Articles Tagged With: Susan Flynn

Shining Like The Top of The Chrysler Building: Annie at Compass Rose Theater

Reviews September 25, 2025 Chris Pence

author: Chris Pence

Admit it, you had “Tomorrow” running through your head from the second you read the title. And who wouldn’t? It’s such an ebullient anthem to optimism (try saying that three times fast)! Producer Barbara Webber and Compass Rose Theater reignite inspiration, determination, and optimism with Annie, the classic tale of the little redheaded girl that has been stealing Americans’ hearts since 1924.

Based on characters from Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie comic strip,

Same Time, Next Year at Compass Rose Theatre

Reviews October 20, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

One beautiful weekend a year. No cares, no ties, no responsibilities. Sounds grand, doesn’t it? Just swell? It’s exactly the picture Bernard Slade was trying to paint when he penned Same Time, Next Year. Probably. Appearing now at Compass Rose Theatre (for the next several weekends, at any rate) this somewhat dated stage comedy still has its humors and in its own right is a quaint little evening’s worth of oddly colored ‘old school’ humor.

Intimate Apparel at Compass Rose Theater

Reviews September 14, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

“Don’t you let no man have no part of your heart without getting a piece of his.” Profound words and life lessons to live by from Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, which is now appearing on stage at Compass Rose Theater at the top of the 2024/2025 season. Directed by Lottie E. Porch, this vibrant period drama, set in Lower Manhattan in 1905, is a heartfelt tale of Esther, a colored woman who stitches intimate apparel to make her living and all of the subsequent trials and tribulations that accompany that lifestyle at that time.