REVIEW: “Pride and Prejudice” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
“What defines a great work is that it continues to be generous to people who are making new productions.” – Daniel Fish* Jane Austen is…
REVIEW: “She Loves Me” at The Theater Barn
by Gail M. Burns She Loves Me is the very definition of the word “charming.” It premiered on Broadway in 1963, in the heyday of…
REVIEW: “Dangerous House” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Barbara Waldinger South Africa is the ONLY African country where gay marriage is legal. At the same time, the common South African practice of…
REVIEW: “A Quiet Place” at Tanglewood
by Fred Baumgarten The best way to appreciate Leonard Bernstein’s 1983 opera, A Quiet Place, is through the music. At Tanglewood last week, this infrequently performed…
REVIEW: “The Aliens” at Chester Theatre Company
by Macey Levin After establishing her credentials with Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation and The Aliens, Annie Baker won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Drama…
REVIEW: “West Side Story” at Barrington Stage
by Jenny Hansell There was a moment at the beginning of the Barrington Stage Company production of West Side Story where Riff, the leader of the…
REVIEW: “The Wedding Singer” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Lisa Jarisch As filling as the first slice of wedding cake, and almost twice as sweet, The Wedding Singer literally heads down the aisles…
REVIEW: “Homebody” at the Ancram Opera House
by Barbara Waldinger A middle-aged Englishwoman, identified only as Homebody, tries in vain to remember the name of her anti-depressant: “a portmanteau chemical cocktail word…