by RICK DANLEY // May 4, 2017 Every play should have at least one character who describes another character as smelling “like a bucket of hot links” — but only one play does. The Allen Community College theater department delivers another knockout in their production of “Dearly Beloved,” an exuberant wedding comedy set in a gossipy … Continue reading ‘Dearly Beloved’
by RICK DANLEY // April 21, 2018 Decades of shoe-leather reporting taught the New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell that, as sure as the key to a good movie lies in the casting, the secret to any great story depends on the subject at its center. But great characters don’t fall from the sky. You have to … Continue reading Another Round
by RICK DANLEY // December 3, 2015 Allen Community College’s excellently cast staging of Martin McDonagh’s pitch-black comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan” is able to wring from the fast-paced script the same quotient of wit and deep feeling that made the play a hit when it first arrived on the London stage in 1996. The … Continue reading ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’
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