LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company opens its 47th season on Friday, June 21 with A Body of Water by Lee Blessing, a comedic thriller presented outdoors at the Roman Garden Theatre through July 21. A revised script staged only once before, Blessing’s A Body of Water tells the story of Moss and…
by Sierra Pasquale For their final offering of their remarkable 49th season, the Ghent Playhouse presents Annie Baker’s Obie Award-winning Circle Mirror Transformation, which delivers a microscopic view into a drama class for amateur actors in Shirley, Vermont. The synopsis reads: “When four lost New Englanders, enrolled in a six-week…
by Sierra Pasquale What could be a more idyllic setting for Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s musical The Secret Garden (based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett) than the Pitney Meadows Community Farm? As it happens, this musical, that ran for 709 performances on…
by Jess Hoffman To close out their season, Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York is producing a collection of one-acts, playfully titled One Act Jamboree. The one common thread among these plays is that they showcase, in one way or another, the Black experience. Many of these plays are…
