by Lisa Jarisch This confession may very well get me drummed out of the musical theater corps of critics and aficionados alike, but in all fairness, it has to be said. I do not like Sondheim. I have never liked Sondheim. I KNOW Sondheim will never make it to my…

(June 6, 2023–Chatham, NY) The Mac-Haydn Theatre’s 55th summer season opens with the six time Tony-winning musical, “West Side Story,” running June 13 through June 23.  Often regarded as the greatest love story of all time, this landmark Broadway musical returns to the Mac-Haydn. With a powerful, poignant book, and…

by Macey Levin [EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to a combination of a recent illness and the extreme heat on the date he attended, Mr. Levin was only able to see the first act. His many years in the theatre and familiarity with this classic work enable him to write knowledgeably about…

(July 14, 2022–Chatham, NY) The Cole Porter classic “Kiss Me, Kate” comes in hot as it makes its grand return to the Mac-Haydn Theatre for the first time in a decade. The sophisticated, romantic and delightfully hilarious Broadway classic that earned the very first Tony award for Best Musical, “Kiss Me,…

by Lisa Jarisch Surely there is no better cure for melancholy that approaches as the curtain descends on the summer theater season than a healthy dose of rambunctious orphans, a rags to riches story, a guaranteed happy ending…AND a dog.  The Mac-Haydn Theatre fills the prescription to a “T”…or in this…