by Shera Cohen, In the Spotlight, Inc. This season’s Majestic Theater offerings commonly bookend its schedule with musicals, and 2025/26 continues that tradition. Sweet, homespun, and slice of life topics take place in slots #2 and #4. Smack in the middle, at #3, is the comedy – not just any…
Holiday greetings from all of us at Berkshire on Stage! This is your Webmaster (Webmistress??), Gail M. Burns (and my dog, Sylvie). I asked my excellent team of theatre critics to write a little something about their favorite experiences of 2025. I gave them no instructions as to length or…
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 Shera Cohen The musical “Anastasia” returns to Connecticut, to the Opera House Players, after its premier at Hartford Stage some years ago, then onto Broadway. The story of Anastasia, daughter of the Romanov family of early 20th-century Russia during the Russian Revolution, is absorbing, emotional, and somewhat true. The…
Shera Cohen is the Webmaster of In the Spotlight, Inc., a site which covers performing arts events in the Connecticut River Valley communities in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Berkshire on Stage is now collaborating with Shera to expand our reach and bring you more information on theatre to the east of…
by Shera Cohen, Special to Berkshire on Stage An ideal play to commence Hartford Stage’s 2024/25 season coinciding with Halloween is “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,” Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic. It is doubtful that no one in the audience was ignorant of the tale of a…
