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 World Premiere production of Carey Crim’s play THE ISLANDERS, the line epitomizes the feelings of this middle-aged woman who has chosen to live alone on…
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 improbable situations.” For those, like this reviewer, who are not avid fans of slapstick comedians like the Marx brothers, Abbott and Costello, Harold Lloyd, Buster…
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 to recite that gorgeous poetry on a stage? No wonder Candy Buckley celebrates her role as Juliet in Barrington Stage’s U.S. Premiere of A TENDER…
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, a two-time Tony nominee (for VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE and for GARY: A SEQUEL TO TITUS ANDRONICUS) would be joining the 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 know feels real any longer—nothing that we depended on, nothing that we knew in our hearts to be true.” These are the words of Lee…
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 will speak to today’s audience? And why choose to take on this project when the play was turned into an Oscar-nominated film in 1940 (with…
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 Theater (27 Park Street, Adams MA) Fall Festival weekend, the reading will take place on Friday, October 6th at 4:00 p.m, followed by a talkback. …
by Barbara Waldinger A particular advantage of living in the Berkshires is the opportunity to witness gifted artists of all types creating the magic of live performance. On September seventeenth, Donald Margulies, considered to be one of America’s foremost living playwrights, was in attendance at the sold-out opening of his…
