“When your trust is all but shattered; when your faith is all but killed. You can give up bitter and battered or you can slowly start to build.”
I like to start most reviews, if I can help it, with a hook-line, usually some clever twist on one of the show’s iconic lyrics or themes, but this one is just a direct line-pull from “Beautiful City” because it’s what co-founders Albert J. Boeren and Lisa Boeren have created.
Prepare ye! The way of the— new theatre company!? The Peace Players are the new harbingers of hope, after quite some years in the making, and are preparing their debut production of Godspell, arriving in the actual sanctuary of Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church. In a TheatreBloom exclusive interview, we’re sitting down with founders Albert and Lisa Boeren to talk all about the company, their inaugural production, and their hopes for the future when it comes to this blossoming new theatre company.
You know you’ve made it in Hollywood when your face is five stories high and six zeros wide. But what about the theatre? Can you ever truly say you’ve made it there if you haven’t played the Bard’s greatest role? Doesn’t everyone dream of playing Hamlet? Not Andrew Rally, television’s hot-shot novice surgeon who moonlights as a nature-loving chipmunk-kissing commercialist on the side. That is, of course until he finds himself in New York City in John Barrymore’s apartment,