REVIEW: “Flight of the Monarch” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger Since the Covid pandemic, theatres have been struggling financially to make up for the huge losses they suffered when they were forced…
REVIEW: “The Islanders” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger “Did you know that loneliness is as lethal as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day?” Spoken by a character named Anna in the…
REVIEW: “Boeing, Boeing” at Barrington Stage Company
by Barbara Waldinger Oxford Languages’ English dictionary defines farce as “a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay, and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously…
REVIEW: “A Tender Thing” at Barrington Stage
by Barbara Waldinger How many actresses beyond their teenage years have bemoaned the fact that they will never get to play Juliet, never be cast…
REVIEW: “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
by Barbara Waldinger On April 9 th of this year a press release was sent out by the Dorset Theatre Festival announcing that Kristine Nielsen,…
REVIEW: “A Body of Water” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger “This is a play about trauma in all its forms. It’s about those moments in life when nothing that we think we…
REVIEW: “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Barbara Waldinger How does a director in 2024 attempt to update a 1938 Pulitzer-winning play–ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS by Robert E. Sherwood—so that it…
Staged Reading of “United States v. Susan B. Anthony” October 6
Announcing a staged reading of “United States v. Susan B. Anthony,” a play by Jesse Waldinger, directed by Barbara Waldinger.  Part of the newly-renovated Adams…