by Jess Hoffman I have said previously in writing for Berkshire On Stage that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is my all-time favorite play. Whenever I see it produced I go into the show with high hopes and high expectations. I’ll admit I had some trepidation going into The Rooted Voyageurs‘…
by Shera Cohen Special to Berkshire on Stage Bravo to CT local, yet nation-wide, prolific playwright-extraordinaire Jacques LaMarre for yet another off-beat humorous play. LaMarre has a skill that tickles his audiences with consistent and often risqué chuckles; not belly-laughs, and that is exactly what he is going for. “The…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss How rare it is to attend a brand-new musical by an unknown writer and composer and to feel captured by the very first number. That was my experience seeing The Waiting, A New Musical still in process, produced by Playhouse Stage Company at the Cohoes Music Hall,…
by Emily Edelman In the world premiere of Maggie Kearnan’s “How to Not Save the World With Mr. Bezos” presented by Great Barrington Public Theater, an alternate reality in which it is illegal to be a billionaire sees journalist Cherry Beaumont interviewing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos about his motivations for wealth.…
by Barbara Waldinger “Stop talking,” says Nancy Pelosi to the newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom she has invited to her office. But discussion is the point of this seventy-seven minute intermission-less series of confrontations between the two women from 2018-2022, currently playing at Barrington Stage Company’s St. Germain Stage.…
by Sierra Pasquale In At the Wedding, playwright Bryna Turner threads heartache through hilarity with surgical precision, crafting a one-act triumph that dances between raw vulnerability and razor-sharp wit. The latest staging of this bittersweet gem, coproduced by Harbinger Theatre and the Sand Lake Center for the Arts, is a…
by R. E. Smith, Special to Berkshire on Stage How can something so high-tech be so charming? How can something one Bushnell audience member at intermission called “so meta” still feel so sincere? Probably because, like the plot which bounces 30 years back and forth in time, it embraces the…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss A perfect title for this musical revue, A Grand Night for Singing at the Mac-Haydn Theatre bathes the audience in the glorious tunes of Richard Rodgers and memorable lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II. From Oklahoma in 1943, to The Sound of Music in 1959, Rodgers & Hammerstein…
