REVIEW: “West Side Story” at Barrington Stage
by Jenny Hansell There was a moment at the beginning of the Barrington Stage Company production of West Side Story where Riff, the leader of the…
REVIEW: “The Wedding Singer” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Lisa Jarisch As filling as the first slice of wedding cake, and almost twice as sweet, The Wedding Singer literally heads down the aisles…
REVIEW: “Homebody” at the Ancram Opera House
by Barbara Waldinger A middle-aged Englishwoman, identified only as Homebody, tries in vain to remember the name of her anti-depressant: “a portmanteau chemical cocktail word…
REVIEW: “Barefoot in the Park” at the Sharon Playhouse
by Macey Levin Neil Simon, now 91 years old, is one of the premier comic playwrights of the American theatre. The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite,…
REVIEW: “Pump Boys and Dinettes” at the Theater Barn
by Gail M. Burns Back in the early 1980’s a couple of musician friends dressed up in mechanics overalls, billed themselves as the Pump Boys,…
REVIEW: “Seared” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Barbara Waldinger Wilted spinach salad with warm bacon dressing; seared wild salmon with a Bengali onion chutney; seared asparagus with olive oil, salt and…
REVIEW: “Lempicka” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Macey Levin There was woman, born to a Jewish father and Catholic mother in Warsaw, Poland, in 1898. In Petrograd Russia, she married a…
REVIEW: The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
It’s late July and the theatre scene is hopping! None of our regular Berkshire On Stage critics was able to fit a trip to the…