REVIEW: “Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer” at the Chester Theatre Company
by Jeannie Marlin Woods “Nobody is free until everybody is free.” So declared Black activist Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper’s daughter with a 6th grade…
REVIEW: “Fireflies” at Shakespeare & Company
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss I knew I had to see and review Fireflies by Matthew Barber at Shakespeare & Company. My husband just published his novel,…
REVIEW: “The Piano Lesson” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger On January 27, 1997, August Wilson (playwright) debated Robert Brustein (director, critic, professor) in New York’s Town Hall about race in the…
REVIEW: “Madame Mozart: The Lacrimosa” at Great Barrington Public Theater
by Barbara Waldinger One of the most important missions of the Great Barrington Public Theater is: “to develop and produce new plays, with a focus…
REVIEW: “Magdalene” at the Chester Theatre Company
by Macey Levin Mark St. Germain. a prolific local playwright, is known for “Freud’s Last Session,” which was filmed starring Anthony Hopkins, and “Becoming Dr.…
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…
REVIEW: “Unreconciled” at the Chester Theatre Company
by Macey Levin Jay Sefton delivers a riveting performance in the powerful play Unreconciled at Chester Theatre Company. In his play, co-written with Mark Basquill,…
Chester Theatre Company Presents World Premiere of “Unreconciled”
Chester Theatre Company presents Unreconciled (World Premiere) July 4–14 Written by Jay Sefton and Mark Basquill Directed by James Barry Starring Jay Sefton Scenery and projections…