REVIEW: “Pump Boys and Dinettes” at the Theater Barn
by Gail M. Burns Back in the early 1980’s a couple of musician friends dressed up in mechanics overalls, billed themselves as the Pump Boys,…
REVIEW: “Seared” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Barbara Waldinger Wilted spinach salad with warm bacon dressing; seared wild salmon with a Bengali onion chutney; seared asparagus with olive oil, salt and…
REVIEW: “Lempicka” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Macey Levin There was woman, born to a Jewish father and Catholic mother in Warsaw, Poland, in 1898. In Petrograd Russia, she married a…
REVIEW: The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
It’s late July and the theatre scene is hopping! None of our regular Berkshire On Stage critics was able to fit a trip to the…
REVIEW: “The Chinese Lady” at Barrington Stage
by Macey Levin The first Chinese woman to arrive in America was Afong Moy in 1834; she was 14 years old. Her father sent her…
REVIEW” “Creditors” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger In a recent interview with the Times Union, Nicole Ricciardi, director of Shakespeare & Company’s current production of Creditors, describes the play…
REVIEW: “Skeleton Crew” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
by Roseann Cane The only way to truly understand the impact of a crisis is to put a face on it, to humanize it, to…
REVIEW: “Richard II” at Walking the dog Theater
by Barbara Waldinger How is it possible for a local theatre, performing in a school with a cast of seventeen, including a small group of…