Full Casting Announced for the National Tour of “Parade” Launching at Proctors

Book by two-time Tony Award® winner, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Academy Award® winner Alfred Uhry Music & Lyrics by three-time Tony Award® winner Jason Robert Brown Co-Conceived by 21-Time Tony Award®-winning legend Harold Prince Directed by Tony Award® winner Michael Arden New York, NY (December 7, 2024) – The producers of the acclaimed Broadway revival of Parade, winner…

Shakespeare & Company Announces Cast for “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley”

Jane Austen-inspired, Costumed Reading will be Staged December 16 through 18 LENOX, Mass. – Casting has been announced for Shakespeare & Company’s holiday reading of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, and directed by Ariel Bock. Four performances of this imagined sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and…

The Rooted Voyageurs Present “Twelfth Night” at Chatham Farmers & Makers Market

The Rooted Voyageurs present Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT at Chatham Farmers and Makers Market, Friday, August 12th at 5 pm in Crellin Park, 2940 Rt. 66, Chatham, NY. And it’s free! And it’s their final show of the summer! Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. The play centers around…

HRC Showcase Theatre Presents Reading of “Touch the Moon”

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 springbreak in 1995. Although The…

REVIEW: “Boston Marriage” at The Theater Barn

by Roseann Cane The term “Boston Marriage” was likely derived from Henry James’s 1886 novel The Bostonians. In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, the term was used to describe a household where two unmarried women lived together, independent of men. Whether all such relationships were romantic and/or sexual…

Viciously Humorous and Witty Comedy “Boston Marriage” Opens at The Theater Barn

Boston Marriage by David Mamet is set in the early 1900’s during the gilded age in a Bostonian drawing room. This devastatingly funny comedy tells the story of Anna and Claire, two bantering, scheming “women of fashion” who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become…

PREVIEW: “ALIEN/NATION” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

by Gail M. Burns In 2020 Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Mandy Greenfield attended “American Dream Study,” the Forest of Arden Company‘s site-specific performance in Columbia County, NY, and invited director Michael Arden to come to Williamstown and collaborate with the WTF’s Community Works program to produce something similar here.…

Williamstown Theatre Festival Presents “ALIEN/NATION” Immersive Theatrical Experience

Williamstown Theatre Festival (Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Director) presents ALIEN/NATION, the world premiere immersive theatrical experience in two parts from The Forest of Arden, written and devised by Eric Berryman, Jen Silverman, and the company of The Forest of Arden, and directed by two-time Tony Award® nominee Michael Arden. From Tony Award-nominated director Michael Arden and the company…