Favorites of 2025: Paula Kaplan-Reiss

After a fulfilling theater season of seeing close to 50 plays, musicals, and staged readings, I have walked away with some impressive highlights which have stayed with me. How fortunate to live in an area rich with gifted playwrights and talented performers, not to mention the able staff and crew…

Favorites of 2025: Jeannie Marlin Woods

Once again, the remarkable Berkshires theatre scene was replete with variety, excellence, and creativity. Writing in December, as I look back on a season that stretched from October 2024 to October 2025, there were successes and a few productions that were not yet ready for prime time. However, this reviewer…

REVIEW: “100 Words for Snow” at the Chester Theatre Company

by Jeannie Marlin Woods The landscape of grief and loss can be a perilous territory in which to find oneself and those boundless emotions can plunge one into darkness and hopelessness. However, in Tatty Hennessy’s play, 100 WORDS FOR SNOW, that landscape becomes a place of wonder, beauty, and danger…