Gloucester Stage presents ‘Sins of the Mother’ Sep 2, 2009
Eugene Ionesco once described Horovitz as both a sentimentalist and a realist, and that is especially true in his depiction of Gloucester. With its rough-edged protagonists and its catalog of social pathologies (including drug use and child abuse), Sins is not a play to gladden the heart of a Chamber of Commerce official. (Boston Globe)
Orfeo Group, Apollinaire Theatre ready to perform outdoors Jul 3, 2009
The program features works by Jean Cocteau, Jean Anouilh, and Eugene Ionesco. And it s all free. (Boston Globe)
‘The Bald Soprano’ hits right tempo, tone Jun 26, 2009
In the same way, Eugene Ionesco s play itself, now at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater s original Harbor Stage, at first seems so familiar that you may find yourself wondering why you needed to see it again ... THE BALD SOPRANO Play by Eugene Ionesco. (Boston Globe)
Hudson Keynotes May 23, 2009
Billed as An Evening of Theater of the Absurd, the plays are spoofs, comedies and satire, and include The Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov; Medea by Christopher Durang and Wendy Wasserstein, Catastrophe by Samuel Beckett; The Sandbox by Edward Albee and the Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco. Thursday, May 28 performance is at 7 p.m.; Friday and Satrday, May 29 and 30 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 31 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students. (Hudson Sun, MA)
King Geoffrey Rush declares abnormal the new normal Mar 28, 2009
Written by Eugene Ionesco ... At least it is when Geoffrey Rush is in command, here making an astonishing Broadway debut as Berenger, Eugene Ionesco's impotent potentate who is a little like Bruce Willis's character in The Sixth Sense: He's almost dead; he just doesn't want to accept it yet. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Superman MIA in New Flick Mar 27, 2009
" It worked: after lots of gossip claiming that the "Exit the King" would exit Broadway as soon as it opened, all the wags turned out to be wrong. Sarandon and fellow Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush who s performed the Eugene Ionesco play a couple of times before click like crazy, and the result was an ecstatic opening night audience that included Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Bob and Lynne Balaban, Griffin Dunne, Sarandon s other half, Tim Robbins, Julie Taymor, Miranda Richardson, David Hyde... (Fox News)
Geoffrey Rush's 'nothingness' project Mar 27, 2009
He shared the memory during a conversation about his Broadway debut which takes place on Thursday night in "Exit the King," the Eugene Ionesco play that is a touchstone work in the Theater of the Absurd. An Academy Award winner for his portrayal of the disturbed pianist David Helfgott in "Shine," Mr. Rush is perhaps most widely known as the flamboyant Capt. Hector Barbossa in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies. (International Herald Tribune)
