

MOTHERS AND SONS – Shakespeare & Company
When it premiered in 2014, some regarded Terence McNally’s “Mothers and Sons” as a melodramatic, even facile, chronicle of the...


WELL INTENTIONED WHITE PEOPLE - Barrington Stage Company
No matter how important a playwright’s theme, its drama requires the convergence of character and plot. Sadly that doesn’t occur in...


Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You - Berkshire Theatre Group, Stockbridge
Two very good reasons to see Christopher Durang's two, one act comedies double-billed as “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All To You"...


ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE – Sharon Playhouse.
You don’t have to really like country western music to really, really enjoy Sharon Playhouse’s “Always… Patsy Cline”, a glorious,...


THE ALIENS – Chester Theatre Company
With a director less sensitive than Daniel Elihu Kramer and a cast less skilled, Annie Baker’s "The Aliens" would not be the pitch...

DANGEROUS HOUSE – Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Nikos stage ends its season fulfilling its promise – and then some - to showcase the best of America’s...

GETTIN’ THE BAND BACK TOGETHER – Belasco Theatre
Decades ago when Manhattanites referred to a “bridge and tunnel crowd”, they simply meant commuters, but now they refer pejoratively to...


HOMEBODY - Ancram Opera House
With Tony Kushner’s HOMEBODY, Ancram Opera House evidenced, once again, it’s presenting the most unexpected and innovative summer theatre...

THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING - Williamstown Theatre Festival
Describing how her third husband could never measure up to her first, “he didn’t make me shiver” says Bernice, a middle-aged Negro...


HEAD OVER HEELS - Hudson Theatre
What do you get when you marry an Elizabethan romance with 1980’s American new wave pop songs? HEAD OVER HEELS, an exuberant, raucous...