Jane Anderson Touches Parent’s Baffled Suffering by Patricia L. Morin Feisty Isabelle Arc (powerful Sherman Fracher) begins her torture when her impulsive teen-age daughter Joan (riveting Rosie Hallett) claims to have spoken with Saint Catherine. At a testy age, Joan announces that she will fight the invading English army, saying, “I am not afraid…
Millennial Notes Del Shores Fashions Fabulous Fantasies of Mom & Singing Sisters by Evelyn Arevalo Domineering mother Ditty Blaylock (vibrant Christine Macomber) has been offered the opportunity of a lifetime. She will be honored on television for 50 years of Gospel song writing. There’s just one catch, her three daughters–The Blaylock Sisters–must reunite in…
Millennial Notes Carol S. Lashof Gives Life to Historical Tituba by Fritz Mad’Laine Those Women Productions, one of my favorites, is back at it again with their world premiere of Carol S. Lashof’s “Witch Hunt.” With reproductive justice rights under attack, Mother Earth in ruins, and the occult making a dramatic comeback among disillusioned…
Millennial Notes Carol Lashof Gives Voices to Salem’s Silenced Victims by Jordan Freed Descending the narrow staircase into La Val’s Subterranean Theater feels right for the eerie mood of “Witch Hunt.” The basement space perfectly recreates the claustrophobia of panicked, paranoid colonial Salem, Massachusetts. A dark, misty forest and townscape spread across the walls, compelling…