By: MJ Pendleton – May 4th, 2010
FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE
Scottish Rite Temple May 7th-9th, 8pm Sunday matinees, 3pm Tickets: $18-$20 • (910) 343-3664
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F“Five Guys Named Moe” is simply spectaculaR! Director Ray Kennedy conducted the orchestra, played the piano, and choreographed the production assisted by Tracy Byrd—and he did it all with astonishing brilliance. This show [...]

By: MJ Pendleton – February 23rd, 2010
NUNSENSE
Scottish Rite Temple • 1415 S. 17th St.
February 26th-28th
Tickets: $20 • (910) 343-3664
The magic in Opera House Theatre Company’s latest show, “Nunsense,” is in the casting, so director Sue Ellen Yates deserves a lot of credit for the standing ovation the musical received on Friday night. Each actor perfectly [...]

 
 A Shade of Grey:
‘Grey Gardens’ satisfies in a melancholy performance
By: Lisa Huynh – September 8th, 2009

 
By: Lisa Huynh – September 8th, 2009
The moving performance of the cast, matched with the heavy, doleful music in Opera House Theatre Company’s “Grey Gardens” tugs audience’s heartstrings until they, too, turn into a shade of grey. It’s a story [...]

Aristocratic Crazy:
Opera House presents ‘Grey Gardens’
By: MJ Pendleton – September 2nd, 2009
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The musical “Grey Gardens” is based on a 1975 documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. It depicts the lives of a mother and daughter, Big Edie and Little Edie, who live in an East-Hampton mansion, which, in Act II, is scandalously unsanitary, with [...]

Opera House hits it big with ‘Smokey Joe’s Café’

By: MJ Pendleton – August 11th, 2009
SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ
City Stage/Level 5, 23 N. Front Street
August 14-16, 21-23; 8pm,
Sunday matineés at 3pm
Tickets: 910-343-3664
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Ray Kennedy has choreographed and directed “Smokey Joe’s Café” so many times he could probably do it in his sleep—but each time he has actors who [...]

By: MJ Pendleton – July 13th, 2009
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Director Ron Chisholm really knows how to entertain. For “Schoolhouse Rock Live!” he has put together such a fabulous cast and crew that the fun simply flows nonstop. According to production stage manager Michelle Ponton, who is also the light-board operator, there is a certain amount of improvisation each [...]