Easthampton, MA – This July, Passport Theatre Company presents a new take on Willy Russell’s classic comedy, Educating Rita. Starring Stephanie Carlson and Adrian Goldman, the production opens July 21 at 7:30 pm at The Blue Room, Old Town Hall, 43 Main St in Easthampton, with performances on July 22 and 23 at 7:30 pm and July 24 at…
New Lebanon, NY (MAY 10, 2022) — The Theater Barn is pleased to announce that their 38th season will open with the great American playwright and author, David Mamet. Boston Marriage is not a usual Mamet play with powerful ruthless male characters like in his 1992 film, Glengarry Glen Ross, or his play, American Buffalo, that…
New York City Theater Barn 2022 Season includes: Casting 3 Plays: BOSTON MARRIAGE by David Mamet; FIDDLERS THREE by Agatha Christie & SHIRLEY VALENTINE by Willy Russell Casting 3 Musicals: MURDER BALLAD; FOREVER PLAID; LITTLE SHOP of HORRORS ​ New York City Open Call Auditions at: 8th Avenue Studios – Ripley…
by Jeannie Marlin Wood SHIRLEY VALENTINE is a one-woman comedy performed with charm, sensitivity, and great warmth by Corinna May. This play by Willy Russell is now playing at the Berkshire Theatre Group‘s Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge and it brings us into the small, drab world of Shirley from the…
by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 “This is the transformative power of theatre, based on humanity’s ever-present need to tell personal stories of survival and enlightenment.” – Tina Packer This is not a review because neither the performance of “Shirley Valentine” starring Tina Packer that I did see at Shakespeare &…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2007 As I wander through the theatrical landscape, I am always on the look-out for interesting juxtapositions of plays, and I cannot believe that it is a coincidence that the Berkshire Theatre Festival is concluding its summer season with two plays that examine questions…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2005 Shirley Valentine Bradshaw, age 46, is a chatty soul. She talks to walls and rocks and mostly to you, the audience member, who happen to be privy to her innermost thoughts in this one-woman play by Willy Russell. In the course of two…
