Theater Review: Cullud Wattah @ Ujima Theatre
a Portrait of the Flint Water Crisis by Ann Marie Cusella Cullud Wattah is playing at the Ujima Theatre from May 12 – 28, 2023. Invisible Toxins In 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan switched its water supply and a massive health crisis ensued. By 2016 this...
Theater Review: The Stick Wife @ Revelation Theatre @ the Flexible Theatre at Buffalo State
Consider the Wives of KKK Members by Ann Marie Cusella The Stick Wife is playing at Revelation Theatre from April 21-May 14, 2023. The Battle for Civil Rights On September 15, 1963 a Ku Klux Klan bomb exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham,...
Theater Review: Sunset Boulevard @ O’Connell and Company
Billy Wilder Collides with Andrew Lloyd Webber (Seriously) by Ann Marie Cusella Sunset Boulevard is playing at O’Connell and Company from May 5 – 21, 2023. She’s Ready for Her Close-Up A faded silent movie star, enthusiastic young, and not so young, people...
Theater Review: Barefoot in the Park @ Jewish Repertory Theatre
Neil Simon’s Famous Comedy is on Display by Ann Marie Cusella Anything that can go wrong will go wrong in this classic Celebrating Middle America Neil Simon is one of the most prolific play/screen writers of the 20th Century. His comedies celebrate the...
Theater Review: Kragtar! The American Monster Musical @ Alleyway Theatre
Have You Ever Been to an “Adult” Musical? by Ann Marie Cusella Kragtar! The American Monster Musical is playing at Alleyway Theatre from April 21 – May 13, 2023. The Classic Battle Between Good and Evil Kragtar! is about good vs evil. It’s about love...
Theater Review: Six, The Musical @ Shea’s
Being a wife of Henry VIII Was Hard! by Ann Marie Cusella Six, The Musical is playing at Shea’s Performing Art Center from April 25-May 7, 2023. Here Come Some Divas Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived. Being a wife of Henry VIII was fraught with...
Theater Review: Network @ D’Youville Kavinoky Theatre
That Famous Indictment of TV News Hits the Stage by Ann Marie Cusella Howard Beale in all his glory. Photo – Gene Witkowski He’s Madder than Hell The 1976 film, Network, with an Oscar-winning screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, was a satirical, bordering on...
Theater Review: Sweat @ Road Less Traveled Theater
A Rustbelt Story We Know All Too Well by Ann Marie Cusella the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner is playing at RLT the Lives of Factory Workers Sweat, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Lynn Nottage set in Reading, Pennsylvania, is a powerful indictment of corporate and...