NEWS & REVIEWS

STEEL MAGNOLIAS – Playhouse on Park

• It sparkles. It dances. It delights. It enlightens. (From the desk of Jim R)
• Under Susan Haefner’s assured direction, the cast shines, and there are plentiful moments of both humor and heartache. (Talkin’ Broadway)
• There really isn’t a false note throughout the entire evening. (CT Theater News & Reviews)

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS – Playhouse on Park

• A delight from start to finish (CT Theater News & Reviews – Geary Danihy )
• Exciting, powerful, and fresh (BroadwayWorld.com )
• Colorful and crazed (CT NOW )
• Entirely marvelous and effective (Talkin’ Broadway )

SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK, LIVE! – Weston Playhouse

• Contagious Fun! (Manchester Journal)
• The ABC’s of Fun Abound (Chester Telegraph)
• “Schoolhouse Rock, Live!” Opens Weston’s Season (Rutland Herald)

25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE – Playhouse on Park

Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Outstanding director of a musical (nominee), Outstanding ensemble (winner)

• Simply terrific!…expertly staged, wonderfully performed (the band, too) and full of laughter, heart and life… Director-choreographer Susan Haefner has staged the show with energy, sensitivity and imagination... The ensemble of actors playing smart, self-aware, and socially inexperienced pre-teens is first rate. (The Hartford Courant)
• Thanks to Susan Haefner’s very smart direction of a talented cast and Robert Tomasulo’s tight pit band, I haven’t laughed out loud so often at a theatre in a while. (Connecticut Wit).  If you’ve never experienced it, what a summer treat. If you’re already a fan, go again and take some friends with you. (Bonnie’s Blog)

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