Post Tagged with: "Playcrafters of Skippack"

Often considered American playwright Clifford Odets’s masterpiece, AWAKE AND SING shows us a few years in the lives of the Bergers, a Jewish family living in the Bronx and fighting for survival during the Great Depression. Guided by director Arnie Finkel, the Playcrafters’ cast effectively compares the sinking feelings of [...]

Show: CAUGHT IN THE NET Theater: Playcrafters of Skippack Theater Website: http://www.playcrafters.org Show runs: 06/27/2013 to 07/13/2013 A sequel to Run for Your Wife. Gavin Smith, son of John and Barbara Smith, ends up meeting Vicki Smith, daughter of John and Mary Smith, online. They fall in love, and they [...]

Show: SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET Theater: Playcrafters of Skippack Theater Website: http://www.playcrafters.org Show runs: 08/08/2013 to 08/22/2013 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and libretto by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based [...]

As five very accomplished actors performed Ivan Menchell’s THE CEMETERY CLUB on Friday night, the rain was pelting the roof. This only added to the intimacy of the production, which works beautifully on Playcrafters’ small stage. Due to the totally natural performances, I, as an audience member, felt like I [...]

One can hardly go through a list of musical theater greats without having Rodgers and Hammerstein at the very top. They just go together like peanut butter and jelly or milk and cookies. A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING celebrates the dynamic duo with a revue of some of the greatest [...]

Friday evening was the opening for Playcrafter’s production of ZOMBIE PROM. The night was just as the title suggests, a silly fun night for teens.  A light-hearted romp, Erin Tiffany and Zach Heller lead us through the romantic tale of these teen star-crossed lovers, when fate takes a morbid turn, [...]

It’s not every day that a theatergoer opens up a program and sees an acknowledgement to Wegman’s grocery store, thanking them for providing sausages. However, it’s not every day that an American audience gets to see a touch of British comedy tradition acted out on stage.  Such is the case [...]

With explosive family situations and a panorama of unhappy marriages, Tennessee Williams’ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF is a classic for a reason. Set in the span of one summer evening, it’s the story of one family in crisis and teeming with secrets. Margaret (Marisa Brown) is stuck in [...]

For those of you nostalgic for times gone by (CD players that cost $900, Billy Idol, and “cellular” phones that are the size of your head), this production of THE WEDDING SINGER is the cure-all for that. Consistently producing some of the best theater in the area, Playcrafters of Skippack [...]

Talking about homosexuality in 1934 was taboo, and has been for many years thereafter. That is why Lillian Hellman’s THE CHILDREN’S HOUR, a play set in the early 1930’s, raised such a ruckus when Hellman’s play was first performed 1934 when she was only 29 years old. In fact, while [...]

The jokes began Friday night before my friend and I even set foot in the play space. My husband had to bow out of attending due to a prior commitment, and of course, the reason he gave was because he was already “an ideal husband.” As we were standing in [...]

Neil Simon wrote THE ODD COUPLE in two versions-one with male leads, one with female. Oscar and Felix give way to Olive and Florence in the version being produced by Playcrafters of Skippack.  Simon lost nothing of the bite, the plot and the typical one-liners he is famous for in the [...]

A beautiful set, well-designed in form, content, structure and color, greets your senses as you enter the barn at Playcrafters of Skippack for their production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s RABBIT HOLE.  It is the home of Becca and Howie Corbett of Larchmont, NY in modern day.  The story is one which rips [...]

Let’s see if you can relate to any of this … you’re a writer with writer’s block (It happens.) … everyone’s raggin’ on you (Can you stand it?) … you just want to stay in your pj’s (OK, you’re depressed.) … it’s time to unload the family home which is [...]

I hadn’t seen a production of CABARET since the 1998 Broadway revival at Studio 54 starring the brilliant Alan Cumming as the emcee and the late Natasha Richardson as Sally Bowles. I remember walking out of that show with a strange mixture of awe, sadness, and shock. I found myself [...]

As soon as I noticed that the music being played as the audience entered the theater was Spike Jones, I had an inkling of what was to come. THE MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940 is set in the mansion library of Elsa von Grossenkneuten in Chappaqua NY in 1940. Nothing [...]

Readers, you don’t have to be a teen or a tween to enjoy 13: THE MUSICAL, by Jason Robert Brown and Dan Elish, a light, sweet story about the trials and tribulations of entering the 13th year of life, but it helps if you’re young at heart, have the sense [...]

(He Said….) by [author 3] Playcrafters of Skippack opened last night with STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling. This is the well-known show about Truvy Jones and the ladies of Chinaquapin Parish, Louisiana who come to Truvy’s beauty salon. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is what the more chauvinistic of us would classify as [...]

The book of PIPPIN, by Roger O. Hirson, concerns the journey in search of self worth of Pippin the oldest son of Charlemagne. He goes through war, sex (lots and lots of sex in this production) and home life on his personal quest. On this loose premise is hung a [...]

A recipe for fun: take 3 love stories, 1 spy or more, add in some twists and turns, blend in 7 very competent actors playing 18 parts, and 4 harried stage hands lugging lots of furniture.  Sprinkle liberally with laughs and you have Playcrafters production of local playwright Michael Hollinger’s [...]