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Fences can be built and they can be torn down. They can keep people out, or they can keep them in. In August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Fences,” currently at the Gloucester Stage Company, Troy (played by Daver Morrison) is a former Negro League baseball star, gifted with the same power to hit the […]
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Tags: August Wilson, baseball, Bezawit Strong, Daver Morrison, Eric Engel, Fences, Gloucester Stage, Gregory Marlow, Jacqui Parker, Jared Michael Brown, Jermel Nakia, Mark Sardella, theater, theatre, Wakefield Daily Item, Warren Jackson
Amy Herzog’s funny, moving take on the human condition Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles, currently at the Gloucester Stage Company, deals with some deep matters, including life, death, aging, coming home and moving on. But far from weighing it down, these universal themes emerge as organically as the fruit of a community garden in Herzog’s Obie […]
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Tags: 4000 Miles, Amy Herzog, bicycle, drama, Eric Engel, Gloucester Stage Company, Karl Marx, Manhattan, Mark Sardella, Nancy E. Carroll, play, Samantha Ma, Sarah Oakes Muirhead, theater, theatre, Tom Rash
Play bends comedy, drama and mystery in one entertaining package Widowed Mary Antonelli, a retired school teacher, and Joe LaCedra, a 64 year-old leg-breaker for the mob, are spending a stormy New Year’s Eve together in Mary’s South Boston home. But this is no social encounter. It’s strictly business. We learn that much in the […]
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Tags: Auld Lang Syne, Douglas Lockwood, Gloucester Stage Company, J Michael Griggs, Jack Neary, Lynn MA, Mark Sardella, Molly Trainer, Paula Plum, play, playwright, Richard Snee, South Boston, Southie, Tareena Wimbish, theater, theatre, Tom Rash
Through September 22 at Gloucester Stage Company Despite the fact that that Driving Miss Daisy won a Pulitzer, an Oscar and a Tony Award, I had somehow never gotten around to seeing the stage or movie version of Alfred Uhry’s masterpiece about the friendship between a sharp-tonged southern widow and her black driver set against […]
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Tags: Alferd Uhry, Benny Sato Ambush, Civil Rights Movement, Driving Miss Daisy, Gloucester, Gloucester Stage Company, Jenna McFarland-Lord, Johnny Lee Davenport, Lindsay Crouse, Robert Pemberton, theater, theatre
The Young and the Reckless
Kenneth Lonergan’s “This Is Our Youth,” currently on stage the Gloucester Stage Company, paints a compelling, passionate and funny – if not pretty – picture of disaffected upper-class youth in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 1982. I found myself wondering if the play’s title was intended as an observer’s commentary about the play’s twenty something […]
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Tags: Alex Pollock, Amanda Collins, Gail Astrid Buckley, Gloucester, Gloucester Stage Company, Jenna McFarland-Lord, Jimi Stanton, John Malinowski, Kenneth Lonergan, Lewis D. Wheeler, Mark Sardella, Marsha Smith, theater, theatre, This Is Our Youth
A Fine Kettle of Fish
Israel Horovitz’s ‘North Shore Fish’ at Gloucester Stage Company When Israel Horovitz wrote “North Shore Fish” in 1986, the Gloucester fish packing industry was already in trouble. Plants were closing, and with the local fishing industry sputtering, those that remained in business were reduced to repackaging frozen filets from overseas rather than fresh local fish. […]
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Tags: Aimee Doherty, Brianne Beatrice, drama, Erin Brehm, Esme Allen, Gail Astrid Buckley, Gloucester MA, Gloucester Stage Company, Israel Horovitz, Jenna McFarland-Lord, Lowell Byers, Marianna Armitstead, Massachusetts, Maureen Lane, Nancy E. Carroll, North Shore Fish, Robert Walsh., Russ Swift, theater, theatre, Therese Plaehn, Thomas Phillip O’Neill
Mark Sardella 