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…
REVIEW: “A Tender Thing” at Barrington Stage
by Barbara Waldinger How many actresses beyond their teenage years have bemoaned the fact that they will never get to play Juliet, never be cast…
REVIEW: “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
by Barbara Waldinger On April 9 th of this year a press release was sent out by the Dorset Theatre Festival announcing that Kristine Nielsen,…
REVIEW: “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Barbara Waldinger How does a director in 2024 attempt to update a 1938 Pulitzer-winning play–ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS by Robert E. Sherwood—so that it…
REVIEW: “Lunar Eclipse” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger A particular advantage of living in the Berkshires is the opportunity to witness gifted artists of all types creating the magic of…
REVIEW: “On Cedar Street” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Barbara Waldinger On Cedar Street is a musical based on Kent Haruf’s final novel, Our Souls at Night,a simple, bittersweet story about two lonely,…
REVIEW: “Faith Healer” at Barrington Stage
by Barbara Waldinger Of the twenty-four plays written by the great Irish dramatist Brian Friel (1929-2015), (probably best known in America for his multi-award winning…