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“The Great Divorce” at the Fellowship for Performing Arts at the Pearl Theatre Company (Closed Sunday January 3, 2016)

December 3, 2015 | light shining, Off-Broadway > | C. S. Lewis, FPA, Great Divorce, Pearl Theatre

Adapting a novel for the stage comes with considerable risk. The adaptor needs to be as true as possible to the original dense text – especially in the case of C. S. Lewis. The adaptor also has to delineate the characters with honesty and believability and present their conflicts and the plot they drive with the authenticity inherent in the…

“Macbeth” at the Acting Company at the Pearl Theatre (Closed April 9, 2015)

April 3, 2015 | Off-Broadway > | Pearl Theatre, The Acting Company

The Acting Company in association with The Guthrie Theater has delivered a trimmed and taut reinvention of Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” (“The Scottish Play”) to audiences at the Pearl Theatre in Manhattan as part of its current tour paired with Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” This ninety minute “Macbeth” delivers the Bard’s iconic tragedy compressed…