The Actors Theatre of Orcas Island has put on some well-directed plays we’ve all enjoyed, but the play that opened last Friday at the Grange is in a class by itself.
It’s been a long, dark, cold winter and I’ve had enough. My clothes don’t fit and my dog got hit…
When Jane Barfoot-Hodde joined the Grange in 1931, farms and orchards blossomed all over Orcas Island. The Grange building in…
The Grange was transformed and transported to another time and place as the Actor’s Theater of Orcas Island staged “Arthur:…
Doug Bechtel and the Actors Theatre of Orcas Island have cooked up another summer treat for us with ‘Getting Along Famously’, Michael Jacobs’ nutty play about a successful author unhappy with his success.
Doug Bechtel’s brought us a real treat with Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys,” his latest production for The Actors Theater of Orcas Island at the Grange. In casting John Mazzarella as Willie Clark, the curmudgeonly wiseguy comic who still resents his Vaudeville partner after 11 years of silence between them, Bechtel has chosen a strong local actor who fills his role well. Fred Whitridge is a wonderful counterpoint to Mazzarella’s manic petulance, his character of Al Lewis a man who accepts his own changed circumstances gracefully while retaining a sharp wit to parry his old partner Clark’s constant verbal jabs.
