REVIEW: “Rope” at Hartford Stage

by Jarice Hanson, Special to Berkshire on Stage The World Premiere of “Rope” at Hartford Stage is scintillatingly suspenseful and murderously macabre. It’s theatrically perfect. The theatre commissioned noted playwright, Jeffrey Hatcher, to adapt this version of a 1929 three-act play by Patrick Hamilton, called “Rope’s End”. Audiences may be…

REVIEW: Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” at Proctors

by Roseann Cane I am but one of many who consider To Kill a Mockingbird a favorite novel, and the 1962 film adaptation a favorite movie. Stage adaptations I’ve seen over the years have pretty much left me cold. Now the superb road company of Aaron Sorkin’s most recent, highly…