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If your work week was endless, your fridge is on the fritz, and you accidentally mixed in a black towel with your white laundry, look no further than the Dramateurs’ production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS for your feel-good-again cure. What can you say about this long-running Off-Broadway (and later [...]

Broadway musicals and certain names go hand in hand…Rodgers and Hammerstein, Patti LuPone, Angela Lansbury, and of course, Stephen Sondheim. While it’s always great to see newer musicals thrive, such as WICKED and RENT, it’s just as good to see the classics revived. Such is the case with the Dramateurs’ [...]

Every once in awhile, a playhouse will devote their stage to a young people’s production. That is the case in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL at The Barn, where the oldest performers have just graduated from high school. It is often in these productions where the most joy is found, because one [...]

Ah, the glories of the French Farce, especially as created by that master Georges Feydeau. The numberless doors opening and closing by crazed madmen, the split second timing, and the delirious laughter of the audience. Described by sages as “a precision watch running too fast” or “a well oiled machine” [...]

Broadway these days seems to be turning everything into musicals. If you head to The Great White Way now, you’ll see billboards advertising renditions of SPIDERMAN, SISTER ACT, and the tearjerker, GHOST. LITTLE WOMEN and Broadway musical don’t sound like they should even remotely go together. But Allan Knee, Jason [...]

Any time that Shakespeare is tackled by community theatre, it can be hit or miss. In his tragedies, lines need to be delivered with an incredible amount of emotion. If even one actor stumbles over a word, the entire production is thrown off. Well, in the Dramateurs’ production of MACBETH, [...]

The Dramateurs, Inc. at The Barn Playhouse open with MACBETH, October 7th: “Shakespeare’s brooding tragedy of ambition, temptation, and treachery digs directly into the dark recesses of man’s inner conflict. The mysterious visions of three witches send Macbeth and his lady on a murderous rampage toward the Scottish Throne. Attaining [...]

Having had the pleasure of seeing a few productions of the Dramateurs at The Barn, I know one thing…they know how to cast.  Having one or two cast members in principal (or even non-principal roles, in some cases) who are miscast can be a disaster.  The Dramateurs time and time [...]

Dramateurs at the Barn in Jeffersonville opened last Friday with a seldom-seen Thornton Wilder comedy, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. This unusual comedy follows the Antrobus family through 3 eras in “history,” the Ice Age (combined with a normal household in New Jersey,) a more modern Atlantic City Boardwalk, and [...]

Who could have predicted that Jonathan Larson’s RENT would have turned into the worldwide sensation it has turned into? RENT is not only Larson’s baby, having written the book and the score, but it is also his legacy. Larson died unexpectedly at age 35 of an aortic aneuryism before RENT [...]

  Dramateurs at the Barn in Jeffersonville opened its latest offering, A PIECE OF MY HEART by Shirley Lauro on Friday, October 1. This is the story of six women who go to Vietnam for different reasons, yet share experiences, both overseas and when they return home. As the play [...]

The latest offering by the Dramateurs at the Barn in Jeffersonville is THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel. It provides an interesting twist on the classic “boy meets girl” story, placing the action in Florence, Italy and the love interests having to overcome not only [...]

The Dramateurs at the Barn Playhouse opened their latest offering, THE PRODUCERS by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan on June 11. THE PRODUCERS is the story of a has-been Broadway producer, Max Bialystock, his partner Leo Bloom, and their attempts to intentionally mount a Broadway flop. As Leo (an accountant [...]