Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes is awfully hard to stage. The novel relies much more on introspection and narrative than dialogue and action, and is thus in many ways the antithesis of a medium that eliminates the internal monologue.

Bradbury's adaptation, and the Lakewood Playhouse production, rely much more on recreating the dark tone and vivid imagery of the novel than its thematic depth.

As such, Something Wicked must be very technically ambitious, and in this director David Domkoski and his design crew succeed quite thoroughly.

To read Joe Izenman's full review, click here.

[Lakewood Playhouse, Something Wicked This Way Comes, through Oct. 23, Friday-Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m., $17-$23, 5729 Lakewood Towne Center Blvd., Lakewood, 253.588.0042]