By John Staton
John.Staton@StarNewsOnline.com
As an audience member, I’m not the biggest fan of audience participation. I don’t want to get drug up on stage, be pressured to sing along or be told to throw my hands in the air like I just don’t care.
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Which makes my positive feelings for Opera House Theatre Co.’s excellent, entertainment-packed production [...]

By Catherine Bayley
StarNews Correspondent
Published: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 10:07 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 10:07 a.m.
A group of nuns have come to town kickin’ it old skool, and that’s not a reference to corporal punishment. With references to Mary Pickford, Carmen Miranda and Mary Hartman, the 1985 musical “Nunsense” can’t reach much [...]

By John Staton,
John.Staton@StarNewsOnline.com
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Published: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 10:22 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 10:22 a.m.
There aren’t many stories more tragic than the one told in “Grey Gardens.”
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For all of the documentary film-turned-musical’s humor, wackiness and jaw-dropping, I-can’t-believe-people-lived-like-this moments, it is at its core a tale of broken dreams.
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“I was the girl who [...]

By John Staton,
John.Staton@StarNewsOnline.com
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‘Grey Gardens’
For anyone who’s seen “Grey Gardens,” the devastating 1975 documentary by Albert and David Maysles about a mother and daughter, fallen socialites both, living in squalor in a decrepit Hamptons mansion, the prospect of a musical based on this unforgettable film had to be a little jarring.
But in 2006 the unlikely occurred, [...]

By John Staton,
John.Staton@StarNewsOnline.com

Published: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 9:36 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 9:36 a.m.
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You know an audience is responding to a play when you scan a packed house and see smiles all around.
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That’s the effect “Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller,” has on folks. Opera House Theatre Company’s [...]

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By John Staton,
John.Staton@StarNewsOnline.com
Published: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 9:56 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 9:56 a.m.
When Opera House Theatre Company produced “Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller” in 2003, the musical revue packed with classic pop hits sold out its final three shows at 600-seat Thalian Hall.
Want to go?What: “Smokey [...]