REVIEW: “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” at Bridge Street Theatre
by Macey Levin Terrence McNally is one of America’s foremost yet underrated playwrights. The Tony Award winning author of Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class…
A remarkably relevant “Camping With Henry and Tom” at Barrington Stage
Although about Edison, Ford and President Warren G. Harding, this play could have been written last night with lines from the past week’s newscasts.
Art, faith and forgery at the heart of WAM Theatre’s “Bakelite Masterpiece”
Working with only two actors, director Kristen van Ginhoven creates fascinating stage pictures, especially with the creative lighting design by Lily Fossner. Juliana Von Haubrich’s set is fittingly grimy and spare placing the play’s focus on the artist’s easel and paints.
“Sotto Voce” an ambitious choice for Shakespeare & Company
After a terrific season of beautifully acted provocative plays, Shakespeare & Co. ends their summer season on a different note.
“Tribes” at Barrington Stage: Intriguing, vivid, flawed, honest
Billy never learned to sign: his parents were against it. But into his life comes Sylvia, who is trying to learn as her hearing fades, and everything comes into question.
Australian play “And No More Shall We Part” debuts at Williamstown Festival
Tom Holloway’s deeply emotional play employs both sensitive direction and superb acting to draw its audience into the question of terminal illness and unassisted suicide.
In Williamstown: 20 years later, “An American Daughter” tackles issues still in the news
When a 20-year-old play still seems fresh today, one has to wonder if out current political scene has regressed as much as it has advanced. Wendy Wasserstein was prescient in her observation of misogynistic politics. Picture: Diane Davis and Saidah Arrika Ekulona. Photograph T. Charles Erickson.
Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat fill “Constellations” with depth and meaning
A cosmologist and a beekeeper exchange objective ideas, and infuse them with emotional resonance.