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Totalitarian coup at Gloucester Stage

06Sep16

By MARK SARDELLA GLOUCESTER — Imagine, if you can, an oligarchic takeover of a state led by a “Palinesque” Manchurian candidate with only a hapless, dying, Occupy-style activist standing in the way of her establishing a totalitarian regime. Forget trying to imagine it. It’s been done for you! Playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s over-the-top, absurdist, dark […]

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Tags: Alex Portenko, Amanda Collins, Breean Julian, campaign, elections, Gloucester Stage, Howard Zinn, Jeff Zinn, Lewis D. Wheeler, Mark Sardella, Occupy, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, play, Politics, radical, review, Sarah Palin, The Totalitarians, theater, theatre, vote, Wakefield Daily Item

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

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

Horovitz brings ‘Gloucester Blue’ home

18Sep15

by Mark Sardella (The Wakefield Daily Item) “Gloucester Blue is a comic thriller and has often been compared to a Coen Brothers movie,” says Wakefield native Israel Horovitz about his new play, which opens this week at Gloucester Stage. “I can see why,” he says. “It’s a comedy, but quite dark. The final moments of […]

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Tags: Coen brothers, comedy, drama, Esme Allen, Francisco Solorzano, Gloucester Blue, Gloucester MA, Gloucester Stage, Israel Horovitz, Mark Sardella Wakefield Daily Item, Massachusetts, play, playwright, Robert Walsh., theater, theatre, Wakefield High School, Wakefield MA, working class

‘The Flick’ is the reel thing

27Aug15

From the opening scene, connections – real, missed and misplaced are on the minds of the three principal characters in The Flick, Massachusetts playwright Annie Baker’s 2014 Pulitzer winning drama at Gloucester Stage now through Sept. 12. As they do their post-movie “walk-through” to sweep up spilled popcorn and other trash in a run-down central […]

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Tags: Annie Baker, Bridget Kathleen O'Leary, Courtney Nelson, David Remedios, film, Gloucester Stage, James Weschler, Lara Jardullo, Marc Pierre, Mark Sardella, Marsha Smith, Massachusetts, Melissa Jesser, movie, movies, Nael Nacer, play, Russ Swift, The Flick, theater, theatre, Wakefield Daily Item

‘Out of Sterno’ warms Gloucester Stage

29Jun15

Gloucester Stage‘s current production, Out of Sterno, is unlike any comedy you’ve seen, and one that you’re almost guaranteed to like. While teetering on the edge of theater of the absurd, Deborah Zoe Laufer’s play hangs on to just enough realism to make the audience believe in and care about its central character, Dotty, who […]

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Tags: Amanda Collins, David Wilson, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Elisabetta Polito, Gloucester, Gloucester Stage, Jennifer Ellis, Jon Savage, Mark Sardella, Meg Tracy Leddy, Noah Tuleja, Out of Sterno, Paula Plum, play, Richard Snee, Russ Swift, theater, theatre

‘Sweet and Sad’ at Gloucester Stage

01Jun15

Through June 20, 2015 The Apple Family moves to Gloucester Stage for Sweet and Sad, part 2 of Richard Nelson’s quartet of plays that explore major events or anniversaries through the eyes of an ordinary family. Part 1, That Hopey Changey Thing, was produced at Stoneham Theatre last winter. If That Hopey Changey Thing, was […]

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Tags: 9/11, Apple Family Plays, Bill Mootos, Crystal Tiala, David Wilson, Gail Astrid Buckley, Gloucester Stage Company, Joel Colodner, Karen MacDonald, Laura Lautreille, Mark Sardella, Marsha Smith, memorial, memory, Paul Melendy, Rhinebeck NY, Richard Nelson, Russ Swift, Sarah Newhouse, stage, Stoneham Theatre, Sweet and Sad, theater, theatre, Weylin Symes

Israel Horovitz debuts as a feature film director

26Sep14

Directs motion picture adaptation of his play “My Old Lady” Add yet another to the list of titles used to describe Wakefield, Massachusetts native Israel Horovitz: movie director. His film, My Old Lady, a major motion picture starring Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas, opened last week and is now playing at theaters […]

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Tags: France, Gloucester Stage Company, Hollywood Hits, Israel Horovitz, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Mark Sardella, motion picture, movie, My Old Lady, Oliver Horovitz, Paris, play, Rachael Horovitz, theater, theatre, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield High School, Wakefield MA

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Posts Tagged ‘theatre’

Totalitarian coup at Gloucester Stage

All in the family feud

Albatross soars at Gloucester Stage

Bonnie and Clyde ride again in Concord

‘Normalcy’ comes up a measure short

Horovitz brings ‘Gloucester Blue’ home

‘The Flick’ is the reel thing

‘Out of Sterno’ warms Gloucester Stage

‘Sweet and Sad’ at Gloucester Stage

Israel Horovitz debuts as a feature film director

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