Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Newtown Arts Company's “The Pink Panther Strikes Again" opens Thursday at Newtown Theatre.
A story about ineptitude, professional jealousy to the point of insanity and world destruction may not seem like a comedy, but fans of the Pink Panther series know that in “The Pink Panther Strikes Again,” it certainly is. Newtown Arts Company's stage adaptation of Blake Edwards’ 1976 film, “The Pink Panther Strikes Again," opens Thursday at Newtown Theatre. "The Pink Panther Stirkes Again" is the fifth in the series of beloved 1970s films. Director Edwards brought the bungling Parisian detective alive in the form of Peter Sellers. With both of those talented men gone, it’s hard to re-imagine Pink Panther – although Steve Martin did try in the early 2000s. Newtown Arts Company has found the groove. Cue Henry Mancini’s theme song. “Once …
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Art imitates life – just a bit – in this large-cast production.
A play within a play in a common conceit (think “Hamlet”) but Newtown Arts Company’s “Our Miss Brooks” takes it a bit further. The play, written by Christopher Sergel, is running this Thursday through Aug. 31 at Newtown Theatre. Lori Steel Naglak is not only directing the comedy based on the widely popular CBS Radio series (1948-57) that later appeared on the small screen and the silver screen, but Naglak is also a bit of a Miss Brooks herself. She is about to enter her eighth year as drama teacher at Council Rock South. This is her first time directing with Newtown Arts Company. “I heard they needed a director,” said Naglak, “and I figured I had some time, so I volunteered to help out.” Half of the eight adults in the cast are teachers or…
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Langhorne Players brings three iconic characters to the stage in a poignant comedy about a family in need of salvation.
Stephen Hawking, Jesus and Elvis walk into a room… well, roll, float and saunter into a room actually. It sounds like the set-up to a joke, but it is the dramedy "End Days," produced by Langhorne Players and running through July 30 at Spring Garden Mill in Tyler State Park. The Stein family deals with post-traumatic stress disorder each in their own way. Arthur, who survived the attack on the World Trade Center, stops eating, showering, caring. Sylvia abandons her family responsibilities for evangelical doomsday-saying. And 16-year-old Rachel adopts a Goth persona to keep others at bay and further masks herself from the world in a marijuana haze. Instead of living, the characters in Deborah Zoe Laufer’s play are just marking time, …
Friday, July 15, 2011
One family survives 9/11 only to wait for the Rapture that never comes.
A September 11 survivor hardly seems the stuff of humor. Neither does a religious zealot waiting for the Rapture. Same with Stephen Hawking. And most 16-year-olds. But a 16-year-old in an Elvis suit? An imaginary Jesus? Now you might be getting somewhere. Langhorne Players presents "End Days" through July 30 at Spring Garden Mill in Tyler Park. The play, written by Deborah Zoe Laufer, is a comedy. The Steins have moved to the suburbs after 9/11. The father, Authur, survived the attack on the World Trade Centers, but hasn’t changed out of his pajamas since. The mom, Silvia, is newly and passionately Evangelical. She has a personal relationship with Jesus – yes, he talks to her. Jesus has probably given Silvia a packing list for Wednesday – …
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Newtown Arts Company addresses the big white rabbit in the room.
If ever there was a time where the collective consciousness dictated behavior and mores, it was during World War II, when women were expected to put a dress on to cook dinner after working the assembly line to make bombs all day. Crazy just to think about it? Sure, but it was expected. Talking to an imaginary friend? Crazy. Just plain crazy. Starting June 23, the Newtown Arts Company will present Harvey, a work that earned playwright Mary Chase a Pulitzer Prize after it was produced on Broadway in 1944. The play will be performed through June 29 at the Newtown Theatre. Harvey is about an extremely pleasant man, Elwood P. Dowd, who has strayed beyond societal norms, so much so that his sister wants to have him committed into a mental …
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Karl Smith
8:07 am on Thursday, February 16, 2012
I remember doing this play as a senior in high school ... a long, long time ago. Would be fun to see it again. more ›