by Roseann Cane With its world premiere production of All of Me, written by Laura Winters, Barrington Stage Company presents a romantic boy-meets-girl coming-of-age story unlike any play I’ve ever seen, and, I believe, one that’s long overdue. You see, boy uses wheelchair, girl uses scooter, and both use text-to-speech…
by Roseann Cane To see a well-produced Stephen Sondheim musical is a delight. To see a magnificently crafted Sondheim musical is sublime, especially if that musical is A Little Night Music. In directing her final show as Barrington Stage Company Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd has created a resplendent, mesmerizing event,…
by Roseann Cane “So many plays in the HIV/AIDS theatrical canon are about white gay men and death and dying. I wanted to add something Black and gay and full of hope. we are continuous is my contribution.” –Harrison David Rivers The phenomenon is all too familiar. We all know…
by Roseann Cane If you love the theater, and you haven’t yet reserved a ticket for Anna in the Tropics, I’d urge you to do so posthaste. The play ends its run at the Barrington Stage Company on July 30, and I can’t imagine that there will be many seats…
by Roseann Cane Writing this review may prove to be among the most unpleasant tasks I’ve experienced in quite some time. The Most Happy Fella is one of my favorite musicals. I’m but one of many people who consider it Frank Loesser’s masterpiece. Unlike other musicals by Loesser (which include…
by Roseann Cane Spending time in Pittsfield’s historic Colonial Theatre is always a treat. Currently the venue for the Berkshire Theatre Group’s production of Once, the experience of soaking in the beautifully restored turn-of-the-20th-century theater is quirkily enhanced by an Irish pub alongside a stage transformed into the streets of…
by Roseann Cane In 1976, Andy Warhol was invited to a White House state dinner in honor of the Shah of Iran. Warhol chatted briefly with the Shah’s wife, Empress Farah Pahlavi, and soon after, he was invited to Tehran to create a portrait of her. Warhol was joined on…
by Roseann Cane The term “Boston Marriage” was likely derived from Henry James’s 1886 novel The Bostonians. In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, the term was used to describe a household where two unmarried women lived together, independent of men. Whether all such relationships were romantic and/or sexual…
