Ryan Landry

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Musical chairs

Dessa Rose, Whizzin’, The Drowsy Chaperone
Perhaps only the team that triumphed with Ragtime would attempt a musical based on Sherley Anne Williams’s 1986 novel Dessa Rose .
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 29, 2008

Mommie dearest

Ryan Landry revives Medea
My dad used to tell a joke connecting the author of Medea to a pair of pants. The Italian-inflected punch line: “Euripides?” “You menda dese.”
By CAROLYN CLAY | February 26, 2008

Unguarded glamour

The Queens' Queen
In the formative days of her photography career, Kelly Davidson snapped portraits of dolls, and she took it seriously.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | January 09, 2008

Perfect Tenn

Jeremy Lawrence’s one-man show Everybody Expects Me to Write Another Streetcar
When Tennessee Williams summered in Provincetown in the early 1940s, Eugene O’Neill was the playwright most associated with the tip of the Cape.
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 04, 2007

Integration in Ogunquit

With a flashback to Laverne + Shirley
Big, buoyant teenager Tracy Turnblad (Alison Faircloth) is dedicated to some big, buoyant propositions.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | September 05, 2007

Not about heroes

Lyric Stage’s Arms and the Man ; Gold Dust Orphans’ The Milkman Always Comes Twice
Guns and cocoa butter are the subjects of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 Arms and the Man , the first of the great Irish contrarian’s “Plays Pleasant.”
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 10, 2007

Psycho Santa

Ryan Landry’s Silent Night of the Lambs
Ryan Landry takes a holiday hatchet to The Silence of the Lambs in his latest outing for the Gold Dust Orphans, serving up Kris Kringle with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
By CAROLYN CLAY | December 05, 2006

Zone clone

Ryan Landry channels Rod Serling
The very thought of Ryan Landry doing The Twilight Zone is enough to bring a smile to the face.
By ED SIEGEL | October 18, 2006

Princesses

Cinderella in Beverly and Ogunquit, Martha Mitchell Calling in Lenox
Cinderella has been making her way around New England stages, and whether she had fairy or gold dust in her eyes depended on where you caught up with her.
By CAROLYN CLAY | August 29, 2006

Doing the nasty

Cleopatra the Musical, Damn Yankees, Hiding Behind Comets, Real Hush-Hush
Ryan Landry swears that if there’s a more lavish musical extravaganza in town than his Cleopatra the Musical (at Machine through May 27), he’ll eat his negligee.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 02, 2006

Broken dreams

Intimate Apparel , Death of a Saleslady
Proxy rhetorician of love Cyrano de Bergerac is drawn into a less romantic age in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel , which beat out August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean for the American Theatre Critics Association’s Steinberg New Play Award, and is now in its area premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre.
By CAROLYN CLAY | February 19, 2006