REVIEW: “Suffs” at The Bushnell

by Beverly Dane, In The Spotlight, Inc. SUFFS at The Bushnell has an outstanding cast of 17 women playing a variety of roles that tell the 100-year-old history of women’s suffrage, from Carrie Chapman Catt, the successor to Susan B. Anthony, to the younger Alice Paul’s efforts to create the…

REVIEW: “Man of God” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

by Jeannie Marlin Woods MAN OF GOD by Anna Ouyang Moench, currently on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, is an astonishing theatrical adventure. With a burst of K-Pop music, the lights come up on a hotel room in Bangkok and four Korean-American teenagers in a super big…

REVIEW: “Dangerous House” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

by Barbara Waldinger South Africa is the ONLY African country where gay marriage is legal.  At the same time, the common South African practice of “corrective rape,”—purportedly intended to turn lesbians straight—goes unprosecuted. This is the background of the taut and powerful drama, Dangerous House by Jen Silverman, the fourth…