A leading lady’s, sparkling star-turn and good old-fashioned show-biz tap dance make Sharon Playhouse’s ANYTHING GOES, chock-a-block with wonderful songs by the great American songmaster Cole Porter, irresistible fun. First staged in 1934 with the incomparable Ethel Merman as evangelist turned cabaret singer Reno Sweeney, Sharon presents the version of the book written for the successful 1987 Lincoln Center revival starring Patti Lupone. At the Sharon Playhouse, the song-

There’s a love letter to the American musical comedy, postmarked Pittsfield first class delivery, addressed to Broadway. Barrington Stage Company’s THE ROYAL FAMILY OF BROADWAY combines a powerhouse of creative talent and a large, top-drawer cast in an impressive, delightfully entertaining world premiere, the best original musical staged in the Berkshires theater scene yet. Start with a good, old-fashioned comedy by playwright and humorist George S. Kaufman and author Edna F

Spectacle supersedes Shaw in Lincoln Center’s overscaled revival of Lerner & Lowe’s MY FAIR LADY. Still, Loewe’s marvelous score and Learner’s ageless lyrics prevail. With the beloved musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s well-known PYGMALION tale of the common, Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and the elitist, phonetics professor Henry Higgins, director Bartlett Sher seeks again at Lincoln Center to create both an expansive production of a musical theater classic an

A glorious score by Richard Rogers and a superbly sung, groundbreaking male lead performance can’t quite make the current revival of CAROUSEL at the Imperial Theatre the most memorable. Still, the tragic love story of the restless, bad-boy carnival barker Billy Bigelow (Joshua Henry, last seen in VIOLET and THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS) and loner, factory girl Julie Jordon (Tony winner Jessie Mueller for BEAUTIFUL) falling in love in a Maine seacoast town at the turn of the 19thC eme