REVIEW: “Just Another Day” at Great Barrington Public Theater
by Barbara Waldinger Actors are hired for piecemeal work–one production at a time—unless they are fortunate enough to be part of a continuing series, as…
REVIEW: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Shakespeare & Company
by Jeannie Marlin Woods Summer in the Berkshires is chocked full of delights and Shakespeare and Company is offering a super-duper production of A MIDSUMMER…
REVIEW: “The Secret Garden” at Playhouse Stage Company
by Jess Hoffman Playhouse Stage Company has chosen a play with local roots for its second summer production. Based on a 1911 novel of the…
REVIEW: “Oliver!” at the Sharon Playhouse
by Macey Levin The Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, Connecticut, is currently presenting Lionel Bart’s Oliver! a show seldom produced on local stages. Presented on Broadway…
REVIEW: “Godspell” at the Mac-Haydn
by Lisa Jarisch I have been waiting not-so-patiently many a year for the Mac-Haydn Theatre to take on this show, one of my absolute personal…
REVIEW: “The Light” at the Chester Theatre Company
by Macey Levin Enduring love requires people to look into themselves in order to realize who they really are or what they have become in…
REVIEW: “Fences” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger August Wilson’s towering play Fences, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama, is a challenging work for any theatre to produce. Expectations…
REVIEW: “The Goat (or Who is Sylvia?)” at Schenectady Civic Players
by Jess Hoffman So far this year I have reviewed plays about such heavy topics as drug addiction, incest, revolution, and pedophilia. And yet none…