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Tag: Ken Ludwig

Reviews Theater

THE GODS OF COMEDY (McCarter Theatre): 60-second review

Kathryn Osenlund March 19, 2019 No Comments

A charming comedy buried under an avalanche of frenetic activity

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Baskerville Walnut Street review
Reviews Theater

BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY (Walnut Street): Ken Ludwig’s version turns the story on its head

Kathryn Osenlund January 15, 2018 2 Comments

An ancestral manor, a family curse, a fiend: Ken Ludwig’s version turns this Sherlock Holmes story on its head.

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MOON OVER BUFFALO (People’s Light): A few doors short of a farce

Cameron Kelsall July 26, 2017 2 Comments

Why did People’s Light exhume this largely forgotten play from its well-deserved obscurity?

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Reviews Theater

HARVEY (Walnut): Burns slow, then hops right along

Kaitlyn Foti January 31, 2016 No Comments

The story is a little dated, but that is part of its charm, like watching a Norman Rockwell painting come to life.

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Reviews Theater

BASKERVILLE (PTC): The adventure of the omnipresent detective

Ninni Saajola December 13, 2015 No Comments

Ken Ludwig’s idea of turning a Sherlock Holmes story into a comedy isn’t groundbreaking, which means the execution of the idea needs to be really good to stand out

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Reviews Theater

BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY (PTC): A wacky spoof on a classic novel

Debra Miller December 3, 2015 No Comments

An entertaining spoof of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Victorian classic injects humor and surprises into the well-known mystery.

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Reviews Theater

FOX ON THE FAIRWAY (Act II): Camaraderie of a club

Lauren Hartranft November 6, 2015 No Comments

No golf interest? No problem. This show has tongue-in-cheek humor, love, competition, and the danger of the unexpected.

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Music Reviews Theater

A COMEDY OF TENORS (McCarter): More adventures in opera

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper October 20, 2015 No Comments

Ken Ludwig brings four of the outstanding characters from Lend Me A Tenor from Cleveland to Paris for more rollicking escapades.

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BASKERVILLE (McCarter): An entertaining trip to Dartmoor

Neal Zoren for NealsPaper March 19, 2015 No Comments

Ken Ludwig taps literature’s most iconic detective with BASKERVILLE, a funny, inventive, entertaining take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”

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