The historical drama is based on a press conference in which heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali introduces his "secret strategy man," the former Hollywood comedic actor Stepin Fetchit,…
This two-hour production comes to vivid life as, in 1895 Scotland Yard, detective Avery Sly arrives at an asylum where he will interrogate four inmates about the disappearance of a mysteriou…
The action takes place on Sunday, October 14, 1990, on a set in a television studio. There is a large blank screen as the backdrop where photos of Leonard Bernstein and family and others wil…
The fast-paced production, thanks to first time director Alex Kirschner, takes place on Isla Nublar, and island made famous by Michael Crichton and more famous by Steven Spielberg.
San Francisco Opera has produced a glorious and bold recreation of the 1927 version of the show with a few cuts from the original version (the Dahomey dance scene has been excluded) with 14 …
The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival is starting their 2014 season with a program of six intriguing plays ranging from the zany 1925 musical that starred the Marx Brothers, The…
42nd Street Moon is presenting its very first world premiere musical at the Eureka Theatre ... Magic Theatre is currently presenting the world premiere of Scottish playwright Linda McLean's …
San Francisco Playhouse is presenting the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson's superb new drama Bauer based on the life of brilliant abstract artist Rudolf Bauer.
In a stylized staging, director Jasson Minadakis has assembled a splendid cast of mostly local actors to present a fascinating and sensual evening of entertainment ... [Del Shore] has now wr…
Loeb, who wrote First Person Shooter and Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party, now goes into the world of paranoia in this excellent 90-minute drama.
The production materializes as a moving accolade to the genius of the original.
This Carrie is definitely worth having and much of it is surprising good ... TheatreWorks is currently presenting Kenneth Lin's Warrior Class ... The last part of the act is the illusionist …
There's a lot to like in this production, including the appealing and striking Jessie Mueller as Carole King. Although the plot doesn't live up to the songs, there is no denying that this sc…
