REVIEW: “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” at Capital Repertory Theatre
by Roseann Cane If “Call me Ishmael” is the most famous opening sentence of an English-language novel, surely “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that…
REVIEW: “The Royale” at Capital Repertory Theatre
How do you depict a prize fight onstage without the boxers landing a single blow? In The Royale, playwright Marco Ramirez takes on this challenge,…
REVIEW: “Mothers and Sons” at Shakespeare & Company
by Roseann Cane “There is nothing permanent except change.”  –Heraclitus As the lights come up we see two people, a mature woman wrapped in a…
REVIEW: “Heisenberg” at Shakespeare & Company
by Roseann Cane In 1927 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg posited what is often referred to as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: it is not possible…
REVIEW: “Skeleton Crew” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
by Roseann Cane The only way to truly understand the impact of a crisis is to put a face on it, to humanize it, to…
REVIEW: “The Whipping Man” at Oldcastle
by Roseann Cane In the days following the end of the Civil War, a young Confederate soldier named Caleb (Justin Pietropaolo) painfully makes his way…
REVIEW: “Ring of Fire” at Capital Repertory Theatre
by Roseann Cane There are rare occasions when audience hooting, hollering, and foot-stomping add to the enjoyment of a night of theater, and Ring of Fire:…
REVIEW: “Hair” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Roseann Cane I was just shy of 15 when Hair opened off-Broadway and began to cause a stir in 1967, a pivotal time in…