Dishing at the Diner

Fronting the Order is a personal work, lovingly crafted and full of wonderful period details ...

Joshua Silvain, Tenoch Gomez and Denise Blum inFronting the Order.

Beowulf and Wellangoode Productions deserve praise for bringing this play to the stage for the first time. Not every new work is a masterpiece, but without opportunities to be seen onstage, a writer's best work never has a chance to emerge.

Each of the actors playing a salesman seems to possess the energy essential to his role. Colecchia is thoughtful and self-effacing; Gomez is robust and volatile. Silvain is incredibly guarded until he reveals his character's true colors with a fury, and Epstein mixes the wisdom of experience with a short fuse.

Playwright Warren Bodow has spent enough winters in Tucson to be considered a local writer. Writing is a second career for Bodow, who spent 15 years managing classical radio stations for the New York Times Company. In 2009, he won favorable reviews for his playRace Music, produced in New York by the Diverse City Theater Company....

I hope that we have the opportunity to continue watching his talent emerge onstage here in the Old Pueblo.

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Dishing at the Diner | Review | Tucson Weekly

Fronting the Order

Presented by Beowulf Alley Theatre Company and Wellangoode Productions

7:30 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, through Saturday, April 23, with a matinee at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, April 17, and a show at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 20

11 S. Sixth Ave.

$19

Runs two hours, with one intermission

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