Joe Siegel

Delightful “Cabaret” Hits All the Right Notes

The new production of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Cabaret is first-rate, with showstopping choreography and a heartfelt story beneath all the glitz and glamour. Andrea Goss stars as the sultry and seductive chanteuse Sally Bowles, who is the main attraction of the Kit Kat Klub in Berlin. The Emcee (Randy Harrison) describes this decadent environment as a […]

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Strong Performances Make Daisy a Smooth Ride

Mixed Magic Theatre’s production of Driving Miss Daisy is powered by some outstanding performances and smooth direction by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley. The setting is Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1940s. An elderly Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan (Melanie Stone) crashes her car, which prompts her son Boolie to hire a chauffeur to drive his mother around.  Boolie […]

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The Heidi Chronicles: It’s a Woman’s World

Trinity Repertory Company has delivered a first-rate production of playwright Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, and Angela Brazil delivers a winning performance as Heidi Holland, an art historian who is perpetually searching for fulfillment. Directed with a lot of polish by Vivienne Benesch, the story follows Heidi over the course of three decades, […]

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There Goes the “Neighborhood”

2nd Story Theater and director Ed Shea have crafted many provocative, funny, and clever plays over the years. Unfortunately, their latest, Neighborhood Watch, is a major disappointment. Martin (Joe Henderson) and his uptight sister Hilda (Becky Minard) convene a meeting of concerned neighbors after a teenage boy invades their swanky property in the Bluebird Hill development. […]

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