Saint Sebastian Players Archives

Seven actors in evening dress are gathered around a sofa in an apartment. The three people seated on the sofa are looking at the New York Times and the four behind them are looking over their shoulders.

Showfolk follies

by Matt Simonette May 4, 2023May 4, 2023

I’m generally not a huge fan of material wherein creative folk in any discipline—theater, film, publishing, music—turn to their own profession for inspiration. If a movie is about filmmaking, or a novel is about a tortured novelist, or a singer crows about how hard life is on the road, I check out pretty quickly. So […]

Two white men sit in armchairs center. Behind them are three younger white women in 1960s flight attendant uniforms. An older white woman in a housekeeper's uniform stands on the far right. The set looks like a 1960s living room.

Theater Review

Great character work helps Boeing-Boeing take off at Saint Sebastian Players

by Matt Simonette November 3, 2022November 4, 2022

In Boeing-Boeing, the 1960 French sex comedy by Marc Camoletti (translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans) that’s now being mounted by Saint Sebastian Players, protagonist Bernard (Garrett Wiegel), an expat American in Paris, is juggling three different “fiancees.” He explains to friend Robert (Joshua Paul Wright), who is visiting from Wisconsin, the one central […]