REVIEW: “Sanctuary City” at TheaterWorks Hartford
by Jeannie Marlin Woods Hope for the future is an ephemeral sensation—sometimes seeming like a broken scrap of wood in a stormy sea. That glimmer…
REVIEW: “The Glass Menagerie” at Bridge Street Theatre
by Macey Levin Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York, presented Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie in October of last year. Their last weekend, with…
REVIEW: “Longing Lasts Longer” at Bridge Street Theatre
by Macey Levin The last of Bridge Street Theatre‘s 2024 SoloFest is Penny Arcade’s “Longing Lasts Longer.” Ms. Arcade is a noted downtown New York…
REVIEW: “In The Blood” at Harbinger Theatre
by Dan Mayer Back in the 1990s, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks had made a joking comment that she would write a riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The…
REVIEW: “August: Osage County” at the Schenectady Civic Players
by Jess Hoffman Until I saw Schenectady Civic Players’ current production, August: Osage County was my favorite play that I had never seen. That is…
REVIEW: “Fun Home” at Schenectady Light Opera Company (SLOC Musical Theater)
by Jess Hoffman Fun Home is a musical adaptation of the autobiography of Alison Bechdel. For those unfamiliar, Alison Bechdel is a well known lesbian…
REVIEW: “The Great Divide” at Bridge Street Theatre
by Macey Levin Bridge Street Theatre’s SoloFest presented its third of four one-woman plays March 15 through 17. “The Great Divide,” written and performed by…
REVIEW: “Sweat” at Capital Repertory Theatre
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The suffering working class, inequities in pay between the haves and have-nots, lack of vocational mobility, drug and alcohol abuse, and racism…