REVIEW: “Three Tall Persian Women” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger Shakespeare & Company’s fall play, THREE TALL PERSIAN WOMEN, a world premiere by Awni Abdi-Bahri (who also plays Golnar, the youngest of…
REVIEW: “La Musica Deuxieme” and the Downtown Upstate Festival at the Ancram Center for the Arts
by Macey Levin The first annual Downtown Upstate festival brings the best of NYC downtown theatre artists to the Hudson Valley, featuring three different shows…
REVIEW: “The Fantasticks” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Barbara Waldinger Premiering on May 3, 1960 at the compact Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village, NYC, THE FANTASTICKS ran there for forty-two years: …
REVIEW: “Maggie” at Goodspeed Musicals
by Mark G. Auerbach Special to Berkshire on Stage Maggie, a new musical, has its American Premiere at Goodspeed Musicals this fall season. It’s a…
REVIEW: “Steel Magnolias” at the Sharon Playhouse
by Macey Levin Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling was originally seen off-Broadway in 1987 and made into a film in 1989. It has sustained its…
REVIEW: “True Art” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
by Emily Edelman In Dorset Theatre Festival’s world premiere production of “True Art” by Jessica Provenz, museum art curator Jodi Dean acquires a world-famous work of…
REVIEW: “Faust” at the Berkshire Opera Festival
by Barbara Waldinger Charles Gounod’s FAUST, currently playing at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, is the Berkshire Opera Festival’s first foray (now in its ninth…
REVIEW: “Big Big Sky” at Chester Theatre Company
by Macey Levin Into Kilnsea, a small village in northern England, a stranger enters the local cafe and changes life for four lost souls. The…