Articles Tagged With: Jackie Colestock

Crab the Dog (L- Julie) and Launce (R- Matthew Alan Ward) in The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Review: The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Annapolis Shakespeare Company

Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona is, by turns, hilarious and horrifying, and it’s hard to know which of these is more daunting to a director approaching the play. Annapolis Shakespeare Company‘s Sally Boyett conquers both with flying colors. Her 1920’s-inspired Two Gents is sharp, incisive, fearless, and polished.

Proteus and Valentine (Patrick Truler and Joel Ottenheimer) are young friends on the verge of manhood. Proteus loves Julia (Amy Pastoor),

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Review: The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre

The cold grey tendrils of a dim English dawn are unfurling across the Annapolis harbor. The thrilling era of 1890’s London has slipped across the docks and settled into the Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre to launch the first show of their 50th season of theatre under the stars. Instead of a night of traditional ASGT musical revelry, The Music Hall Royale has brought to the stage their latest work— the greatest injustice of Charles Dickens’ life— his unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

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Review: The Servant of Two Masters at Annapolis Shakespeare Company

Let’s take a moment to have a beer you and I.  There.  Now we are fully prepared to enjoy one of the finest forms of comedy ever put to stage: Commedia D’elle Arte.  Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of Goldoni’s classic The Servant of Two Masters by Timothy Mooney is ready for us.  Ensconced, a jewel in the firmament of Reynolds Tavern Courtyard, Director Sally Boyett choreographs a “Commedia D’ell Right Now” that doesn’t just tickle the funny bone it hits it hard and rubs it for you afterwards.  

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