Campbell Theatre - The Golden Bay Times

Strange Ladies marches straight into the fevered fight for women’s suffrage with music in its bloodstream and protest in its bones. Set as America enters World War I, the play follows a diverse group of radical suffragists pressing for the vote while wrestling with the personal costs of public courage. These women are not porcelain saints posed for a history-book photograph. They are strategic, scared, stubborn, funny, angry, exhausted, and still moving forward because the alternative is silence. Period protest songs thread through the story like a rallying cry, giving the drama the pulse of a movement that had to be sung, shouted, organized, and endured. The title hints at the insult hurled at women who dared to demand power, but the play turns that label into a badge of nerve. Without turning history into homework, it captures the pressure of activism, the fractures inside coalitions, and the wild audacity of people who refuse to wait politely for rights that should have been theirs all along. It is history with a raised fist, a beating heart, and a chorus that refuses to hush.

The Rocky Horror Show is a midnight-flavored carnival of sci-fi spoof, glam-rock mischief, and gleefully naughty theatrical excess. It begins with Brad and Janet, two squeaky-clean sweethearts whose wholesome road trip goes spectacularly sideways when a breakdown leads them to a strange mansion full of characters who seem to have escaped from a B-movie, a cabaret, and somebody’s glitter-covered fever dream. From there, the night becomes a wild parade of temptation, identity games, monster-movie parody, fishnet rebellion, and songs that practically kick the doors open. The fun is not subtle, and it is not trying to be. It is bold, cheeky, strange, and proudly ridiculous, with a wink big enough to light the room. Under the camp and chaos is a story about curiosity, repression, desire, and the danger of pretending you are more innocent than you really are. It is theatrical junk food with a sly brain, a big beat, and no interest whatsoever in behaving itself, which is precisely why its oddball spell keeps working. It is a wink, a dare, a singalong, and a glorious theatrical sugar rush all at once.