by Emily Edelman In Karen Zacarías’ “The Book Club Play,” onstage at Dorset Theatre Festival through Saturday, July 26, a local book club has become the subject of a documentary film, with a camera set up in the home of journalist Ana and her corporate husband Rob to record the club’s meetings, discussions and other…
by Barbara Waldinger One of the most important missions of the Great Barrington Public Theater is: “to develop and produce new plays, with a focus on playwrights and theater artists in the Berkshires.” True to form, the theater’s current production of MADAME MOZART, THE LACRIMOSA, was written, directed, performed, and…
by Macey Levin There is an extraordinary theatrical experience at Barrington Stage Company’s Saint Germain Stage. This world premiere, imaginatively written by Jeff Talbot, of a play entitled “fuzzy” (all lower case) stars a hand-puppet by that name. This is not a children’s play; rather, it is a small musical…
by Sierra Pasquale Having seen “A Bronx Tale” on Broadway where the towering presence of Nick Cordero as Sonny left a lasting impression, I wasn’t sure what to expect from another production, however, the Mac-Haydn Theatre’s 2025 production doesn’t just live up to the original, it finds new life, depth,…
by Jess Hoffman I have to admit I have no love for Rodgers and Hammerstein. I find their musicals boring and overly sentimental. My introduction to Rodgers and Hammerstein was, in fact, the 1955 film version of Oklahoma!, with which I was wholly unimpressed. That said, I am a big…
by Barbara Waldinger Ari’el Stachel, playwright and solo performer in his one-man show at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn, describes his motivation for writing this script: “When I started writing OUT OF CHARACTER six years ago, I had no idea where it would lead. All I knew was this: as a…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods The landscape of grief and loss can be a perilous territory in which to find oneself and those boundless emotions can plunge one into darkness and hopelessness. However, in Tatty Hennessy’s play, 100 WORDS FOR SNOW, that landscape becomes a place of wonder, beauty, and danger…
by Emily Edelman Lena Kaminsky’s play “Salvage” at Dorset Theatre Festival is set at a small-town transfer station, and uses the actions of sorting through trash and unwanted personal items as a metaphor for reclaiming and repairing the pieces of broken lives. Each of the play’s three main characters has…
