New Reviews: Poetry & Drama

Up-and-coming British actors Kimberly Nixon and Ifan Meredith take the lead roles in what first appears to be a nineteenth-century melodrama about the meeting of a bright, ambitious young woman with limited means and an upper-crust young gentleman who saves the day. However, beneath the surface of the story, Victorian novelist Mary Anne Evans, better known as George Eliot, had... Read More

In this fearless contemporary monologue, actor Carey Mulligan delivers a working-class London accent to tell the story of a young woman on the rise who finds an interesting job and then maybe an interesting man whom she meets offhandedly in the queue at an airport. As children, arguments, and life ensue, Mulligan finds the dark and light emotional nooks and crannies that make... Read More

I was waiting for the scene when Elliott whips Paula's panties off the shower rod where they are drying. Would it be as funny and poignant as it was in the 1977 movie? I'm here to say that it rocked. Neil Simon's screenplay about a flighty dancer/actress and her level-headed daughter who are forced to share a tiny New York City apartment with an off-off-off Broadway actor still... Read More

Narrator Kathleen Godwin breathes life into this spirited, richly detailed play about actress Carole Lombard, that begins on the eve of her death in a plane crash. Lombard was known as a screwball comedienne-movie star who had the vocabulary of a sailor. As Lombard, Godwin speaks directly to listeners, adding intimacy. She also talks to herself; for example, when she rambles,... Read More

With natural ease and absolute charm, Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actor John Lithgow lets the listener in on a not-so-well-kept secret: He loves the theater, and he loves a good story. In this superb one-man show he combines the two and dramatically delivers two short stories by two of his all-time favorite authors: "The Haircut," by underappreciated American... Read More