by Barbara Waldinger The Shakespeare & Company production of Hymn by Lolita Chakrabarti feels like two actors and a director searching for a plot. Overstuffed with music, singing, dancing, boxing, changes of costume, set pieces and props (not to mention a ticking metronome) to help fill the 95 minutes, the…
by Barbara Waldinger Bravo to the Mac-Haydn Theatre for daring to produce Next to Normal as part of their busy summer season schedule! Imagine a musical about mental health alongside a lineup including A Chorus Line, Urinetown, Kiss Me Kate, The Full Monty, Xanadu and Forever Plaid. Undaunted, Artistic Director/Director…
by Barbara Waldinger It is said that “It Takes a Village” to successfully rear a child. The same may be said about what is required to mount a superior theatrical production. Great Barrington Public Theater’s Things I Know to Be True owes its triumph at the Daniel Arts Center to…
NEW LEBANON, NY—On July 30th, 2022, at The Theater Barn in New Lebanon, New York, HRC Showcase Theatre will present a staged reading of Touch the Moon, by Arianna Rose.  Based on a true story, the play dramatizes the mysterious disappearance of a college student during spring break in 1995.  Although The…
by Barbara Waldinger Shakespeare & Company’s production of A Walk in the Woods is a master class in Acting. Jonathan Epstein and Allyn Burrows play Andrey Botvinnik, a career Soviet negotiator, and John Honeyman, a younger American negotiator, respectively, as they attempt to craft a treaty over the course of…
HRC Showcase Theatre, performing this summer at The Theater Barn in New Lebanon, is seeking a young actress in her 20s to take part in a staged reading of TOUCH THE MOON by Arianna Rose. The play is based on the true story of a young woman who went on…
by Barbara Waldinger Every once in a while a production comes along in which all of its elements coalesce perfectly, creating a whole world in which you’d like to remain long after the lights dim. Kelly Galvin’s production of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare & Company is such a…
by Barbara Waldinger Barrington Stage Company’s ABCD is a slick World Premiere filled with a great deal of action but not much substance. The first-ever production of playwright May Treuhaft-Ali, its subject is the failure of an educational system that encourages cheating by both teachers and students. George…
