“Broadway Bounty Hunter” delights critics and public, adds performance
New musicals are the most difficult for Berkshire theatres to put together successfully for the simple reason that there are twice as many creative voices…
“Tribes” at Barrington Stage: Intriguing, vivid, flawed, honest
Billy never learned to sign: his parents were against it. But into his life comes Sylvia, who is trying to learn as her hearing fades, and everything comes into question.
Fresh and new, “Broadway Bounty Hunter” is a chop-socky musical delight at Barrington Stage
With nonstop singing, dancing and kung-fu action spread across a modest sized stage by twelve hyper-active performers, Broadway Bounty Hunter is new, different and utterly delightful.
Australian play “And No More Shall We Part” debuts at Williamstown Festival
Tom Holloway’s deeply emotional play employs both sensitive direction and superb acting to draw its audience into the question of terminal illness and unassisted suicide.
In Cambridge, NY: Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre’s magnificent “Madama Butterfly”
Bei-Bei Guan sang the title role superbly, in this tragic opera where a Navy captain who leaves his “wife” and child behind after a fraudulent marriage returns at last.
In Williamstown: 20 years later, “An American Daughter” tackles issues still in the news
When a 20-year-old play still seems fresh today, one has to wonder if out current political scene has regressed as much as it has advanced. Wendy Wasserstein was prescient in her observation of misogynistic politics. Picture: Diane Davis and Saidah Arrika Ekulona. Photograph T. Charles Erickson.
Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat fill “Constellations” with depth and meaning
A cosmologist and a beekeeper exchange objective ideas, and infuse them with emotional resonance.
Stephan Wolfert’s “Cry Havoc” is a performance not to be missed
A personal tale that is at once harrowing, hilarious and uplifting, Stephen Wolfert has created a scalding narrative out of a chance encounter with Shakespeare’s “Richard III.”