by Barbara Waldinger For its first production of the 2018 season, Shakespeare & Company dispenses with kings, queens and wars, instead seeking a perfect marriage between the characters depicted onstage and the viewing audience. Although, alas, no perfect marriage exists for the three mature characters in Carey Crim’s Morning After…
(Lenox, MA) – Shakespeare & Company announces its 2018 season casting. Under the direction of Artistic Director Allyn Burrows the Company’s Summer Season includes a roster of audience beloved artists, critically acclaimed actors, and a host of newcomers joining the Company. The season opens Memorial Day Weekend with Carey Crim’s New England Premiere of Morning After…
(Lenox, MA) – Shakespeare & Company announces its 2018 summer season. Exploring themes of Delight, Deceit, and Desire, the season includes three Shakespeare plays: Macbeth, As You Like It, and Love’s Labor’s Lost; plus the New England Premiere of Morning After Grace by Carey Crim; Creditors by August Strindberg adapted by David Greig; Heisenberg by Laurence Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens; Mothers and Sons by Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally; and HIR by Pulitzer…
Working with only two actors, director Kristen van Ginhoven creates fascinating stage pictures, especially with the creative lighting design by Lily Fossner. Juliana Von Haubrich’s set is fittingly grimy and spare placing the play’s focus on the artist’s easel and paints.
Corinna May and John Woodson revolve slowly before you while their characters talk about life. An interesting, if mundane, play reviewed by Gail Burns.
The Wharton Salon and Pythagoras Theatre Works collaborated to present two delightful one act plays, superbly produced and acted at The Mount.
“In a thousand years man will sigh just the same, ‘Ah, how hard life is,’ and yet just as now he will be afraid of death and not want it.”– Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters, translated by Constance Garnett Ventfort Hall, as it is struggling to become fully refurbished and functional…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 Julie Jensen’s 2000 drama Two-Headed is not an easy play. It is not easy to perform and it is not easy to watch, but luckily the BTF has cast two of this region’s finest actresses – Corinna May and Diane Prusha – and the end…
