REVIEW: “Anything Goes” at the Sharon Playhouse

by Macey Levin Cole Porter’s music has been part of the American Song Book since 1915 beginning with a little-known show Hands Up.  His breakthrough came in 1929 with Fifty Milllion Frenchmen but his place in the American Musical Theatre was guaranteed with Anything Goes in 1934 which brought stardom…

Hartford Stage Announces 2018-19 Season

Season features the World Premieres of Make Believe by Bess Wohl and The Engagement Party by Samuel Baum and productions of Shakespeare’s Henry V and Detroit ’67 by Dominique Morisseau The World Premiere of The Flamingo Kid, a new musical by Robert L. Freedman and Scott Frankel, directed by Darko Tresnjak, closes the season HARTFORD, CT — March 23, 2018 — Hartford…

REVIEW: “Rough Crossing” at Shakespeare & Company

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 “I never knew before how rotten a fellow could be outside his regular business…Every man is a foolishness when he’s out of his right place.” – Edgar Smith Writers, even great writers, have styles and forms at which they excel and others in…