3-1/2 Stars (out of 4) by Melinda Miller, The Buffalo News There is nothing epic about “Sive,” John B. Keane’s tragic family drama set in a small, rude farmhouse. This is a story of gritty survival, where poverty pushes people to make desperate choices with unconscionable results … … there also are frequent moments of… Read more »
There is a golden girl at the heart of the Irish Classical Theatre production of Clifford Odets 1937 classic, “Golden Boy,” and her name is Cassie Cameron. Cameron gives a five-star performance in this four-star production. It was inevitable that Irish Classical Theatre eventually arrive at the work of Odets. The playwright modeled his plays… Read more »
Wit wins out in ICTC’s “Lady Windermere’s Fan” – Review by Colin Dabkowski, Published 7:00 a.m. June 6, 2018 The Irish Classical Theatre Company has a knack for choosing summertime comedies with just the right amount of froth. Its latest, whipped up like some perfect theatrical cappuccino by director Josephine Hogan and her talented cast, is… Read more »
Posted June 4, 2018 Ah, the things we do for love. We keep secrets. Maybe tell a fib or two. And perhaps we try to protect the object of our affection from hurting over something that can’t be undone. Love, honor, and the subtleties of deception combine to form the delectable story of Oscar Wilde’s… Read more »
June 2, 2018 If you are in the market for a delightful evening of Wildean wit and wisdom, you will do no better than seeing Irish Classical Theatre Company’s current production of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. This subversive drawing room comedy, first performed in 1892, is timeless in its skewering of rigid moral codes… Read more »
THE BASICS: THE AWFUL TRUTH, a 1922 comedy by Arthur Richman presented by the Irish Classical Theatre Company, directed by Fortunato Pezzimenti, starring Eric Rawski, Zak Ward, Diane Curley, Ellen Horst, Maura Nolan, Adriano Gatto, Marisa Caruso, and Chris Kelly runs through Mother’s Day, Sunday May 13, Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at… Read more »
April 24, 2018 Whatever your artistic quest may be, from unearthing gem stones or archeological ruins to discovering a lost manuscript of music, there is always an element of nostalgia and new found glee when the item arises. Stage director Fortunato Pezzimenti discovered Arthur Richman’s unpublished 1922 script THE AWFUL TRUTH in the New York Public… Read more »
ICTC’s talent for screwball comedies works again in “The Awful Truth” by Ted Hadley, The Buffalo News April 24,2018 “The Awful Truth,” a comedy written for the stage nearly a century ago by Arthur Richman … is the kind of play that Irish Classical Theatre Company does best. Costumed to the nines, classy set pieces,… Read more »
Published March 5, 2018 – Unhappiness in rural Dublin– Not an altogether unlikely topic for a play. But when Buffalo’s Irish Classical Theatre included Conor McPherson’s THE NIGHT ALIVE as part of their season of comedies, I wondered how it fit the bill. Happily the play about unhappiness somehow morphs from dark comedy to a… Read more »
Review by Willy Rogue Donaldson Published Monday, November 13, 2017 Here we are in modern Ireland, where we see Noel Lynch is drinking his way to oblivion in yet another pub. He hasn’t been thrown out of this one like he has at many others- Whoops! He was just thrown out again! Into a sizeable… Read more »
