Posted by Angela Dalecki Wendy Wasserstein’s comedic play ISN’T IT ROMANTIC follows two friends in their late twenties as they try to navigate the harsh waters of romance and careers in 1980s Manhattan. One is Janie Blumberg (Madi Houff), a Jewish freelance writer struggling to establish independence from her well-meaning but occasionally overbearing parents (Rachel...
Neil Simon is best known for light comedies like The Odd Couple and Brighton Beach Memiors; THE GINGERBREAD LADY, the current offering from The Chapel Street Players in Newark, Delaware, is, by contrast, a heavy drama about addiction, abuse and fading youth. To be sure, there is wit and humor in the piece, but this...
Before we get to the gritty details, let’s get right to the point: if you have a free night this weekend, you should be headed to Newark, Delaware, to see THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE at Chapel Street Players. I think most of the audience expected the show to be a comedy (it isn’t, though...
Posted by Marshall Garrett Going to a live performance of Shakespeare is always a delightful event. Having a work by the greatest author in the history of our language delivered in the manner in which it was intended is, sadly, a rarer and rarer treat, especially outside of Shakespeare festivals. However, a theatre must truly...
When Brick, Maggie the Cat, Big Daddy and Big Mama come to town, it’s always a cause for celebration. Theatregoers know they’re in for an evening of epic family squabbling and steamy sexuality delivered in Tennessee Williams’ singular combination of Southern-inflected poetry and vulgarity. It’s therefore fortunate that the Chapel Street Players are giving us...
The Chapel Street Players in Newark, Delaware took on the challenge of presenting the area premiere of David Lindsay–Abaire’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning play RABBIT HOLE. The show, which received a film adaptation in 2010, follows a married couple and their family as they grapple with the tragic loss of their four-year-old son. Don’t let...
COMIC POTENTIAL, the title of the current offering from Chapel Street Players in Newark, DE, pretty well sums it up. The full-length comedy written by British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn is a curiously interesting play with a seemingly absurd plot. Set in a future time when androids are common, it is essentially a love story...
Before I even begin to discuss AMADEUS, by Peter Shaffer, this is what you ought to do for yourself ASAP… call 302.368.2248 at Chapel Street Players in Newark, DE and make reservations to see this play about which I can only gush endlessly. Only two more weekends left to see it! It’s a small theatre...
Posted by Ethel Guy Moss Hart and George S. Kauffman wrote YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU in 1936, but no matter – take an evening off from the hectic pace of today’s digital driven world and go to Chapel Street Players in Newark, Delaware. Sit back, relax, and let some timeless universal truths wash...
