Acting Class with Patrick White Offers Free Scene Night

*FREE Scene Night!* *Tuesday, 3/18**7pm**Albany Barn**56 2nd St**Albany, NY 12210* Scenes & monologues from students of Acting Class with Patrick White. New actors, new scenes and new ideas. Come see a great sampling of new and classic drama by Edward Albee, Jon Robin Baitz, Mike Bartlett, Jesse Eisenberg, Arthur Miller,…

Favorites of 2024: Mark G. Auerbach

Of the limited numbers of shows I saw, 2024 was the year of brilliant solo performances, particularly Felicia Curry in David Cade’s Sandra at TheaterWorks Hartford, and Jay Sefton in his and Mark Basquiill’s Unreconciled, which for me was the best new play of the year., 2024 was also the year that video and projections became a major…

REVIEW: “A Moon for the Misbegotten” at Schenectady Civic Players

by Jess Hoffman Eugene O’Neill is a love-him-or-hate-him sort of playwright. I have spoken to many local thespians who hate Eugene O’Neill, with his propensity toward long, verbose, depressing, and overly philosophical plays about the everyday lives of the downtrodden. I personally love Eugene O’Neill for his mastery of the…

Schenectady Civic Players Continue Season with “A Moon for the Misbegotten”

Schenectady Civic Players will continue their 97th season in November with the classic drama, A Moon for the Misbegottenby Eugene O’Neill, directed by Evan Jones. Performance dates are Friday–Sunday (November 15-17) and Wednesday–Sunday (November 20-24). Friday and Saturday curtains are at 8 pm, Wednesday and Thursday curtains are at 7:30 pm, and Sundays…

REVIEW: “Moon for the Misbegotten” at the Majestic Theater

by Mark G. Auerbach Special to Berkshire on Stage Eugene O’Neill is one of the 20th century’s most important American playwrights, but his intense, brooding dramas aren’t performed as often as they should be. Hartford Stage produced his only comedy, Ah, Wilderness a couple of seasons ago, but O’Neill isn’t often seen…

Majestic Theater Presents Eugene O’Neill’s “A Moon for the Misbegotten”

West Springfield, MA (10/8/24) – West Springfield’s Majestic Theater will present A Moon for the Misbegotten, Eugene O’Neill’s final and most personal play, onstage October 24 through December 1.  Set on a dilapidated Connecticut farm, the play focuses on Josie, a woman commanding and tough outside, sensuous and sensitive inside and Jamie…

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck Announces Auditions for “The Iceman Cometh”

“The Iceman Cometh” by Eugene O’Neill Directed by Donna Betts The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, NY, Audition Dates:Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 1pmSunday, August 13, 2023 at 7pm Callbacks: Monday, August 14, 2023 at 7pm CENTERstage Productions presents The Iceman Cometh, a play written…

REVIEW: “Thirst” at the Dorset Theatre Festival

by Barbara Waldinger “Set during Eugene O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night, failure, denial and passion roil as two Irish servants and an American chauffeur pass the day in the kitchen of the Tyrone family’s residence in 1912.” (Publicity blurb: Dorset Theatre Festival’s production of Thirst by Ronán Noone). …