REVIEW: “The Mousetrap” at The Theater Barn
by Gail M. Burns The original London production of The Mousetrap, which opened in 1952, is STILL running; and there are endless amateur stagings every…
REVIEW: “Mamma Mia!” at the Mac-Haydn
by Barbara Waldinger The local go-to venue for big, splashy summer musicals is usually Chatham’s Mac-Haydn Theatre. The tiny stage is characteristically populated with dozens…
REVIEW: “Coming Back Like a Song!” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Macey Levin There’s a nostalgic diversion receiving its world premiere at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Fitzpatrick Main Stage in Stockbridge, MA. Coming Back Like a…
REVIEW: “The Sound Inside” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Roseann Cane “Fruitful introversion is possible only when there is also a relation to the outside.”  –C.G. Jung The world premiere of The Sound…
REVIEW: “The Closet” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Macey Levin Martin O’Reilly is divorced, his son won’t speak to him, he’s probably going to be fired from a job he doesn’t like…
REVIEW: “The Cake” at Barrington Stage Company
by Barbara Walldinger Directions for a perfect production of The Cake:Â Â start with a brilliant, sensitive and brave playwright (Bekah Brunstetter), add a director who…
REVIEW: “Bar Mitzvah Boy” at Chester Theatre Company
by Barbara Waldinger Metaphor: the oft-repeated word describing Rabbi Michael Levitz-Sharon (Tara Franklin)’s view of biblical stories in Mark-Leiren-Young’s Bar Mitzvah Boy. The Creation of…
REVIEW: “Cabaret” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Macey Levin Cabaret, first produced in 1966, is set in 1929-1930 as the Nazi Party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler is growing into…