REVIEW: “Sweat” at Capital Repertory Theatre

by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The suffering working class, inequities in pay between the haves and have-nots, lack of vocational mobility, drug and alcohol abuse, and racism all play critical roles in Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning play appearing at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, New York. Confronted with the…

Montague Shakespeare Festival Presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

MONTAGUE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL PRESENTS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM AT THE SHEA THEATER, 71 Avenue A, Turners Falls, MA Tickets: www.sheatheater.org March 29, 30, April 5, and 6 at 7:30PM April 7 at 2:00PM I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream—past the wit of man to say…

Scarlet Sock Foundation Holds 2024 Gala at The Blue Room

Scarlet Sock Foundation2024 Scarlet Sock Gala Mar 23, 2024 at 6:30 PMThe Blue Room, CitySpace, 43 Main Street in Easthampton, MA Come join us on March 23rd at the Blue Room/CitySpace in Easthampton to celebrate our 2023 grant recipients: The Drama Studio, Human Agenda Theater, Arts Integration Studio, Springfield Technical Community…

Hampshire Regional High School Presents “Mary Poppins”

Hampshire Regional High SchoolMary PoppinsMarch 22 and 23 at 7:00 PM, March 24 at 2:00 PMHampshire Regional High School, 19 Stage Rd., Westhampton, MA 01027 Hampshire Regional High School is thrilled to present the high-flying musical production, Mary Poppins, March 22-24, 2024. Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins is a…

REVIEW: “Afterlife: a ghost story” Creative License Theater Collective

by Jess Hoffman Creative License’s current production at Cohoes Music Hall calls itself a ghost story. In a sense it is; but Afterlife is about those psychological ghosts that haunt people from the inside: grief and regret, to name just two. The first act revolves around married couple Connor and…