Tag Archives: Wesley Slade

Hand To God Explores Man’s Baser Nature With Pitch Black Comedy — And Puppets

Okay, yes, Hand to God has cute obscenity-spouting puppets having sex on stage, but the similarities to Avenue Q stops dead right there. This scorchingly funny and aggressively irreverent play at GableStage is a pitch black comedy about using the fiction of religion to rationalize and excuse the baser natural instincts of Mankind.

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Casey Sacco, GableStage, Hand To God, Joseph Adler, Kristian Bikic, Margery Lowe, Robert Askins, Stephen G. Anthony, Wesley Slade | Leave a comment

GableStage’s It’s Only A Play Skewers And Honors The Craziness Of Theater Folks

GableStage has produced a version Terrrence McNally’s satire about theater, It’s Only A Play, that is funnier and has far more heart than the Broadway edition.

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Antonio Amadeo, Christopher Chisholm, GableStage, It's Only A Play, Joe Ferrarelli, Joseph Adler, Lourelene Snedeker, Michael McKeever, Terrence McNally, Wesley Slade | Leave a comment

Forum’s Funny Bone Missing In The Wick’s Vaudevillian Farce

The Wick Theatre’s production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum benefits from Stephen Sondheims’s score and lyrics, but the cast and director need to inject more vaudevillian humor to overcome the material’s inherent sexism,

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Alexa Baray, Amelia Millar, Angela Morando-Taylor, Christopher Brand, David Setteducati, Elizabeth Morgan, Eriak Amato, Jim Ballard, Kelly Zieglar, Ken Jennings, Lauren Kay, Michael Scott, Michael Ursua, Ronen Bay, Samantha Leibowitz, Stephen Sondheim, The Wick Theatre, Troy Stanley, Wesley Slade | Leave a comment