Satchmo at the Waldorf,” by Terry Teachout, is a well-meaning play in want of a meaning. That is, it seems to have serious and interesting...
Author: John Rogers
In the dark with strangers
Strong performances offset the contradictions in The Flick, now on stage at The Players' Ring.
Some enchanted island
There is no better American song than Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Some Enchanted Evening.” It is a song that feels like exactly what it says. You...
The revolution, staged
There is nothing more enervating, or even fatal, to theater than habit, which leeches plays of their vitality and muffles their existential inquiry. This applies...
Tiger, tiger: new play at The Ring
The actors shine in Veterans in Performing Arts' production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at The Players' Ring in Portsmouth.
War wounds
In the annals of matrimony, few pages are more dog-eared and annotated than those on Ernest Hemingway, whose four marriages — and numerous flirtations and...
