TheaterWorks Hartford, under the direction of Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, announces details for its upcoming World Premiere production of CIRCUS FIRE, which will be performed at the historic First Company Governor’s Foot Guard in Downtown Hartford. The production has already been extended due to increased demand, running from April 16 –…
by Mark G. Auerbach Special to Berkshire on Stage Wow! A powerhouse of a new play, from the pen of TV’s Lost co-creator Jeffrey Lieber, full of plot twists, tension, and edgy and funny dialogue. A stunning physical production, taut direction, and three brilliant performances make Fever Dreams (of Animals on The…
TheaterWorks Hartford, under the leadership of Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, is thrilled to announce details for its 2024-2025 season opener Fever Dreams (of animals on the verge of extinction). The New England Premiere of the explosive play from the mind of writer Jeffrey Lieber, co-creator of the hit television series Lost, is an unfolding mystery about the…
by Barbara Waldinger Gertrude and Claudius, Barrington Stage Company’s newest offering by Mark St. Germain, based on John Updike’s 2000 novel by the same name, might well have been called simply Gertrude, for this is her story. A prequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the play traces thirty years in the life…
by Barbara Waldinger Henrik Ibsen is a tough act to follow. At the end of his 1879 masterpiece, A Doll’s House, audiences gasped as Nora Helmer left her husband and three children, delivering what George Bernard Shaw famously called “the door slam heard around the world,” presumably never to return.…
