THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM is more an exhibition of acting craft and exhilarating lighting and set design than it is engaging drama.  More precisely, THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM is an exemplar in how acting technique and technical production elements can make an undistinguish...

"Sunday" applies a storytelling twist on the coming of age experience. Playwright Jack Thorne, Tony-winner for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” puts five millennials in a book club in a New York City walk-up apartment. The ball-busting Alice (Ruby Frankel) presides...

If what you know about “Cabaret” is informed by the classic 1972 movie which made Liza Minnelli a superstar, you owe yourself to see the Tony-winning musical stage version like the one at community-based Sherman Playhouse.  Director Bradford Blake, inspired by London’s...

It’s strange how some lines jump out at you when they didn’t the first time you saw a play years before. In a solid production at Shakespeare and Company of “Time Stands Still”, Mandy, a generation younger than the three other world-weary characters, proclaims  “There’...

 “I did consent”.  So begins “American Moor” written and performed by playwright and actor Keith Hamilton Cobb, who did consent to dedicating his life to the stage but did not consent to be African American. Cobb's premise is that It’s tough enough to be an actor, toug...

Director Jamie Lloyd’s production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” is Pinter perfect.  To be precise,  it’s not just a perfect dramatization of Pinter text, it’s also Pinter pure in its production concept, mis-en-scene and feel.  (With all respect to the genius career of...

Actor, pianist, and playwright Hershey Felder concluded his hugely successful, limited one-week run of his solo show “George Gershwin Alone” to an enthusiastic audience Saturday evening at Pittsfield’s Colonial Theatre.  Mr. Felder’s theatre niche is one-man, performan...