REVIEW: “Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer” at the Chester Theatre Company
by Jeannie Marlin Woods “Nobody is free until everybody is free.” So declared Black activist Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper’s daughter with a 6th grade…
REVIEW: “The Secret Garden” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The Secret Garden, Mac-Haydn’s third musical of the 2026 summer season is in full bloom. John Saunders beautifully directs this outstanding cast…
REVIEW: “Suddenly Last Summer” at Bard Summerscape
by Patrick White Suddenly Last Summer adapted from Tennessee Williams’ play as an opera with a ravishing score by Courtney Bryan, libretto by Gideon Lester and…
REVIEW: “Mother. Daughter. Father. Son. ” at the Adirondack Theatre Festival
by Patrick White Mother. Daughter. Father. Son. opened Wednesday night at Adirondack Theatre Festival as an eagerly anticipated play this summer as it is the World…
REVIEW: “9 to 5” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Patrick White 9 to 5: The Musical playing at Mac-Haydn Theatre in Chatham with a spirited performance for only two more performances on Sunday is…
REVIEW: “As You Like It” at The Rooted Voyageurs
by Jess Hoffman I’ve seen more than my share of professional Shakespeare productions in beautiful, controlled theater spaces. And say what you will for such…
REVIEW: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” at Playhouse Stage Company
by Sierra Pasquale As a millennial, I grew up on the works of Roald Dahl. His books occupied a permanent place on my bookshelf, but…
REVIEW: “Fireflies” at Shakespeare & Company
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss I knew I had to see and review Fireflies by Matthew Barber at Shakespeare & Company. My husband just published his novel,…