Local Critic Reviews

Dividing The Estate: A Review

Dividing The Estate: A Review

Dividing the Estate took the stage for Chamber Night and Student/Press Night. Local critic Benjamin Sharp has penned a review just in time for opening night: Leave it to a family inheritance to bring out the worst in people. But leave it to Horton Foote to turn it...

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella: A Review

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella: A Review

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella took the stage for Chamber Night and Student/Press Night. Critics Kevin & Becky Blalock have penned a review just in time for opening night: As the feminine half of this Review-Writing Duo, I have to say Rodgers and...

The Addams Family: A Review

The Addams Family: A Review

The Addams Family took the stage for Chamber Night and Student/Press Night. Critics Kevin & Becky Blalock have penned a review just in time for opening night: They’re creepy and they’re… well, you know the rest. The Addams Family may have originated in 1938 as a...

A Coffin in Egypt: A Review

A Coffin in Egypt: A Review

A Coffin in Egypt took the stage for a Student & Press Night. Critics Kevin & Becky Blalock have penned a review just in time for opening night: At the end of our lives, will we look back with happiness and contentment, or will we be filled with hurt and...

White Christmas: A Review

White Christmas: A Review

White Christmas took the stage for a Student & Press Night. Critics Kevin & Becky Blalock have penned a review just in time for opening night: It’s that time of year again! A time when we put up our tree, when we sing songs and exchange gifts, and when the...

Always… Patsy Cline: A Review

Always… Patsy Cline: A Review

Imagine meeting your celebrity idol, someone you admired deeply and felt a kinship with even though you’d never met. Then imagine getting to actually interact with that person and get to know them, and have a real friendship begin to form! This is the basic premise of...

Hello, Dolly!: A Review

Hello, Dolly!: A Review

“Dolly don’t ever go away again,” is a famous lyric from the title track of “Hello Dolly!” But right now, you only have a few weeks to see “Dolly” onstage at the Plaza Theatre before she does indeed go away, so you’d better hurry! Most people, if not familiar with the...

Crimes of the Heart: A Review

Crimes of the Heart: A Review

We've all experienced a strange mix of tragedy, comedy and drama in equal parts throughout our lives. We stumble and fall, but we get back up. We learn and we cry. And sometimes, all we can do is laugh. These are the universal themes that “Crimes of the Heart” at the...

The Clue: On Stage review is in!

The Clue: On Stage review is in!

“Who done it?” is an expression frequently uttered when watching a murder mystery, but when watching “Clue: On Stage” at the Plaza Theatre you'll also be laughing out loud just as frequently. We're all familiar with “Clue” right? The famous Hasbro board game where...

A Christmas Story – Review

A Christmas Story – Review

“You'll shoot your eye out!” The casual recitation of this phrase alone brings to mind all the joy and laughs of the beloved film “A Christmas Story.” And now this classic tale takes the stage at the Plaza Theatre! If you're not already familiar with the story of the...