Theater

Duck Hunter Shoots Angel is a beautiful play, lightly blending laughter with heart.

The touring production will feature many of the same behind-the-scenes people, including director Gary Griffin.

This week brings the usual Christmas events, plus those related to Kwanzaa and Hanukkah, so there's something for all December holidays.

MBS Productions has shunned tradition and delivered a new holiday favorite all wrapped up and tied up with a fishnet stocking.

The Boxer is strong enough to yield an engaging antidote to typical theatre fare and a glut of holiday-themed shows.

Familiar songs sweep the evening from one favorite to another, with audience ooohs and aaahs, transporting us all back to the '60s era.

The one thing that I couldn’t get over is the casting. They were all great actors.

DSM’s new 101 Dalmatians musical barks up the wrong tree; Another Night Before Christmas soothes like a cup of cocoa.

The book by BT McNicholl goes all over the map, trying desperately to make logical sense of talking dogs and humans.

A Carol for Tiny Tim places Tiny Tim in the Scrooge role.

Nye Cooper’s a great choice for this extended soliloquy and has much experience playing Crumpet.

'Tis the time of year for holiday events, so if you don't like Christmas, you're pretty much out of luck.

Crushing Grain uses refrain and satire and pain and paranoia and lots of thematic rhyming. The mosaic is somewhat amorphous, but still absorbing.

In a way you could say there's nothing new about Talley's Folly, but Lanford Wilson makes the familiar surprising and bracing.

It's hard not to enjoy a show that pokes fun at all the Christmas cliches that we deal with each year, but it also takes the time to remind the audience what Christmas is all about.

It's a kids play, but parents were chuckling right along with them.

Puss in Boots is an appropriate show for children but adult enough to bring the parents.

The Boxer is a unique theatrical event inspired by the classic silent films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

If you're looking for solid family fare for the holidays, I know you will not be disappointed by sharing your season with the Sanders family.

He said: Nye Cooper is more jerky than funny. She said: I miss David Sedaris.