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All in the family feud

14Jul16

Deborah Zoe Laufer’s comedy ‘The Last Schwartz’ at Gloucester Stage By MARK SARDELLA GLOUCESTER — The Last Schwartz, by Deborah Zoe Laufer is a play about family ties – the ones that bind, the ones that bend and the ones that break. In the opening scene, Herb Schwartz’s wife Bonnie (Brianne Beatrice) is describing to […]

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Tags: Andrea Goldman, Brianne Beatrice, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Family, Gabriel Kuttner, Glen Moore, Gloucester Stage, Gloucester Stage Company, Jewish, Judaism, Mark Sardella, Paul Melendy, Paula Plum, The Last Schwartz, theater, theatre, Veronica Anastasio Wiseman, Wakefield Daily Item

Albatross soars at Gloucester Stage

23Jun16

By MARK SARDELLA Whether or not you have read or studied Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, you are undoubtedly familiar with a few of the phrases and idioms that the work gave to the English language. “Water, water, every where,/ Nor any drop to drink,” is one. But the metaphor […]

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Tags: Albatross, Benjamin Evett, Cristina Todesco, Frances Nelson McSherry, Garrett Herzig, Gloucester Stage, Leslie Sears, mariner, Mark Sardella, Matthew Spamgler, play, Rick Lombardo, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, sailor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, sea, ship, theater, theatre, Wakefield Daily Item

Stoneham Theatre’s ‘Laura’ an intriguing noir

10May16

By MARK SARDELLA Laura Hunt is dead. It was a shotgun blast to the face as she answered the door of her posh New York City Apartment. The only question was who killed the beautiful and successful advertising executive – and why? In Stoneham Theatre’s production of Laura, answering that question falls to NYC Police […]

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Tags: Alexander Cook, Chris Larson, cope, Dashiell hammett, Deb Sullivan, detective, dick, Dominique D. Burford, drama, Eliot Purcell, Erica Desautels, gumshoe, James Tolman, Jasmine Rush, Laura, Liana Asim, Mark Sardella, Misaki Nishimiya, Molly Kimmerling, murder, mystery, Philip Marlowe, play, Raymond Chandler, Sam Spade, Sarah Gazdowicz, stage, Steven Barkhimer, Stoneham, Stoneham Theatre, theater, Wakefield Daily Item

Wakefield author Bob McLaughlin publishes history of ‘Magic Mountain’

07May16

By MARK SARDELLA It all started when he purchased nine Pleasure Island postcards at a local church antiques show. Since then, Wakefield’s Robert McLaughlin has written five books and turned himself into one of the country’s leading experts on American theme parks. His latest book, Magic Mountain was published last week and tells the story […]

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Tags: amusement parks, Arcadia Publishing, Baby Boomers, Bob McLaughlin, C.V. Wood, Colorado, Disneyland, Freedomland, Golden Colorado, Heritage Square, Magic Mountain, Marco Engineering, Mark Sardella, New York City, Pleasure Island, Robert McLaughlin, theme parks, trolly parks, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Walt Disney, Walter F. Cobb, westerns

Art crime expert Anthony Amore entertains Sweetser audience

06Apr16

by MARK SARDELLA For nearly two hours, Anthony Amore entertained the packed audience at The Savings Bank Theater with tales of art theft and the sometimes colorful but often inept characters that perpetrate such crimes. Amore was the opening speaker in the 2016 Sweetser Lecture Series in Wakefield, Massachusetts. As head of security and chief […]

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Tags: Anthony Amore, Art, art crime, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, paintings, Rembrandt, Stealing Rembrandts, Sweetser Lecture Series, The Art of the Con, The Savings Bank Theater, Vermeer, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Worcester Art Museum

Hunger games

04Mar16

It’s Restaurant Week in Wakefield, as proclaimed by the Chamber of Commerce. My Facebook friends would tell you that based on my check-ins, every week is restaurant week for me. Hey, at least I’m supporting the local economy.

