LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company, in association with Great Barrington Public Theater, presents Jim Frangione’s Flight of the Monarch, directed by Judy Braha Saturday, August 3 through Sunday, August 25 at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. This darkly comic play tells the story of two siblings, Sheila (Corinna May) and Thomas…
by Macey Levin Chester Theatre Company, Chester, Massachusetts, has built a reputation of producing provocative plays. Their most recent production of Unreconciled, workshopped and given its world premiere at Chester, is about to move to London. The current offering Will Sacrifice by Julie McKee is another premiere. It doesn’t match…
by Sierra Pasquale “Think about your life, Pippin, days are tame and nights the same” are usually not the first lyricsthat leap to mind when one says, “Pippin”, but they’re the ones that have always stuck with me.Most folks of a certain age will pull up the hit song that…
David B. Byrd Departing for New Opportunity EAST HADDAM, Conn. (July 29, 2024) – Goodspeed Musicals announces that they are embarking on a search for a new managing director to replace David B. Byrd, who will depart depart his role as Goodspeed’s first Managing Director at the end of September. Byrd is…
by Macey Levin Connecticut’s Sharon Playhouse once more “Zazzes” up the 2024 summer season with a musical that makes the audience laugh, cheer and tear up. The Prom, with a book by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin, music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Beguelin, is a hilarious romp about arrogance,…
Capital Region Festival of Theatre is throwing a CAST PARTY at the historic Cohoes Music Hall on Sunday, 10/27 at 7pm hosted by Playhouse Stage Company. All proceeds will benefit the inaugural Festival, to be presented In 2025. Join us for an evening celebrating the extraordinary wealth of theatrical talent…
by Emily Edelman Living Room Theatre’s “Amor & Psyche: A Mythological Comedy” is taken from the classical story included in the second-century work “Metamorphosis” by Apuleius. LRT co-founder Randolyn Zinn’s retelling moves quickly with updated language and situations that connect with a modern audience without undermining the source material. Director…
Afro-Indigenous singer/songwriter Martha Redbone and her collaborator/husband Aaron Whitby will bring a work-in-progress showing of their new theater project CONVERSATIONS to the Ancram Center for the Arts on Sunday, August. 4, at 4pm. This new piece was developed from intimate conversation with Native American elders and family members who have been in…
