REVIEW: “Homebody” at the Ancram Opera House
by Barbara Waldinger A middle-aged Englishwoman, identified only as Homebody, tries in vain to remember the name of her anti-depressant: “a portmanteau chemical cocktail word…
REVIEW: “Seared” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Barbara Waldinger Wilted spinach salad with warm bacon dressing; seared wild salmon with a Bengali onion chutney; seared asparagus with olive oil, salt and…
REVIEW” “Creditors” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger In a recent interview with the Times Union, Nicole Ricciardi, director of Shakespeare & Company’s current production of Creditors, describes the play…
REVIEW: “Richard II” at Walking the dog Theater
by Barbara Waldinger How is it possible for a local theatre, performing in a school with a cast of seventeen, including a small group of…
REVIEW: “A Doll’s House, Part 2”
by Barbara Waldinger Henrik Ibsen is a tough act to follow. At the end of his 1879 masterpiece, A Doll’s House, audiences gasped as Nora…
REVIEW: “Macbeth” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger Imagine a production of Macbeth without the witches. No “When shall we three meet again?” No “Double, double toil and trouble: Fire,…
REVIEW: “Hair” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Roseann Cane I was just shy of 15 when Hair opened off-Broadway and began to cause a stir in 1967, a pivotal time in…
REVIEW: “Mamma Mia!” at the Mac-Haydn
by Barbara Waldinger The local go-to venue for big, splashy summer musicals is usually Chatham’s Mac-Haydn Theatre. The tiny stage is characteristically populated with dozens…