Elizabeth Chambers

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Mad Horse’s Becky Shaw peers behind the love curtain

The one who knew too much
Three months after her father's death, the two people closest to thirty-something Suzanna (Elizabeth Chambers) don't have a lot of patience for her grief, which has her reduced to a weeping mess watching bad TV under a blanket.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 08, 2012

Review: Theater Project's Pride and Prejudice stays authentically powerful

Classical strength
Jane Austen's classic 19th-century novel of manners and morals, Pride and Prejudice , has undergone a truly weird range of reinterpretations. But the classics also deserve a little unalloyed love.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 01, 2011

Love Potion #3

The Maiden’s Prayer at Mad Horse
More people love Taylor than is good for harmony.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 24, 2010

The mouths of babes

Mad Horse’s chilling season opener
The terrorism of emotional manipulation and smear campaigns is certainly alive and well anywhere that somebody wants a certain kind of power.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 16, 2008

Natural style

The Theater Project's fab Steel Magnolias
The Louisiana salon run by Truvy is packed with the stuff of 1980s comfort and beauty: Tab, trolls, and a whole slew of blow dryers.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 07, 2008

Find your Bliss

Sneezing with laughter at Hay Fever
In this lovely house in Cookham, England, life is only about bliss. About the Family Bliss, that is.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 24, 2007

Back in the acts

A year in Maine theater
When it comes to dramatics, there’s plenty to toast at this year’s end.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 20, 2006

Cross-pollination

What can actors and musicians learn from each other?
My contribution to the Band Guide issue is a meditation on some of the telling differences between the theater and band scenes, in the interest of seeing the one pick up a little of the notorious energy and audience of the other.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 23, 2006