About The Santaland Diaries
Article Published November 26, 2009
REVIEW
The Blade
By Nanciann Cherry
Glacity presents offbeat holiday tale
“For its first locally produced show in its new Valentine Theatre home, Glacity Theatre Collective presents a wickedly funny story about a beloved Christmas tradition: a visit with Santa...(read full review)
Published November 25, 2009
ARTICLE
Toledo Free Press
Staff
Glacity ringing in the holidays with Sedaris classic
NPR listeners got their first taste of humorist and radio commentator David Sedaris back in 1992, when he debuted with his darkly comic holiday tale “The Santaland Diaries.” The essay, which was adapted into...(read full article)
About Har Har Harrisbrandt
Article published October 21, 2009
ARTICLE
UT Update
By Staff
Glacity Theatre Collective to bring New York show to Toledo
“HAR HAR: An Evening With Harburg Harrisbrandt” will be presented by the Glacity Theatre Collective at its new home, the Valentine Theatre.
The one-act play will...(read full review)
Published October 26, 2009
ARTICLE
The Independent Collegian
By Megan Aherne
Glacity Theatre presents a worthy farce
Toledo non-profit theatre organization puts on “Har Har,” a farcical play about troubled memories
“Har Har: An Evening with Harburg Harrisbrandt” is winner of the 2001 Excellence Award for Solo Show at the New York International Fringe Festival. The one act play will be presented by the Glacity Theatre Collective at the Valentine Theatre on Oct. 29, 30 and 31.
“Harburg Harrisbrandt is a singer-songwriter who...(read full review)
About GTC's Move to the Valentine Theatre
Article published October 15, 2009
ARTICLE
Toledo Blade
By Nanciann Cherry
Glacity troupe takes up residence in the Valentine
The Glacity Theatre Collective has found a home.
Composed of local theater professionals, Glacity has been in existence since 2007, presenting its shows in a variety of venues, from a former frame shop on Adams Street to the Millennium Theater at Maumee Valley Country Day School.
Now it has become a resident company of the Valentine Theatre...(read full review)
Published October 13, 2009
ARTICLE
Toledo City Paper
By Staff
Glacity's Valentine
The Glacity Theatre Collective is a stage troupe with heart. The theater production will be celebrating its recent relocation...(read full review)Published October 8, 2009
ARTICLE
Toledo Free Press
By Staff
UPDATE: Glacity Theatre show postponed
The members of Glacity Theatre Collective (GTC) are about to take their show up the road. The group, which struggled last season to find a permanent home in Downtown, is moving to the Valentine Theatre and taking the acclaimed...(read full article)
About "All's Well That Ends Well"
Article published June 2009
THEATRE REVIEW
Sojourner's Truth
By Staff
Here’s some good news indeed – you still have an opportunity to catch a wonderful local stage production of one of Shakespeare’s comedies courtesy of Glacity Theatre Collective. The play opened two weekends ago and will play again this upcoming weekend on Friday and Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. Don’t miss it.
Helen and Bertram, the two young lovers in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well are certainly not the typical love-struck duo that inhabit most of the romantic comedies of Shakespeare’s age. For one thing...(read full review)
Published June 23, 2009
THEATRE REVIEW
Toledo City Paper
Reviews
Glacity Theatre Collective delivers a shining performance
Soaking up the sun and some lighthearted Shakespeare rounded out the perfect start of the summer as the Glacity Theater Collective players shined during their penultimate Sunday performance of All’s Well That Ends Well on June 21.The troupe’s performance of Willy’s five-act comedy romp did the bard credit...(read full review)
Article published June 12, 2009
UT News
By Staff
Make plans for a summer evening to see the Glacity Theatre Collective’s production of “All’s Well That Ends Well,” which will be performed outdoors, weather permitting, the last three weekends in June.
About "Suburban Motel: Criminal Genius | Problem Child"
Article published January 22, 2009
THEATRE REVIEW
Glacity to present pair of plays by George Walker
By NANCIANN CHERRY BLADE STAFF WRITER
Problem Child and Criminal Genius have been called fiercely funny comedies by Collective member Irene Alby; a Web site describes them as “the Three Stooges meet Reservoir Dogs.”
Director Cornel Gabara says they are comedies that deal in life and death situations, “very engaging but with farcical elements.”
The characters are real and have problems, he said in a telephone interview earlier this week. They’ve made bad choices and continue to make bad choices as they try to...(read full article)
About "Eurydice"
Article published September 13, 2008
THEATER REVIEW
Updated myth offers a timeless message
By NANCIANN CHERRY
BLADE STAFF WRITER
Everything from doctoral theses to dramas to operas to ballets have been inspired by the Greek myth of Orpheus, who mourned his beloved bride (she died on their wedding day) so much that he traveled to the underworld to retrieve her, only to lose her again.
One may wonder if there’s anything new to say, but Ruhl found a way...(read full article)
About "Breathing Corpses"
Article published February 20, 2008
Legitimate Versus Popular Theatre: Two Plays Bring Toledo the Best of Each
By GENEVA J. CHAPMAN
SOJOURNER'S TRUTH REPORTER
Article published January 31, 2008
Fascinating 'Breathing Corpses' lingers in the mind
By NANCIANN CHERRY
BLADE STAFF WRITER
The play, making its regional debut thanks to Glacity Theatre Collective, continues through Saturday in the old Frame Shop on Adams Street.
There are several deaths during the course of Wade's drama, but it's more sad than morbid, and the sadness comes from those who are living.
The play starts with...(read full article)
