Waterworks Players
Craig Challender, Author at Waterworks Players - Page 2 of 2
2019
It’s Your Move: A Review of Chess
“Each game of chess / Means there’s one less / Variation left to be played; // Each day got through / Means one or two / Less mistakes remain to be made.” These opening lines from “Prologue”/”The Story of Chess” point us to the inevitable—but not predictable—conclusion of Chess, the 1988 American version of Tim Rice, Benny […]
2018
New Director/Classic Play
When asked, “Why Gaslight?”, director Don Blaheta had a ready answer. “Well, there’s the current political environment. And I don’t mean just in the last year or two. Years ago Jon Stewart was showing clips of politicians blatantly lying paired with clips that proved the lies. It’s getting worse, though: and when someone repeatedly and […]
2018
Once More, with Feeling
Please note that the playwright, Bo Wilson, will now be attending the Saturday, February 18th performance. It was initially advertised that he would attend Friday, February 16th performance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you would like to switch your tickets, please email info@waterworksplayers.org or call 434-392-3452. The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Victory Church, […]
2017
Shrek the Musical: A Review
Most of us are familiar with Shrek the movie, Mike Meyers’s 2001 smash (complete with Smashmouth’s cover of “I’m a Believer” as the credits roll). Some of us are familiar with Shrek the book, William Steig’s 1990 children’s tale that features a much more repulsive, cruder ogre who saves, then marries his equally repulsive bride […]
2017
Scott Chapman: He Got His Wish
A foreboding retired judge. A gullible, slightly timid doctor. A dignified parlor man. An old, ruthlessly religious woman. These are only a few of the ten strangers dining in an island mansion, all of them invited there by a mysterious U.N. Owen. A record begins to play, and the unseen host begins to accuse each […]
2016
Mason and Womack: A Classy Reunion
Daphne Mason and Martha Womack, two of The Waterworks Players’ longest-running troupers, are happy when they’re in the same play together—Fiddler on the Roof, Big River and Mame come to mind—and happier still when they’re playing opposite each other. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the debut Waterworks production this season, allows them to […]
2016
Auditions for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Waterworks is holding auditions for its October production of Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 2013. Set in the family farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia contemplate their lives, full of angst […]
2015
Small Doses Review
What’s a great antidote for overcast days, long nights and bone-rattling cold? A good post-Valentine’s laugh, of course, and that’s exactly what The Waterworks Players’ current production provides. Small Doses, a sampling of 10-minute plays by Brett Hursey, is just what the doctor ordered. Crisply directed by Hursey, these seven vignettes paint our all-too-human foolishness […]
2014
Driving Miss Daisy: A Review
Driving Miss Daisy is a curious theatrical event. Because of the hugely popular movie version that reprised Morgan Freeman as chauffeur Hoke Coleburn and featured Jessica Tandy as the redoubtable Miss Daisy—the role for which, at 81, she finally won a well-deserved Oscar—many Daisy lovers have never experienced Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play as a […]
This project is supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
