2024 Berkshire Theatre Critics Award Winners Announced

The 2024 Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, aka The Berkies, were presented on Monday, November 11 in the Zion Lutheran Church Community Room, on First Street in Pittsfield MA. Presenters included J. Peter Bergman, Paul Sugarman, Mark G. Auerbach, and Berkshire on Stage critics Macey G. Levin, Barbara Waldinger, and Paula…

REVIEW: “The Prom” at the Sharon Playhouse

by Macey Levin Connecticut’s Sharon Playhouse once more “Zazzes” up the 2024 summer season with a musical that   makes the audience laugh, cheer and tear up.  The Prom, with a book by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin, music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Beguelin,  is a  hilarious romp about arrogance,…

Sharon Playhouse Presents “The Prom”

The Sharon Playhouse, the historic arts and entertainment venue in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut, continuing its tradition of pairing extraordinary talent from Broadway, television, and film with talented local theater artists from the region and beyond, proudly announces casting for The Prom. Tickets are now on sale (https://www.sharonplayhouse.org/theprom). “We’re…

REVIEW: “Rock of Ages” at the Sharon Playhouse

by Macey Levin Sharon Playhouse, Sharon, Connecticut blasts into the 2024 summer season with the ever rollicking paean to the MTV years, Rock of Ages. Written by Chris D’Arienzo, the show ran for six years in the early 2000’s on Broadway and continues its crowd pleasing evocation of the 1980’s…

Sharon Playhouse Announces Casting for “Season of Joy”

Kate Baldwin, Jen Cody, Danny Drewes, Hayley Podshun, John Scherer, and More To Appear The Sharon Playhouse, the historic arts and entertainment venue in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut, continuing its tradition of pairing extraordinary talent from Broadway, television, and film with talented local theater artists from the region and…

REVIEW: “Something Rotten” at the Sharon Playhouse

by Macey Levin There is a rollicking production of a witty and very corny show with exuberant musical numbers at the Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, Connecticut. Something Rotten!, book by Karley Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell with music and lyrics by Karley and Wayne Kirkpatrick, takes place in London, 1595, when…

Sharon Playhouse Opens 2023 Season with “Something Rotten”

Sharon Playhouse, the arts and entertainment venue in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut, continuing its tradition of pairing extraordinary talent from Broadway, television, and film with talented local actors from the the community of Northwest Connecticut and beyond, is delighted to present the Playhouse premiere of the hilarious musical comedy…