REVIEW: “Casse Noisette” at Bridge Street Theatre
by Barbara Waldinger Casse Noisette, French for Nutcracker and subtitled A Fairy Ballet, is Bridge Street Theatre’s current World Premiere offering. Given these clues, audience…
REVIEW: Callaloo Theatre Company Presents “Uncommon Women and Others”
by Barbara Waldinger Wendy Wasserstein, who passed away in 2006 at the age of 55, wrote several plays about college-educated women of her generation who…
REVIEW: “Naked” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Barbara Waldinger Many twenty-first century theatre audiences, who expect real life behavior onstage, much like reality TV, may not know how to react to…
REVIEW: “There Is A Happiness That Morning Is” at Bridge Street Theatre
by Barbara Waldinger Imagine a play about the poetry of William Blake, one of the most complex writers ever known, written in rhymed couplets (like…
REVIEW: “Well Intentioned White People” at Barrington Stage
by Barbara Waldinger The title explains it all. Â Rachel Lynett has written a powerful and controversial attack against white liberals who think they understand Black…
REVIEW: “Dangerous House” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Barbara Waldinger South Africa is the ONLY African country where gay marriage is legal. At the same time, the common South African practice of…
REVIEW: “Seared” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Barbara Waldinger Wilted spinach salad with warm bacon dressing; seared wild salmon with a Bengali onion chutney; seared asparagus with olive oil, salt and…
REVIEW” “Creditors” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger In a recent interview with the Times Union, Nicole Ricciardi, director of Shakespeare & Company’s current production of Creditors, describes the play…