GLOUCESTER – In a universe where there is even such a term as “alternative facts,” the mere title “The Lifespan of a Fact” conjures up battles between opposing forces firing at each other,… Continue reading
BOSTON – The stage is bare except for the traditional “ghost light” as actors drift in and out while Gloucester Stage Company Artistic Director Robert Walsh greets the audience with his “curtain speech.”… Continue reading
GLOUCESTER – When the right role is matched with the right actor, it can be magical. The late Simon Geller was a singular sensation at Gloucester radio station WVCA-FM – 104.9 on your… Continue reading
GLOUCESTER – In his 24 plays spread over a half-century, the late Irish playwright Brian Friel often cast a broad net in exploring the dynamics of familial relationships among his countrymen, which earned… Continue reading
GLOUCESTER – A pensive Madame Thérèse Defarge is stewing in her wine shop in the Saint-Antoine section of Paris, patiently knitting, and someday she’ll run out of patience, put down her knitting and… Continue reading
GLOUCESTER – They are a quartet of women with something in common: A man. They come together in a Parisian apartment to – mourn? – the passing of the professor they were all… Continue reading
GLOUCESTER – It is the Dust Bowl in the midst of the Depression in the 1930’s, and both hope – and rain – are in short supply. In the Gloucester Stage Company’s powerful… Continue reading
GLOUCESTER – Is that the alcohol talking, or do you really love me? You only have to spend a short amount of time at the nearest dating bar to know that when drugs… Continue reading
GLOUCESTER – Perhaps it takes a place where the air is rare and the cold is unforgiving for a man to begin to think clearly. For a sixty-something man named David Kipling, that… Continue reading
GLOUCESTER – You never know what will cause the ties that bind families together to fray. Family gatherings are often emotional powder kegs ready to explode. It can happen even at a memorial… Continue reading