Review: And The Winner Is (Triangle Arts & Entertainment)Raleigh Little Theatre review A Charming But Lightweight Comedy, Mitch Albom’s “And the Winner Is” Raleigh Little Theatre and Actors Comedy Lab’s charming co-production of Mitch Albom’s lightweight 2005 comedy, AND THE WINNER IS, which will complete its three-week run Sept. 16-19 and 23-26 in RLT’s intimate Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre, is a mash-up of second-chance movies, such as HERE COMES MR. JORDAN (1941) and IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946). This time, the died-before-his-time central character is self-centered middle-aged actor Tyler Johnes (Scott Nagel), who has finally received an Academy Award® nomination, but dies of a heart attack on the eve of the Oscar ceremonies. When he wakes up in an “in-between place,” which looks a lot like a seedy Irish pub, with an equally seedy Irish bartender named Seamus (Tony Hefner), without any liquor or floozies, Johnes immediately starts bargaining with Seamus to get a reprieve from his eternal dirt nap long enough to pick of his Oscar, if the academy is so generous to bestow one upon him. Read the rest of the review at Triangle Arts & Entertainment. You are here: Home > Reviews and articles about the theatre's productions > Review: And The Winner Is (Triangle Arts & Entertainment) |