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‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ at Writers: Innocence and experience backed into last corner of hope

Mar 8, 2015 – 9:48 pm
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Review: What makes Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s 1955 play “The Diary of Anne Frank” so compelling – and it is nothing less in the current production at Writers Theatre – fills a large frame of human drama. It is a complex profile of hope shadowed by terror and despair, and finally crushed under the boot of hatred. But still, first, there is innocent hope, a luminous vision of life abounding in wonder, possibility and good. ★★★★★

‘The Whale’ at Victory Gardens: A daughter’s outsized rage, a father’s thin hope of grace

Apr 21, 2013 – 10:28 am
Dale Calandra as morbidly obese Charlie in his last days in "The Whale" by Samuel D. Hunter directed by Joanie Schultz at Victory Gardens April 2013 credit Michael Brosilow

Review: ★★★★

‘We Are Proud to Present’ a play that crawls before it walks – and then knocks you flat

Apr 10, 2012 – 4:14 pm
We Are Proud featured image Victory Gardens 2012 credit Liz Lauren

A stunner at Victory Gardens. 4 stars!