Leira Satlof and her team chose Clue: The Musical for Ferndale Repertory’s 2020 season because they thought people needed some fun. “We chose it because things were already kind of bad,” says Satlof, the theater’s artistic producing director. “We chose a season of things we thought were fun. We thought our patrons would appreciate it.” […]
Leira Satlof
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Welcome to the Fun House
Or rather Fun Home – the Bechdel kids’ name for the inherited funeral home they grew up in and the latest production at Ferndale Repertory Theatre. Alison Bechdel, oldest of the three children, published a groundbreaking graphic autobiography of the same name in 2006, charting her coming-of-age and coming-out as she watches her parents’ marriage […]
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Brave Girls
Return to Oz After battling high winds on State Route 299, I was braced for Dell’Arte’s 2019 holiday show, Return to Oz, and the on-stage hurricane that carries Dorothy away from the world where Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, and everyone at school think she’s a little crazy and back to a version of L. Frank […]
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Nunsense: Sisters Doin’ it for Themselves
The Little Sisters of Hoboken are a welcoming lot, meeting and greeting us audience members as we obediently file into the auditorium and locate our seats for the opening of Nunsense (book and music by Dan Goggin) at Ferndale Repertory Theatre. After all, some of us may have less-than-pleasant memories of the times we didn’t […]