Tag Archives: Carol Sussman

Thinking Cap Unleashes The Wild Ambition of Dance Nation

Dare your adult to take your inner child to see Dance Nation at Thinking Cap Theatre in which adults play teenagers prepping for a competition. Were a prize given out today for Best Ensemble, the cast of Dance Nation would take home a trophy.

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Beverley Blanchette, Bree-Anna Obst, Carol Sussman, Clare Barron, Dance Nation, Elna Maria Garcia, Jeanine Gangloff Levy, Jim Gibbons, Jordan Patriarca, Kevin Black, Nicole Stodard | Leave a comment

MSP’s Marjorie Prime: A Second Chance To Say What Was Left Unsaid To Your Parents

Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime at Main Street Players posits 21st Century technology giving people a chance to say what was left unsaid, to finish unfinished business. The insightful script for the Pulitzer finalist will resonate deafeningly with Baby Boomers caring for parents edging into senility or who have already lost their parents.

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Carol Sussman, Chris D’Angelo, Fara Sax, Harry Marsh, John Olivera, Jordan Harrison, Main Street Players, Marjorie Prime | Leave a comment

Pigs Do Fly Gains A Little Altitude In Curly Tales

Getting old, or older, is not for sissies, the saying goes… but it’s easier if you can laugh at it and if you know you’re not going crazy all alone. The second half of that is the unspoken maxim beneath Pigs Do Fly Productions as it enters its third season with its newest entry, Curly Tales.

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Brenda Aulbach, Carol Sussman, Curly Tales, Elena Maria Garcia, Elissa D. Solomon, Gail S Garrisan, Harry Marsh, Kerry Sensenbach, Lynn Simmons Chvotkin, Stanley Ross | Leave a comment

Pigs Do Fly Gains A Bit More Altitude With New “Flying High!”

The writing seems a little sharper, the direction more incisive and the acting a bit more credible at Pigs Do Fly Productions’ new Flying High. Some of the playlets still are a bit lamer than others and some still limp along a bit, but there’s a noticeable uptick in the quality of this evening meant to provide a quiet, gentle smile.

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Carol Sussman, Carol White, David Susman, Donna Warfield, Elena Maria Garcia, Elissa Solomon, Ellen Wacher, Flying High, Gail S Garrisan, Jim Gibbons, Miriam Kulick, Pamela Schueler, Pigs Do Fly Productions, Steven A. Chambers, Todd Caster | 1 Comment

Pigs Do Fly Launches Seven Short Plays For The Over 50 Set

Ellen Wacher’s Pigs Do Fly Productions opens its second season by, for and about people over 50 years old arguing that F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong about no second acts in American life with its newest anthology of playlets under the umbrella title No Fear of Flying.

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Beverly Blanchette, Carol Sussman, Donna Warfield, Elena Maria Garcia, Elissa Solomon, Ellen Wacher, Harry Marsh, Marjorie O'Neill-Butler, Michael H. Small, Michael Leeds, Michael McKeever, No Fear Of Flying, Pigs Do Fly Productions, Todd Caster | Leave a comment

Troupe Pitches To Over 50, But It’s Not Just For Older Crowd

While it does give actors and audiences of the 50-plus demographic a forum to create, Pigs Do Fly’s Fifty Plus – A Celebration of Life As We Know It isn’t just for those fifty or older; the humorous short plays, although sometimes predictable, presented life as we all know it.

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Beverly Blanchette, Carol Sussman, Ellen Wacher, Janet Weakley, Kitt Marsh, Marj O'Neill Butler, Todd Caster, Troy Stanley | Leave a comment