REVIEW: “Mystic Pizza” at Capital Repertory Theatre
by Dan Mayer The film Mystic Pizza didn’t make a huge splash upon its release in 1988, but its popularity grew along with America’s enduring…
REVIEW: “The Understudy” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
by Gail M. Burns “When we did [The Understudy] in New York, I think I went to see it…three times a week because I found…
REVIEW: “Twelfth Night” at Shakespeare & Company
by Patrick White Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare’s merry romp of grief transformed, reversed course Tuesday night before it ever started. Shakespeare & Company’s summer comedy…
REVIEW: “Rebel Town” Presented by Rebel Town Productions LLC
by Emily Edelman “Rebel Town” is a new musical set against the backdrop of pre-Revolutionary War Boston and centers around carpenter William Grey, who is involved…
REVIEW: “Estate Sale” at Barrington Stage Company
by Barbara Waldinger You know this is going to be an unusual production when, instead of entering the auditorium of the St. Germain Stage to…
REVIEW: “Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer” at the Chester Theatre Company
by Jeannie Marlin Woods “Nobody is free until everybody is free.” So declared Black activist Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper’s daughter with a 6th grade…
REVIEW: “The Secret Garden” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The Secret Garden, Mac-Haydn’s third musical of the 2026 summer season is in full bloom. John Saunders beautifully directs this outstanding cast…
REVIEW: “Suddenly Last Summer” at Bard Summerscape
by Patrick White Suddenly Last Summer adapted from Tennessee Williams’ play as an opera with a ravishing score by Courtney Bryan, libretto by Gideon Lester and…