The Mac-Haydn Theatre Debuts “Something Rotten”

(August 8, 2024–Chatham, NY) The Mac-Haydn Theatre is thrilled to announce the debut of the musical comedy Something Rotten for three weeks from August 15 to September 1. This uproarious show is a mash-up of 16th-century Shakespeare and 21st-century Broadway, offering a fresh take on the musical theatre genre with its family friendly storyline and…

Star-Crossed “Constellations” at Ancram Center for the Arts

British playwright Nick Payne’s award-winning Constellations (Best Play, 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards) follows the romantic relationship of Roland, a beekeeper, and Marianne, a physicist. This love story winds across a quantum universe, in which every outcome is equally possible. The New Yorker called Constellations “A singular astonishment.” Stars and real-life married couple Andrus Nichols…

REVIEW: “Big Big Sky” at Chester Theatre Company

by Mark G. Auerbach (This review originally appeared in Westfield News. Used with the author’s permission.) There are three heroes onstage in Chester Theatre’s 35th season finale, the American Premiere of Tom Wells’ Big Big Sky. First hero is Joel Ripka, an actor with multiple Chester credits, who stepped in at…