Arts

What happens when the American Dream crosses paths with racial inequality and economic struggles? Throw in a good amount of family drama, and you’ve got the plot line for A Raisin in the Sun, currently on stage at Bristol Riverside Theatre. The setting is Chicago in the 1950s, and the Younger family has gotten a […]

As holiday decorating and sales start kicking up this time of year, so do holiday-themed performances at local theatres. Several of my clients are theatre companies, so there’s always a holiday vibe in my production queue this time of year. First up is the theatre version of the ever-popular Christmas movie, A Christmas Story. Bristol […]

BRT Finally Shows Cabaret After Pandemic Shut Down Production in 2020 The stage was set. It was Spring, 2020 and Bristol Riverside Theatre had two more shows planned to finish out the season. We had just finished shooting promotional videos for Cabaret when everything started to shut down. And, well, you know the rest of […]

Lately, I‘ve been doing some critical thinking about Western culture. Don’t get me wrong, there are some aspects of western culture I love: art, music, science, philosophy. But we have to admit that there are some really toxic aspects as well: racism, genderism, sexism, classism, ableism, religionism, individualism, ethnocentrism, capitalism, and the general disregard for […]

Nothing says the holiday season is upon us like the annual interpretations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. And, after a pandemic hiatus, theatres across the country are again lighting their stages to showcase the Christmas tale of redemption. A perennial favorite for families in the Delaware Valley is McCarter Theatre Center’s annual production of […]

Laughter, they say, is good for the soul. Theatre has provided escapism and comic relief for ages, and if ever there was a time when the world needs the arts, that time is now. And, I think all of us could use a good laugh these days. There’s plenty of laughs to have at Bristol […]