We grow up, seek partners and then we die. That’s the storyline of “Thornton Wilder’s Our Town”. There’s very little cutesy and kitschy about the play which begins in 1901 in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. So why has it become a classic? These are …Read more

As we approach Mother’s Day, it was fitting that two of the plays I saw this week had mothers as central characters, and they could not have been more different. “Mary Jane” is loving, self-sacrificing and always positive, while Phyliss in “Mother Pl …Read more

photo by Julieta Cervantes Alfie is a quiet, ordinary man who is a ticket-taker on a bus during the day, but by evening he is the director of the players at St Imelda’s Church. The power of the theater transforms Alfie and his loyal company of thespi …Read more