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…
West Springfield, MA (12/21/25) – West Springfield’s Majestic Theater will present The Hound of the Baskervilles January 8 through February 15. Written by Stephen Canny and John Nicholson, the play is a fast-paced, hilarious parody of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes mystery. The plot involves legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and…
Play Incubation Collective presentsThe Transformation, by Jem O’HaraSunday, March 2 at 7:30 PMThe Workroom, 33 Hawley Street, Northampton Synopsis: Iris and Morpheus dream of ascending the celestial hierarchy, and may have found just the way to do it. The Man grieves the loss of his brother and niece as war threatens…
The 2024 Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, aka The Berkies, were presented on Monday, November 11 in the Zion Lutheran Church Community Room, on First Street in Pittsfield MA. Presenters included J. Peter Bergman, Paul Sugarman, Mark G. Auerbach, and Berkshire on Stage critics Macey G. Levin, Barbara Waldinger, and Paula…
by Macey Levin Into Kilnsea, a small village in northern England, a stranger enters the local cafe and changes life for four lost souls. The opening of Big Big Sky by Tom Wells at Chester Theatre Company, Chester, Massachusetts, may sound familiar as a story-telling device as it evolves into…
by Mark G. Auerbach (This review originally appeared in Westfield News. Used with the author’s permission.) There are three heroes onstage in Chester Theatre’s 35th season finale, the American Premiere of Tom Wells’ Big Big Sky. First hero is Joel Ripka, an actor with multiple Chester credits, who stepped in at…
Chester, MA – Co-Producing Artistic Directors James Barry and Tara Franklin are pleased to announce the full casting for Chester Theatre Company’s 2024 season, the second under their direction, and the 35th for CTC. Barry and Franklin are proud to celebrate this milestone season with the extraordinary artists and audiences that make Chester Theatre Company so special. “Welcoming…
A suspense-filled new play Lenox, MA (March 19, 2024) – The 15th Anniversary Season of WAM Theatre continues with a Fresh Takes Play Reading of Far, Far Better Things written by Geetha Reddy (Mahābhārata, Hela with Lauren Gunderson) and directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo (Pride and Prejudice at Hartford Stage; La Broa’ [Broad Street] at Trinity Repertory Company) on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 2pm…
