REVIEW: “A New Brain” at Barrington Stage
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss A New Brain, by William Finn, is receiving a new life at Barrington Stage in a collaboration with Williamstown Theatre Festival. What…
REVIEW: “Faith Healer” at Barrington Stage
by Barbara Waldinger Of the twenty-four plays written by the great Irish dramatist Brian Friel (1929-2015), (probably best known in America for his multi-award winning…
REVIEW: “Blues for an Alabama Sky” at Barrington Stage
by Macey Levin It is 1930 and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as the Depression, is in full bloom. The community is struggling to find…
REVIEW: “tiny father” at Barrington Stage Company
by Roseann Cane We first see Daniel (Andy Lucien), a 30-something event planner for a major bookstore chain, as he bursts into the NICU (Neonatal…
REVIEW: “The Happiest Man on Earth” at Barrington Stage
by Roseann Cane The Barrington Stage Company has opened their season with a play that’s a mesmerizing punch in the gut. I urge you to…
REVIEW: “All of Me” at Barrington Stage
by Roseann Cane With its world premiere production of All of Me, written by Laura Winters, Barrington Stage Company presents a romantic boy-meets-girl coming-of-age story…
REVIEW: “Measure for Measure” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, now being staged at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse, is known as a “problem play.” Neither tragedy…
REVIEW: “Waiting for Godot” at Barrington Stage
by Macey Levin One of the first plays of the Theatre of the Absurd was Jean Genet’s “The Maids” in 1947 which was followed by…