See what the critics are saying about The Gift at Park Theatre. Let's see what the critics are saying about the new play Check out what the critics are saying about the new play The show officially opens tonight at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Read the reviews! See what the critics are saying and read the reviews for the production here.
The touring production of the recent Broadway revival of Parade is now on tour across the United States. What did the critics think? Read all the reviews. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship, is not a play about C. Lewis and J. Tolkien as authors, but as friendsβfriends who have hurt each other, who feel unseen, and who struggle, in the way that sometimes men do, to be truly vulnerable with one another.
The play, originally commissioned by Jeff Daniels in for his own small town Michigan theater company, is set in a southwestern Missouri rural community at a time not specifically named.
Lanford Wilson is best known for his naturalistic use of dialogue. He was from Lebanon, Missouri. That bundle of Broadway-centric bubbliness, Klea Blackhurst banished the winter blues at Birdland. Two of St. Courtney Bailey is arguably the most talented playwright in St. Louis creating new works. Satterfield is a playwright who has a knack for writing mysterious stories with unexpected twists. Fifteen Dogs was adapted for the stage and directed by Marie Farsi. In approaching the stage adaptation, Farsi discovered that the narrative was delivered in a fashion akin to epic poems like Homer's The Odyssey, quite befitting the two scheming Olympians as the puppet masters of this story.
Denise Fennell is just a delight in this role, and she plays off the audience so well that you would swear Sister is a real person. She can handle anyone, anytime, and mine every audience for comedic gold.
