REVIEW: “Forgiveness” at Barrington Stage Company
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss As a theater critic I am aware that an entire audience watching the same show can result in an audience-size number of…
REVIEW: “All Shook Up” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss I have never been inspired by Elvis Presley nor attracted to his music. However, the outstanding cast of the Mac-Haydn Theatre shakes…
REVIEW: “Night at the Speakeasy” at Great Barrington Public Theater
by Emily Edelman Immediately upon entering Bard College at Simon’s Rock’s McConnell Theater for Great Barrington Public Theater’s “Night at the Speakeasy,” one is met…
REVIEW: “Pipe Dream” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss We are all familiar with the iconic musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstein. We have seen them on the stage and screen, and…
REVIEW: “Pamela Palmer” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Emily Edelman In the first scene of the world premiere of “Pamela Palmer” by David Ives at Williamstown Theatre Festival, the title character has…
REVIEW: “The Islanders” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger “Did you know that loneliness is as lethal as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day?” Spoken by a character named Anna in the…
REVIEW: “Poor Herman” at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead (Berkshire County Historical Society)
by Jess Hoffman  I have a love of literature and an unshakable interest in the complex and problematic people who create it. Chaucer, Poe, Fitzgerald,…
REVIEW: “Will Sacrifice” at the Chester Theatre Company
by Macey Levin  Chester Theatre Company, Chester, Massachusetts, has built a reputation of producing provocative plays. Their most recent production of Unreconciled, workshopped and given…