1776: It’s In The Book
The most trenchant scene in the Broadway revival of “1776” is the dramatic conclusion wherein Thomas Jefferson - after relentless...
WAITING FOR GODOT - AT BSC THE DIRECTOR RULES
My curiosity to see Barrington Stages Company's production WAITING FOR GODOT was based on what director Joe Calarco would do with it. ...
A SONDHEIM FAVORITE IN THE BERKSHIRES: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Yet another production of Stephen Sondheim’s A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC comes to the Berkshires. I can recall three here in the last twenty...
GUYS AND DOLLS SOARS AT SHARON PLAYHOUSE
This review appears in The Lakevile Journal ediion of August 4, 2022. Sharon Playhouse’s joyous production of the 1950 “Guys and Dolls”,...
INTO THE WOODS - St. James Theatre
Like many of us whose musical theater experience is informed by Stephen Sondheim more than any other composer/ lyricist (my first was the...
POOF! - Ancram Opera House
This is an excerpt about POOF! from my August 2021 review of the three Plein Air plays, one of which was POOF, that AOH produced last...
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ - Barrington Stage Company
This writer loathes the promiscuous use of superlatives by theatre reviewers, but I’ll just declare - Barrington Stage Company’s new...
THE SHOT - Great Barrington Public Theatre
The summer Berkshire theater season has already seen a highpoint with the premiere of THE SHOT, an impressive playwriting debut for...
KICK-AZ WHAT IF HISTORY
With comic antecedents ranging from Chaucer to Monty Python, rollicking on Hartford Stage is the raucous, bawdy, irreverent new musical...
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT - Nederlander Theatre
Late in the first act of “Mr. Saturday Night” there’s a charming musical number called “Timing” which strikes to the core of any...
