by Macey Levin There’s a ton of energy pouring off the stage at Sharon Playhouse’s production of Million Dollar Quartet. This electrifying show written by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux opened on Broadway in 2010. It is based on an actual incident when four rock ‘n’ roll icons – Elvis…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Victimhood, the Holocaust, racism, classism, abuse, revenge, dementia, fear, helplessness and family. All these moving themes and more are addressed in Lawrence Goodman’s world premiere play, The Victim, at Shakespeare & Company. Introduced to three women on a relatively spare stage, save a bed, a table, and…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The classic, yet dated musical, Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon, is entertaining crowds at the Mac-Haydn Theatre. Brought back to the early 1950s when women were Dolls who wanted to snag men,…
by Jess Hoffman I have said previously in writing for Berkshire On Stage that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is my all-time favorite play. Whenever I see it produced I go into the show with high hopes and high expectations. I’ll admit I had some trepidation going into The Rooted Voyageurs‘…
by Shera Cohen Special to Berkshire on Stage Bravo to CT local, yet nation-wide, prolific playwright-extraordinaire Jacques LaMarre for yet another off-beat humorous play. LaMarre has a skill that tickles his audiences with consistent and often risqué chuckles; not belly-laughs, and that is exactly what he is going for. “The…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss How rare it is to attend a brand-new musical by an unknown writer and composer and to feel captured by the very first number. That was my experience seeing The Waiting, A New Musical still in process, produced by Playhouse Stage Company at the Cohoes Music Hall,…
by Emily Edelman In the world premiere of Maggie Kearnan’s “How to Not Save the World With Mr. Bezos” presented by Great Barrington Public Theater, an alternate reality in which it is illegal to be a billionaire sees journalist Cherry Beaumont interviewing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos about his motivations for wealth.…
by Barbara Waldinger “Stop talking,” says Nancy Pelosi to the newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom she has invited to her office. But discussion is the point of this seventy-seven minute intermission-less series of confrontations between the two women from 2018-2022, currently playing at Barrington Stage Company’s St. Germain Stage.…
