by Emily Edelman Berkshire on Stage highly recommends the CapDist Theater Events page! In “The Wedding Singer,” currently onstage at the Warner Theatre, a wedding singer and a waitress work together at an events venue, are engaged to different people, and fall in love with each other while flanked by a…
by Emily Edelman Peter Shaffer’s farce “Black Comedy,” onstage at the Ghent Playhouse, centers around an aspiring sculptor intent on impressing an art buyer who has arranged a visit to his apartment to view his work. Just before the buyer’s arrival, however, an electrical fuse blows causing a blackout. In this…
by Emily Edelman In Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play” at the Ghent Playhouse, four well-meaning people attempt to devise a historically accurate play for elementary school students about the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday while dealing with complications such as a disgruntled school board, conflicting interpersonal relationships, and the complete absence…
by Emily Edelman Living Room Theatre’s “Get It Right” is written and directed by LRT co-founder Randolyn Zinn and is the story of a New York City playwright who rewrites a screenplay for the comeback movie of a washed-up Hollywood star. The story is engaging, with a definite sense of…
by Emily Edelman In Karen Zacarías’ “The Book Club Play,” onstage at Dorset Theatre Festival through Saturday, July 26, a local book club has become the subject of a documentary film, with a camera set up in the home of journalist Ana and her corporate husband Rob to record the club’s meetings, discussions and other…
by Emily Edelman Lena Kaminsky’s play “Salvage” at Dorset Theatre Festival is set at a small-town transfer station, and uses the actions of sorting through trash and unwanted personal items as a metaphor for reclaiming and repairing the pieces of broken lives. Each of the play’s three main characters has…
by Emily Edelman In the world premiere of Maggie Kearnan’s “How to Not Save the World With Mr. Bezos” presented by Great Barrington Public Theater, an alternate reality in which it is illegal to be a billionaire sees journalist Cherry Beaumont interviewing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos about his motivations for wealth.…
by Emily Edelman February 14-16 performances POSTPONED Though Ghent Playhouse’s presentation of Ken Ludwig’s “Lend Me a Tenor” runs for just two weeks and six performances, it has already sold out several of those performances and it’s easy to see why: Ludwig’s very funny and fast-paced farce gets an uplift from…
