Reviews by Carol Moore

**** Recommended **** Northlight Theatre’s production of “How a Boy Falls” is a wonderfully dark and twisted little mystery by Steven Dietz.  It’s so tightly knit that just when you think you’ve figured it out, everything changes.  With everyone having secrets, just who’s guilty?  If you like mysteries or suspense novels for that matter, you’ll love this play.  3 ½ Spotlights   

**** Recommended **** The Goodman Theatre’s new production, “Roe”, should be on everyone’s must-see list.  Going in, I wasn’t looking forward to seeing this play because I thought it would be all strident and heavy, and yes, politically correct, but it wasn’t.  I never cared about the people involved in “Roe v Wade, but this play about two very different women, brought those very real people behind the Supreme Court ruling to life.  It was human and poignant and even-handed, even though parts were both strident and political (causing some in the audience to lose their minds).  My friend Helen liked it so much she recommended it to some of her friends!  4 Spotlights

**** Recommended **** I took my niece Becka Salach Smith and her two little ones, Winston, age 4, and Maeve, age 2, to see "Disney On Ice presents Road Trip Adventures".  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Disney is very, very good at putting an appealing show together, and this was no exception.  The kids were thrilled, Becka and I were charmed.  4 Family Spotlights

*** Recommended *** “Top Girls” is an unusual play written by British playwright Caryl Churchill.  Since I’d seen the play before (a Dunes Summer Theatre production in 2010), I knew where it was going.  A word of warning, what with the weird dream sequence in Act I, will be more or less incomprehensible – at least until Act III, when you’ll figure it out.  “Top Gun” was written as a reaction to Margaret Thatcher’s election in England, so it has a definite feminist slant.  Because it’s ‘non-linear’, Churchill skips through time, which explains why the rest of us end up clueless.  3 Spotlights