Spotlight on Reviews

The Buddy Holly Concert starring Zachary Stephenson took the stage at Theatre at the Center on June 21st. This was definitely one of the best concerts I’ve seen in a long time. Everyone was rockin’!

**** Recommended  Canterbury Summer Theatre’s third production of the season, Calvin Berger, is about four high school students at the beginning of their senior year – all hormones and angst. The very first song of the show, Security Meltdown, expresses a lot of that angst. Playwright John Berst has cleverly merged high school crushes/dating into the Cyrano de Bergerac story. I really enjoyed it. 4 Spotlights

**** Highly Recommended  "Suffs," playing at the CIBC Theatre, is an terrific musical and an important history lesson for young women who take the right to vote for granted. We only have the right to vote today because women – suffragists – devoted their lives to getting the vote, facing male indifference, condescension, mockery, even cruelty – and the struggle continues! I was thrilled to see so many mothers and daughters in the audience on opening night. "Suffs" gets 4 BIG Spotllights from me.

**** Highly Recommended  Audiences for Goodman Theatre’s summer hit, "Iceboy!" an old-fashioned screwball comedy, never stopped laughing. The world premiere is actually titled "Iceboy! or The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O’Neill Came to Write The Iceman Cometh" which is an insane title, but does explain why Eugene O’Neill appears in the show. This one is a must-see!  4 BIG Spotlights