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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 | 1,831 views
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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 | 6,586 views
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 | 6,625 views
We Are Proud featured image Victory Gardens 2012 credit Liz Lauren

A stunner at Victory Gardens. 4 stars!