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 As the world probably knows, 2018 would have been Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, also that of Jerome Robbins. Bernstein was a musical genius as a conductor, music educator on television and a composer of classical music, ballets, and broadway musicals. In our part of the world Barrington…
by Fred Baumgarten The best way to appreciate Leonard Bernstein’s 1983 opera, A Quiet Place, is through the music. At Tanglewood last week, this infrequently performed work was given a spirited defense by the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and Vocal Fellows under the baton of Stefan Asbury, in a 2013 version…
by Jenny Hansell There was a moment at the beginning of the Barrington Stage Company production of West Side Story where Riff, the leader of the Jets gang, takes two short steps and then sort of lifts off – his bent leg rising to the side, his shoulders in a shrug.…
(Pittsfield, MA– January 11, 2018) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in the Berkshires (Pittsfield, MA) under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, announced today its 2018 season, which will feature three world premieres, including a major new musical from Tony Awards winners William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin,…
Yes, it happened, from Barrington Stage to the biggest theatre on Broadway, and I am just one of the many critics from NY to LA who are applauding iits success. Click to read the review with more commentary.
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 This is NOT the best of all possible Candides. If all of my colleagues have also led with this all-too-obvious remark, I apologize, but I make it a policy not to read any other reviews before I write my own, and this is the…
