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Very Little Theatre

The World According to Cats 

Jen Ferro’s ‘Cat Lady’ at VLT has claws but could use development

ArtsTheater 2 years ago

Stage Left at The Very Little Theatre is proving to be an incubator for new plays by local playwrights. Cat Lady, a comedy by Eugene … Continue reading →

Married to Shakespeare

Women take a break from the world around them to obsess over Shakespeare in a timeless new play by Dorothy Velasco

ArtsBlogPerforming ArtsTheater 2 years ago

Who knew Shakespeare had so many wives? Dorothy Velasco’s new play Ladies Shakespeare Club, which opened Friday, Feb. 17, at Very Little Theatre, dramatizes love … Continue reading →

Pegasus Playhouse Takes Flight

Theater company opens new location, continues to expand limits of the youth musical

ArtsBlogEW-ExtraTheater 2 years ago

“I can’t help but want to create something,” says Scott Frazier-Maskiell, founder and artistic director of Pegasus Playhouse. “I’m addicted to it.” Pegasus Playhouse, a … Continue reading →

Life Lessons in the Death House

VLT opens an adaptation of a prize-winning novel on facing mortality

ArtsBlogTheater 2 years ago

In Ernest J. Gaines’ 1993 novel A Lesson Before Dying, a young African American man innocent of any crime is sentenced to the electric chair … Continue reading →

Staging the Holidays

A little something for everyone in this year’s offering of Christmas productions by local theaters

Theater 6 years ago

The sheer intimacy and immediacy of theater lends itself splendidly to the holidays. It’s as though, facing the stage, we are basking as one in … Continue reading →

Over a Barrel

A marriage falls to shit in VLT’s production of David Lindsay-Abaire dark comedy Wonder of the World

Theater 7 years ago

Not that anybody’s clamoring for my approval, but let me begin by congratulating Very Little Theatre for daring to step afoul of the staid, risk-averse … Continue reading →

The Wages of Slavery

A Confederate soldier returns home in VLT’s 'The Whipping Man'

Theater 7 years ago

There is much to admire in Matthew Lopez’ The Whipping Man, playing now at Very Little Theatre. This atmospheric period drama is, without a doubt, … Continue reading →

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