REVIEW: Mettawee River Theatre Company Presents “Communications from a Cockroach: archy and the Underside”

What a grand experience!  Sitting on the lovely lawn of the Park-McCullough House with the (real) fireflies dancing about and the (real) bats swooping gleefully overhead watching the (fake) cockroach and (fake) cricket and (fake) alley cat perform…  What?  This sounds a tad bizarre to you?  Well, I grant you…

PREVIEW: Shakespeare & Young Company 1999

by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and live”– William Shakespeare, “King Richard II Talk about the bug biting! In 1990 Mark Scipione was a student at Taconic High School in Pittsfield who took part in one Shakespeare & Company production and started down…