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 »
Published January 29, 2018 – Buffalo’s Irish Classical Theatre continues its season of comedies with a splendid production of W. Somerset Maugham’s THE CONSTANT WIFE. In lesser hands the story of a wife who appears to turn a blind eye to her husband’s infidelities could come across as a dreadfully dated and unbelievable drawing room comedy of… Read more »
By Colin Dabkowski, The Buffalo News | Published 7:00 a.m. January 24, 2018 Constance Middleton is one cool customer. She takes a liberal view of infidelity. She blithely compares the notion of sex with her husband to eating cold mutton. And while she certainly thinks men are sweet, she also believes that it would be “absurd to… Read more »
by Cherie Messore, buffalotheatreguide.com, Published January 22, 2018 Back in 1926 – when women’s suffrage was a recent memory in the UK as well as the US – there was Constance Middleton. Strong, savvy, sly, and she’s “The Constant Wife” in W. Somerset Maugham’s comedy of manners presented now through February 11 at the Irish… Read more »
