OPINION: Did the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Season Bring the Humor and Laughter We Craved?
by Jeannie Marlin Woods The 2025 Berkshire Theatre Season is beginning to wind down and the reflection on the season as a whole is beginning.…
REVIEW: “Escape to Margaritaville” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Escape to Margaritaville, featuring the music of the late Jimmy Buffett, had a brief run on Broadway in 2018. Bringing this musical…
REVIEW: “The Best Medicine” at Great Barrington Public Theater
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Great Barrington Public Theater, noted for producing new works, brings Robin Gerber’s one woman play, The Best Medicine to the stage. Gerber’s…
REVIEW: “Where the Mountain Meets the Sea” at the Ancram Center for the Arts
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Ancram Center For the Arts never disappoints. Where the Mountain Meets the Sea by Jeff Augustin is currently playing, featuring a Haitian…
REVIEW: “Guys and Dolls” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The classic, yet dated musical, Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on a story and characters…
REVIEW: “The Waiting” at Playhouse Stage Company
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss How rare it is to attend a brand-new musical by an unknown writer and composer and to feel captured by the very…
REVIEW: “The Elephant Man” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Have we made much progress in how we treat ‘the other?’ Do we struggle with learning and accepting the interior of a…
REVIEW: The Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY Presents “Eclipsed” at theREP
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Admittedly, I knew nothing about the Civil Wars in Liberia. In fact, I know nothing about Liberia in West Africa. Eclipsed by…