Like many of us whose musical theater experience is informed by Stephen Sondheim more than any other composer/ lyricist (my first was the original Broadway production of “Company’ when I was a college Freshman), “Into The Woods” has always been one of my favorites. “Sweeney Todd” always my #1 but the older I get the more “Into The Woods” moves up my list. Now, with the semi-staged Encores! transfer to Broadway, “Into the Woods” comes at a time when it seems more meaning

This is an excerpt about POOF! from my August 2021 review of the three Plein Air plays, one of which was POOF, that AOH produced last summer. ....The most transporting play of the triptych, the last, is “POOF!” written and performed by actor/author and LGBTQ+ activist Celeste Lecesne, who wowed audiences with his 2015 Drama Desk- winning solo show “The The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey”. “Poof!" is set in a woodland glen under the spreading trunks of a 200 year ol