by Emily Edelman In Karen Zacarías’ “The Book Club Play,” onstage at Dorset Theatre Festival through Saturday, July 26, a local book club has become the subject of a documentary film, with a camera set up in the home of journalist Ana and her corporate husband Rob to record the club’s meetings, discussions and other…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods Hope for the future is an ephemeral sensation—sometimes seeming like a broken scrap of wood in a stormy sea. That glimmer of hope is the connecting framework of SANCTUARY CITY, a captivating and intelligent production, now playing at TheaterWorks Hartford. Set in Newark, New Jersey, in…
TheaterWorks Hartford, under the leadership of Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, continues its 2023–2024 season with Sanctuary City by Pulitzer Prize-winner Martyna Majok. Co-Directed by theatermaker Jacob G. Padrón and filmmaker Pedro Bermúdez, this Obie Award-winning play, running March 28–April 25, 2024, asks audiences to consider…
by Emily Edelman Heidi Armbruster’s semi-autobiographical one-woman show “Scarecrow” opens with two well-meaning friends offering awkward advice to the main character on how to make funeral arrangements for her father, who is in the hospital dying of cancer. Based on the author’s own experience of living with her father for…
by Emily Edelman Dorset Theatre Festival has opened its 2022 season with a revival of the Frederick Knott thriller “Wait Until Dark.” The adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher moves the story from its original mid-‘60s setting into the 1940s, which gives the piece a delicious film-noir feel. The plot follows newlywed…
(Dorset, VT– JUNE 17, 2022) Dorset Theatre Festival will open the 45th Season of professional summer theatre at the Dorset Playhouse with a regional revival of the classic thriller, Wait Until Dark, directed by Jackson Gay. The preview performance is scheduled for Thursday, June 23 at 7:30 PM, and the…
