by Macey Levin When entering the Sharon Playhouse to see Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 classic A Raisin in the Sun the audience is guided to stairs leading up to the stage. Seating is on four bleachers toward the rear of the stage and the set occupies the rest of the playing…
by Macey Levin Anyone who has been or is a caretaker for a victim of dementia knows the emotional turmoil it causes. What seems to start as a simple element of aging grows into a life-changing responsibility. One’s personal time no longer exists. Quietude no longer exists. In some cases…
THE WRITERS PLAYGROUND SEPTEMBER 16 & 17 AT 7PMIN THE BOBBIE OLSEN THEATER AT THE SHARON PLAYHOUSEADMISSION IS FREE Our festival of new 10-minute plays provides an opportunity to showcase local writers, directors, and performers, bringing our community members together through live theatre. This year’s plays include: Crashed by Darcy Boynton…
by Macey Levin On a recent Thursday evening hundreds of people in Sharon, Connecticut suffered from a similar malady. Their sides were aching from the non-stop laughter at Sharon Playhouse’s hoot of a show Shear Madness. There is very little time to catch one’s breath with a host of sterling…
by Macey Levin One of the first plays of the Theatre of the Absurd was Jean Genet’s “The Maids” in 1947 which was followed by Eugene Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano” in 1950. This is a theatrical form that alludes to the absurdity of existence in a grotesque world by a…
by Macey Levin Bram Stoker wrote his four-hundred-plus page novel Dracula in 1897. The world’s best-known vampire story has changed considerably on its way to becoming the play that is now in production at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Hamilton Deane, a British playwright, was the first…
by Macey Levin The intimate Ancram Opera House in Ancram, New York, is producing “Invasion!” by Jonas Hassen Khemiri and translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles, a play that delivers a barrage of themes, witty dialogue, questions and challenges. A talented and vibrant cast of four (Ali Andre Ali, Abuzar Farrukh, Sophie…
by Macey Levin Pass Over is a difficult but intriguing play receiving a dynamic production at Chester Theatre Company in Chester, Massachusetts. There are comic moments, emotional confrontations and times of darkness. It is also rife with various symbols and references. The play is a depiction of America’s black minority…
