Stages, Theater

Review: Birthday Candles at Northlight Theatre Will Light Up Your Evening

Birthday Candles is a new play now on stage at Northlight Theatre. It’s a poignant comedy/drama that will cure your emotional ills for an evening with its story of love, life […]

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Review, Stages, Theater

Review: Court Theatre’s The Mousetrap Proves a Timelessly Enjoyable Murder Mystery

The Mousetrap

Perhaps best known as the longest-running play ever (notching north of 28,000 performances and counting), Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has been continuously on stage in London’s West End since 1952. […]

Lisa Trifone /
Stages, Theater

Review: Spanning Tragedy, Comedy and Several Years, The Winter’s Tale Proves to be Enduring Shakespeare

Winter's Tale

You read Romeo & Juliet in high school. You saw Much Ado About Nothing one summer at the park. Even if you’ve never seen (or read) them, cultural references to Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello […]

Lisa Trifone /
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Northlight’s Beauty Queen of Leenane A Quietly Devastating Dark Comedy

Northlight Theatre’s production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh’s quietly devastating dark comedy, takes place in the provincial town of Leenane. Directed by B.J. Jones, the Tony Award-winning […]

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