REVIEW: “The Cake” at Barrington Stage Company
by Barbara Walldinger Directions for a perfect production of The Cake:Â Â start with a brilliant, sensitive and brave playwright (Bekah Brunstetter), add a director who…
REVIEW: “Bar Mitzvah Boy” at Chester Theatre Company
by Barbara Waldinger Metaphor: the oft-repeated word describing Rabbi Michael Levitz-Sharon (Tara Franklin)’s view of biblical stories in Mark-Leiren-Young’s Bar Mitzvah Boy. The Creation of…
REVIEW: “Cabaret” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Macey Levin Cabaret, first produced in 1966, is set in 1929-1930 as the Nazi Party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler is growing into…
REVIEW: “The Road to Mecca” at Silverthorne Theater
by Jenny Hansell The Road to Mecca, South African playwright Athol Fugard’s 1984 play about an elderly artist in a remote desert town, is being…
REVIEW: “The Almost True and Truly Remarkable Adventures of Israel Potter” at Oldcastle
by Gail M. Burns Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, first published in serial form from 1854-1855, is Herman Melville’s only historical novel, based…
REVIEW: “Church & State” at Berkshire Theatre Group
by Roseann Cane A screen descends, and on it a political television commercial appears. We hear the voice of Senator Charles Whitmore (Graham Rowat), a…
REVIEW: “Anything Goes” at the Sharon Playhouse
by Macey Levin Cole Porter’s music has been part of the American Song Book since 1915 beginning with a little-known show Hands Up. His breakthrough…
REVIEW: “The Tempest” GhostLit Rep at St. James Place
by Macey Levin Several of William Shakespeare’s plays have been made into musicals or operas… namely. The Comedy of Errors became Rodgers and Hart’s The…