REVIEW: “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Jeannie Marlin-Woods If you have ever grown nostalgic when you hear a song sung by The Drifters or The Shirelles or The Righteous Brothers,…
REVIEW: “Advice” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
by Jeannie Marlin Woods The current summer offering at the inimitable Dorset Theatre Festival is ADVICE by playwright Brent Askari. This highly successful theatre organization…
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: “Driving Miss Daisy” at Barrington Stage Company
by Jeannie Marlin Woods DRIVING MISS DAISY is a little gem of a production now playing in Barrington Stage Company’s intimate St. Germain Theatre. Directed by…
The OLLI Players Present a Reading of “On The Verge”
On the Verge,or the Geography of Yearningby Eric Overmyer A Play Reading by the OLLI Playersunder the direction of Jeannie Marlin Woods Two shows! Saturday,…
REVIEW: “A Doll’s House, Part 2” at the Bennington Theater
by Jeannie Marlin Woods The Bennington Theater is a performing arts center formed in 2022 in the charming theatre space that was formerly the home…
Favorites of 2025: Jeannie Marlin Woods
Once again, the remarkable Berkshires theatre scene was replete with variety, excellence, and creativity. Writing in December, as I look back on a season that…
REVIEW: “Becky Nurse of Salem” at Capital Repertory Theatre
by Jeannie Marlin Woods As autumn fills the air, The Rep brings to the stage BECKY NURSE OF SALEM. This complex, helter-skelter play is a…