by Jeannie Marlin Woods MOONGLOW is an amusing comedy by Jack Neary, which opened October 26th at the Majestic Theater in West Springfield, Massachusetts. This charming love story is set in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1967 with flashbacks to the 1940s. Neary is no stranger to the Majestic, whose audiences have…
Preview by Gail M. Burns For the past three years or so, theatre artists David Cale and Dael Orlandersmith, along with musician Matthew Dean Marsh and director Robert Falls, have been thinking about loneliness (being alone when you don’t want to be) and aloneness (being alone by choice.) Artistic creation…
1. Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play: Nominees: A. Bella Merlin, The Contention, Shakespeare & Co. B. Jasminn Johnson, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Barrington Stage Company C. Sally McCarthy, Invitation to a March, Ghent Playhouse D. Marinell Madden-Crippen, Our Town, Sharon Playhouse E. Geneva Turner, The Lion in Winter, Bridge…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods Who doesn’t like a good old murder mystery? They tease the mind and offer endless possibilities for entertainment. The latest summer fare from the Lake George Dinner Theatre is funny, diverting, and perfectly suited to the audience in this summer resort area. In case you are…
by Macey Levin Every theatre-goer in America probably knows Tennessee Williams’ classic drama The Glass Menagerie. The play is about hope, fear, frustration and, ultimately, the search for forgiveness. Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York, has mounted a memorable and lovely production of this seventy-nine-year old masterpiece. Director Steven…
by Roseann Cane In 1941, the German atomic physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his former mentor, Danish physicist Neils Bohr, and Bohr’s wife Margrethe, in their home in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen. Both men were to give conflicting reports of what happened during the meeting, and this has long been the subject…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss All Americans know how privileged we are that English is a universal language. Rarely are we forced to learn a second language. Traveling and studying are not often impeded by our inability to speak or read the native tongue of other countries. Sanaz Toossi, an Iranian-American playwright…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods Intelligent? Provocative? Hilarious? Face-paced? Crowd-pleasing? What is the most exact, precise, factual word or phrase to describe the latest production at the Sharon Playhouse? THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT generates such thought and is, in fact, all of those things. This soul-searching script , jam-packed with…
