REVIEW: “All Shook Up” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre

by Paula Kaplan-Reiss I have never been inspired by Elvis Presley nor attracted to his music. However, the outstanding cast of the Mac-Haydn Theatre shakes their hips, sings their hearts out and absolutely dazzles in All Shook Up. Opening on Broadway in 2005 and loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night,…

REVIEW: “The Bridges of Madison County” at the Ghent Playhouse

by Paula Kaplan-Reiss It’s a love story, which began as a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller in 1992, turned into a movie in 1995 starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, and adapted into a musical which premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2013 and moved to Broadway in…