We begin in Paris, a street at night, mysterious. Alone on the street is novelist and essayist Émile Zola (Abe Goldfarb), musing about Pascal’s “bet” on the existence of the afterlife. But there is no time to dwell, as Zola himself is somehow...
Craic is, of course, an Irish term, connotating a fun, enjoyable time; and that’s precisely what the Cape Rep delivers in comedian-turned-playwright Mark Doherty’s Trad, a hilariously funny and occasionally thoughtful look at generational priorities,...
We are in the small town of Carthage, Texas, when an assortment of easily recognizable people—the town gossip, the girl who longs to get away, the police chief—is augmented by Bernie Tiede (Todd Buonopane), the town undertaker/mortician. And, in defiance...
The setting is a local community center, familiar to those of us who’ve spent time in small New England towns. A chair or two against the walls, lots of room for various activities in the center; you can almost smell the cleaning fluid. There are five...
Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for drama, one of only 10 musicals to do so, and its current production—staged at the Cape Rep Theater in Brewster—should be award-winning as well: this is an evening of light and...
When we left the theater after seeing Death of a Salesman, I turned to my companion and asked, “what did you think?” He thought for a moment and then said, “It’s not for the faint of heart, but that’s the way epic tales of woe often are.” I...
I’m not going to bury the lede: this is a wonderful production of a brilliant play. Go see it, go see it, go see it! Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is an American farce written by masterful playwright Chistopher Durang that has, yes, some inane...
I first heard the names Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti when I was thirteen years old, through the famous song Here’s to You, written by Ennio Morricone and Joan Baez for a 1971 film about the men. I heard it sung in French by Georges Moustaki (real...
Something unusual is happening to me here: I cannot find words adequate to communicate the feeling, the intensity, the sheer beauty of Midsummer Dreamers, now playing through July 13 at the Cape Rep Theatre in Brewster. Kirsten Peacock and Nick...
Willa Cather is said to have written to a friend, in apparent surprise, “I have actually sold The Bohemian Girl. Isn’t that a jolt?” Yet many scholars see the story as the piece that honed her skills, the voice that would later develop My Antonia. What...
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