REVIEW: “Dead Girl’s Quinceañera” at Barrington Stage Company
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Who doesn’t love a mystery? Honestly, me. But I could not help but be drawn into Dead Girl’s Quinceañera by Phanesia Pharel…
REVIEW: “The Lisbon Traviata” at Bridge Street Theatre
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss This seems to be the season for reviving Tony award-winning playwright Terrence McNally’s plays. Having just reviewed Frankie and Johnny at the…
REVIEW: “Black Coffee” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Patrick White Black Coffee served up by the Circle Theatre Players at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts has a most pleasing appearance, stage…
REVIEW: “The Legend of Georgia McBride” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Barbara Waldinger From the moment David Adkins appears at a microphone wearing a baseball cap (as Eddie, the nearly bankrupt owner of Cleo’s bar…
REVIEW: “Fellow Travelers” at the Glimmerglass Festival
by Patrick White Fellow Travelers takes its place on Glimmerglass Festival’s schedule as the “modern masterpiece” as Artistic and General Director Rob Ainsley described it in…
REVIEW: “Shake It Up: The Remix” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger Allyn Burrows, Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, has been seeking ways to expand the company’s repertoire by collaborating with…
REVIEW: “Advice” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
by Jeannie Marlin Woods The current summer offering at the inimitable Dorset Theatre Festival is ADVICE by playwright Brent Askari. This highly successful theatre organization…
REVIEW: “Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune” at Shakespeare & Company
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Lovemaking, music, and laughter greet us before the lights come up on the Elayne P. Bernstein stage in Terrence McNally’s Frankie and…