This writer loathes the promiscuous use of superlatives by theatre reviewers, but I’ll just declare - Barrington Stage Company’s new production of AIN’T MISBEHAVIN' is one of the best musicals I have ever seen - Broadway or Off-, West End, anywhere. With flawless staging and performances, the revival, choreographed and directed by Jeffrey L. Page, not only restores the legacy of Black jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller (1903 -1943) but also transcends its musical revue

The summer Berkshire theater season has already seen a highpoint with the premiere of THE SHOT, an impressive playwriting debut for author Robin Gerber and stellar solo performance by actor Sharon Lawrence (best known for her TV work, like "Grey’s Anatomy"). Lawrence plays Katharine Graham (née Meyer), owner and publisher of the Washington Post, who has been the subject already of many biographies and films. Gerber’s parallax on Graham’s story is specific- the abuse she su

With comic antecedents ranging from Chaucer to Monty Python, rollicking on Hartford Stage is the raucous, bawdy, irreverent new musical KISS MY AZTEC!. Part farce, part satire, it’s more than a revisionist spoof on Latin American history. It’s the most unwoke, woke theater around, both confronting all kinds of cultural tropes and, at the same time, with self-deprecating rawness, lampooning every social identity; no one gets spared. What’s more, the show celebrates the best o