OLLI Players Present Staged Reading of “It Can’t Happen Here”

Barbara Waldinger, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Theatre, Director, and Theatre Critic, is helming the OLLI Players’ staged reading of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here (a 1930s novel and play adapted in 2017 by Tony Taccone and Bennett S. Cohen). Theperformance, scheduled for Sunday afternoon, April 19 th , at…

Big Table Productions Hosts a Reading of “It Can’t Happen Here”

Lenox, Mass.– Big Table Productions is excited to host a Fundraiser For Good: A reading of It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis on Friday April 17 at 8 p.m., at the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.  As a novel written in 1936, the 2016…

A Fundraiser For Good: A Reading of “It Can’t Happen Here”

Big Table Productions hosts A Fundraiser For Good: A reading of It Can’t Happen Here April 17, 2026 8PM Lenox, Mass. (March 19, 2026) – Big Table Productions is excited to host a Fundraiser For Good: A reading of It Can’t Happen Here on Friday April 17th, 2026 at 8pm…

REVIEW: “Out of Character” at the Berkshire Theatre Group

by Barbara Waldinger Ari’el Stachel, playwright and solo performer in his one-man show at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn, describes his motivation for writing this script: “When I started writing OUT OF CHARACTER six years ago, I had no idea where it would lead.  All I knew was this:  as a…

Berkshire Theatre Group Announces “Out of Character” Opening at The Unicorn

Pittsfield, MA – Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Artistic Director, CEO Kate Maguire are thrilled to announce the company for the upcoming production of Out of Character, the deeply personal and profoundly moving solo play written and performed by Tony Award winner Ari’el Stachel. Directed by the acclaimed Tony Taccone,…