REVIEW: “Primary Trust” at Barrington Stage Company
by Barbara Waldinger Barrington Stage Company ends its 2024 summer fare with a dynamite production of Eboni Booth’s PRIMARY TRUST, this years’ Pulitzer Prize winner,…
Tickets on Sale for “Funny Girl” at Proctors
(Sept. 24) — FUNNY GIRL, the sensational musical comedy revival, is coming to Proctors in Schenectady for a limited one-week engagement from Tuesday, April 1-Sunday, April 6. Tickets…
REVIEW: “Three Tall Persian Women” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger Shakespeare & Company’s fall play, THREE TALL PERSIAN WOMEN, a world premiere by Awni Abdi-Bahri (who also plays Golnar, the youngest of…
REVIEW: “The Fantasticks” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Barbara Waldinger Premiering on May 3, 1960 at the compact Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village, NYC, THE FANTASTICKS ran there for forty-two years: …
REVIEW: “Faust” at the Berkshire Opera Festival
by Barbara Waldinger Charles Gounod’s FAUST, currently playing at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, is the Berkshire Opera Festival’s first foray (now in its ninth…
REVIEW: “Flight of the Monarch” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger Since the Covid pandemic, theatres have been struggling financially to make up for the huge losses they suffered when they were forced…
REVIEW: “The Islanders” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger “Did you know that loneliness is as lethal as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day?” Spoken by a character named Anna in the…
REVIEW: “Boeing, Boeing” at Barrington Stage Company
by Barbara Waldinger Oxford Languages’ English dictionary defines farce as “a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay, and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously…