

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 - 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...


CONSTELLATIONS - Berkshire Theatre Festival
There’s probably no better example of an “actor’s play” or a play better suited for direction by an actor than CONSTELLATIONS at The...


SISTER PLAY - Chester Theatre Company
There’s quiet magic on the tiny stage in the small town hall in Chester Massachusetts nestled in the western edge of Pioneer Valley. To...


AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER: ANOTHER WTF AT WTF
Plays from the past might have contemporary resonance but that doesn’t mean they’re good plays. Such is the case with Williamstown...


CATS: NOW AND FOREVER, AGAIN
The revival of CATS at the Neil Simon Theatre plays out as a peculiar breed of musical theater that is a cross between old-fashioned...


CRY ‘HAVOC!’
CRY “HAVOC!” - SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY All you need for a great piece of theater is great storytelling, says CRY HAVOC’s director Eric...