REVIEW: “On Cedar Street” at the Berkshire Theatre Group

by Barbara Waldinger On Cedar Street is a musical based on Kent Haruf’s final novel, Our Souls at Night,a simple, bittersweet story about two lonely, damaged, widowed neighbors, Addie Moore and Louis Waters, who have discovered through each other a second chance at connection, companionship, and even love.  In the…

Berkshire Theatre Group Announces Casting for the World Premiere Musical “On Cedar Street”

A joyful and inspiring story of second chances when two people come together to wrestle with the events of their lives. At The Unicorn TheatreOn Cedar StreetA World Premiere Musicalbook by Emily Mannmusic by Lucy Simon & Carmel Deanlyrics by Susan Birkenheadadapted from the novel Our Souls at Night by Kent…

REVIEW: “Rock and Roll Man: The Alan Freed Story” at Berkshire Theatre Group

by Barbara Waldinger Is it possible to have too much of a good thing?  Berkshire Theatre Group’s production of Rock and Roll Man:  The Alan Freed Story is an enormous undertaking, featuring nineteen cast members, forty-five songs, a revolving stage and multiple projections.  Trotting out dozens of 1950s classics and…

REVIEW: “Mothers and Sons” at Shakespeare & Company

by Roseann Cane “There is nothing permanent except change.”  –Heraclitus As the lights come up we see two people, a mature woman wrapped in a mink and a handsome man on the outskirts of middle age, peering into the distance. They stand parallel, about a couple of yards apart, in…

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