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Tags: bistro, Brothers Deli & Restaurant, Caryn's, cuisine, dining, Duck Walk, eateries, eating, Facebook, food, foodie, gourmet, Heavenly Licks, Kara Conley, Leanne Wheeler, Mark Sardella, Phuket, Restaurant Week, restaurants, Ristorante Molise, social media, Thai, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Wakefield-Lynnfield Chamber of Commerce, ZuZu's Cafe

Apples to Apples

01Mar16

“Sorry” continues the Apple family saga at Stoneham Theatre Memory, like family, is about connections. And Sorry, currently on stage at Stoneham Theatre, is about both. Sorry is part 3 of Richard Nelson’s series, “The Apple Family Plays.” (The first in the cycle, “That Hopey Changey Thing,” was produced by Stoneham Theatre last year. Gloucester […]

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Tags: Apple Family Plays, Bill Mootos, drama, Joel Colodner, Karen MacDonald, Laura Lautreille, Mark Sardella, memory, Nile Scott Hawver, play, Rhinebeck New York, Richard Nelson, Sarah Newhouse, Sorry, stage, theater, Wakefield Daily Item Stoneham Theatre, Weylin Symes

Bonnie and Clyde ride again in Concord

12Nov15

by Mark Sardella (Wakefield Daily Item) “It’s not often a community theater gets the opportunity to produce the New England premier production of a Broadway musical,” says former longtime Wakefield resident Nancy Curran Willis. She is directing the New England premier of Bonnie and Clyde at The Umbrella Community Arts Center in Concord, Mass. The […]

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Tags: Aaron Chow, Adam Sherkanowski, Andrea Giangreco, Ariel Sargent, Arthur Comer, Ashleigh Vittum, Becca Griffing, Ben DiScipio, Bonnie and Clyde, Brad Amidon, Brian Boruta, Broadway, Cathy Merlo, Colin Lester Fleming, Concord MA, Connell Benn, David Rodrigues, Don Black, Frank Wildhorn, Glenn Kane, Jim Ansart, Joel Hersh, Ludovica Burtone, Mark Sardella, musical, Nancy Curran Willis, Nate Ramsayer, Nicholas V. Raponi, Owen Reinhold, Pam Sontag, Pat Lawrence, Paul Alperin, Rusty Chandler, Ruth Fontanella, Sarah Cowell, Sarajane Morse Mullins, Sean Crosley, Texas, theater, theatre, Thomas Carroll, Tim McShea, Tom Young, Tristyn Sepersky, Umbrella Community Arts Center, Wakefield Daily Item, West Dallas

‘Normalcy’ comes up a measure short

29Oct15

by Mark Sardella (Wakefield Daily Item) If there’s one thing that A Measure of Normalcy, the relentlessly manic 90-minute play by Lucas Baisch could use it might be a measure of normalcy. The play runs through Nov. 1 at Gloucester Stage, and it was written by Baisch, the theater’s 2015 Playwriting Apprentice. Normalcy follows an […]

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Tags: A Measure of Normalcy, cartoons, gecko, Gloucester Stage, Lucas Baisch, Mark Sardella, millennials, play, theater, theatre, Wakefield Daily Item

Classes clash in Horovitz’s ‘Gloucester Blue’

24Sep15

by Mark Sardella There are no role models in Israel Horovitz‘s new play, unless you count liars, philanderers, extortionists and murderers among your heroes. But if you like your humor black with a touch of Coen brothers absurdism, you’ll enjoy Gloucester Blue, currently in an extended run at Gloucester Stage through Oct. 11.

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Tags: Aerosmith, Esme Allen, Francisco Solorzano, Gloucester Massachusetts, Gloucester Stage, Israel Horovitz, Lewis D. Wheeker, Mark Sardella, play theatre, Robert Walsh., theater, Wakefield Daily Item

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Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

All in the family feud

Albatross soars at Gloucester Stage

Stoneham Theatre’s ‘Laura’ an intriguing noir

Wakefield author Bob McLaughlin publishes history of ‘Magic Mountain’

Art crime expert Anthony Amore entertains Sweetser audience

Apples to Apples

Bonnie and Clyde ride again in Concord

‘Normalcy’ comes up a measure short

Classes clash in Horovitz’s ‘Gloucester Blue’

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