REVIEW: “The Chinese Lady” at Barrington Stage
by Macey Levin The first Chinese woman to arrive in America was Afong Moy in 1834; she was 14 years old. Her father sent her…
REVIEW” “Creditors” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger In a recent interview with the Times Union, Nicole Ricciardi, director of Shakespeare & Company’s current production of Creditors, describes the play…
REVIEW: “Skeleton Crew” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
by Roseann Cane The only way to truly understand the impact of a crisis is to put a face on it, to humanize it, to…
REVIEW: “Richard II” at Walking the dog Theater
by Barbara Waldinger How is it possible for a local theatre, performing in a school with a cast of seventeen, including a small group of…
REVIEW: “A Doll’s House, Part 2”
by Barbara Waldinger Henrik Ibsen is a tough act to follow. At the end of his 1879 masterpiece, A Doll’s House, audiences gasped as Nora…
REVIEW: “Artney Jackson” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Macey Levin Playwright James Anthony Tyler’s work has been performed in several off-Broadway and regional theatres including the Berkshire Playwrights Lab in Great Barrington,…
REVIEW: “The Whipping Man” at Oldcastle
by Roseann Cane In the days following the end of the Civil War, a young Confederate soldier named Caleb (Justin Pietropaolo) painfully makes his way…
REVIEW: “Ring of Fire” at Capital Repertory Theatre
by Roseann Cane There are rare occasions when audience hooting, hollering, and foot-stomping add to the enjoyment of a night of theater, and Ring of Fire:…