Songbook Summit, Charolais, Van Gogh’s Ear, and Prince of Broadway By Barbara & Scott Siegel In a new season that is, so far, more noteworthy for what is closing rather than for what is opening, we look to the mostly rare and unusual shows that have...
The Lucky One – Mint Theater
By Sandi Durell Taking place in the early 1920’s, The Lucky One (written by A. A. Milne) is a comedy that moves to more serious issues of emotional deprivation and brotherly resentment in the upper class English Farringdon family. Gerald (a cheery Robert David...
A Day by the Sea at Mint Theater’s...
By Sandi Durell Is it reality to think that once one has reached middle age that missed opportunities and roads not taken can be recaptured? British playwright N.C. Hunter (1908-1971) raises not only this question, but brings human frailties, disappointments,...
The New Morality
By Elizabeth Ahlfors The New Morality, a frothy comedy of manners, comments on a society advancing toward World War I and a drastically different world. The heroine, Betty Jones,...
Donogoo-or The Miracles of Science...
NY Theater Review by Alix Cohen Jules Romains’ immensely appealing satire about the craziest of stock market swindles and its outcome was published as a novel in 1920 and presented by its author as a play 9 years later. Le Figaro’s theatrical review...
Philip Goes Forth – If He Can Make...
By: Sandi Durell What a treat to see the Mint Theater’s revival of “Philip Goes Forth.” It hasn’t been produced since 1931 when George Kelly’s humorous play ran at Broadway’s Biltmore Theater. But the hopes and dreams that the Big City has to...
A Picture of Autumn at the Mint...
by: Sandi Durell Aging can be sleepy, laden with images of the past, or a jolt of jaunty expectations. It is 1951 as we find ourselves in a dreary old estate in Wiltshire, England, where three aging members of the Denham family have spent their lives . . . Margaret and Charles...
