Waitress. Music by Sara Bareilles. Directed by Diane Paulus. National tour production at the Forrest Theater in Philadelphia, February 2018.
Waitress is a feminist fable with an indelible heroine, played on this national tour by Desi Oakley. She is adorable, and helpful to her friends as she endures a demeaning marriage to a thuggish man. What’…
The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson; directed by Kathryn MacMillan at Theatre Horizon in Norristown, PA, February 2018.
This play, part of Theatre Horizon’s “Women Who Dare”“ season, presents women during the French Revolution who speak to us with modern language and sassy attitudes. It works best as a comedy with its flippant, irreverent gags, and not so …