by Gail M. Burns Forever Plaid has been around for 30+ years now and I have seen dozens of productions, starting with one at The Theater Barn in 1995. It is one of my very favorite shows and I always have a great time. So I was really shocked when…
by Macey Levin On a recent Thursday evening hundreds of people in Sharon, Connecticut suffered from a similar malady. Their sides were aching from the non-stop laughter at Sharon Playhouse’s hoot of a show Shear Madness. There is very little time to catch one’s breath with a host of sterling…
by Barbara Waldinger Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, now being staged at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse, is known as a “problem play.” Neither tragedy nor comedy, it lives somewhere in between, which is probably why it is rarely produced. But this Lenox company ended up with more problems than…
by Macey Levin One of the first plays of the Theatre of the Absurd was Jean Genet’s “The Maids” in 1947 which was followed by Eugene Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano” in 1950. This is a theatrical form that alludes to the absurdity of existence in a grotesque world by a…
by Barbara Waldinger In the age of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, how is a director embarking on a production of one of the many versions of the Don Juan story to approach the lasciviousness of the main character? Beginning in the Middle Ages, across multiple genres and cultures…
by Barbara Waldinger “Set during Eugene O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night, failure, denial and passion roil as two Irish servants and an American chauffeur pass the day in the kitchen of the Tyrone family’s residence in 1912.” (Publicity blurb: Dorset Theatre Festival’s production of Thirst by Ronán Noone). …
TheaterWorks Hartford, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero, is thrilled to announce details for its upcoming 2022–2023 season which is filled with great music, captivating stories, and world-class writing. In fact, all four productions of its 37th season showcase some of the most important voices working in American Theater – all…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods THE FULL MONTY, which opened August 18th at the Mac-Haydn Theatre ends with a big,show-stopping song and dance number called “Let It Go.” Warning: this is not the world of Elsaand FROZEN! Instead, we are in down-on-its-luck Buffalo, New York, maybe in the 1980s,where the local…
