by Emily Edelman Heidi Armbruster’s semi-autobiographical one-woman show “Scarecrow” opens with two well-meaning friends offering awkward advice to the main character on how to make funeral arrangements for her father, who is in the hospital dying of cancer. Based on the author’s own experience of living with her father for…
by Barbara Waldinger Shakespeare & Company’s production of A Walk in the Woods is a master class in Acting. Jonathan Epstein and Allyn Burrows play Andrey Botvinnik, a career Soviet negotiator, and John Honeyman, a younger American negotiator, respectively, as they attempt to craft a treaty over the course of…
by Roseann Cane Writing this review may prove to be among the most unpleasant tasks I’ve experienced in quite some time. The Most Happy Fella is one of my favorite musicals. I’m but one of many people who consider it Frank Loesser’s masterpiece. Unlike other musicals by Loesser (which include…
by Barbara Waldinger Every once in a while a production comes along in which all of its elements coalesce perfectly, creating a whole world in which you’d like to remain long after the lights dim. Kelly Galvin’s production of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare & Company is such a…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods They say that the fear of public speaking is, for most people, greater than the fear of death. As such, this fear is a topic that is perfectly relatable and a great subject for comedy, as demonstrated by Mark St. Germain’s new play, PUBLIC SPEAKING 101.…
by Barbara Waldinger Barrington Stage Company’s ABCD is a slick World Premiere filled with a great deal of action but not much substance. The first-ever production of playwright May Treuhaft-Ali, its subject is the failure of an educational system that encourages cheating by both teachers and students. George…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods MAN OF GOD by Anna Ouyang Moench, currently on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, is an astonishing theatrical adventure. With a burst of K-Pop music, the lights come up on a hotel room in Bangkok and four Korean-American teenagers in a super big…
by Lisa Jarisch Satire? Farce? Social Commentary? Political humor? Ecological & Environmental Propaganda ? Black comedy? Don’t bother trying to slot the Mac-Haydn‘s first-ever production of Urinetown into its “proper place” in musical theatre; it doesn’t have one. What it does have is a place as a show that checks…
