JERSEY BOYS REDUX, SORT OF
Sometimes even the most stellar combination of exceptional creative talent doesn’t add up to exceptional theatre. That’s the case with...
IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO
The Broadway presentation of the Donmar Warehouse’s revival of LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES gets a little slack in its Atlantic crossing. La...
CHASING RAINBOWS: THE ROAD TO OZ - Goodspeed Opera House
Urban legends about Judy Garland, nee Frances Gumm, get softened around the edges and the popular music of the decade leading up to her...
THE BAKELITE MASTERPIECE -Â Berkshire Theatre Group
Playwright Kate Cayley’s Bakelite Masterpiece is a fictionalized version of the trial of artist Han van Meegeren, who was arrested at the...
QUEENS FOR A YEAR - Hartford Stage
QUEENS FOR A YEAR, a derogatory reference for female soldiers, is an earnest but unfocused play, in its world premiere at Hartford Stage,...
FIORELLO! - THOSE WERE THE DAYS
(Reviewed in July 2016 in its original presentation - same production - in the Berkshires before its Off-Broadway run in NYC.) As an...
DYNO-MITE!
Most astonishing about BROADWAY BOUNTY HUNTER, a sassy, joyous, booty-shakin’, dyno-mite new musical in its world premiere at Barrington...
QUARTET -Â Sharon Playhouse
For a sedate evening of civilized entertainment attend QUARTET, which closes out Sharon Playhouse’s summer season. The 1999 play written...
THE MOUNTAINTOP - Chester Theatre Company
Playwright Katori Hall introduces us to Martin Luther King in his room in the fateful Memphis motel as he instructs Ralph Abernathy to...
DEATH THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME
The decision to commit suicide is the most personal, defining conflict with self one can imagine, but when a playwright opens his play...