Articles Tagged With: Matthew Sean Mitchell

Our Town at Manor Mill Playhouse

Reviews October 17, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

Do any live people ever realize life every minute while they live it? Saints and poets…and theatergoers… maybe… It’s time to take a step back, take a breath, and come celebrate the simplistic joys in life. The sunrising… the birds in the trees…the seasons changing… a new theatre company opening its doors for the very first time… Okay, that last one isn’t quite so simple, but Angelo Otterbein (owner and operator and art enthusiast of Manor Mill) and Vanessa Eskridge (director and producer of Manor Mill Playhouse’s inaugural production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town) make it look simple,

Grand Horizons at Cockpit in Court

Reviews July 22, 2024 Leonard Taube

author: Leonard Taube

“I want a divorce”. So begins the play Grand Horizons which Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre is putting on in their upstairs In-The-Round space which opened tonight to rousing applause and enthusiastic reception. A relatively recent play written by American playwright, screenwriter, and actress Bess Wohl, Grand Horizons began previews on Broadway on December 23,2019 and opened on January 23, 2020. This play marked Wohl’s Broadway debut and was nominated for the 2020 Tony Award for Best Play.

Disgraced at Vagabond Players

Reviews April 4, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Order or justice? Henry Kissinger made a quote about it. That quote gets referenced by one of the characters in Ayad Akhtar’s volatile and evocative drama, Disgraced, which is now on stage at the Vagabond Players in Fells Point. Directed by Matthew Sean Mitchell, this 90-minute intense drama takes place inside one apartment on New York’s Upper East Side during the summer and fall of 2011, one decade after the terrorist attack on September 11th.