MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR – Shakespeare & Company
The weather gods didn't bless the late August, midweek evening I attended “Merry Wives of Windsor” at Shakespeare & Company. The Roman...
DON PASQUALE – Berkshire Opera Festival
Berkshire Opera Festival’s excellent “Don Pasquale” is everything a comic opera ought to be: funny, broadly played by agile actors;...
TOPDOG/UNDERDOG - Shakespeare & Company
“It was joke", Lincoln tells his younger brother Booth, why their father named them as he did. But there’s no joke about the desperate...
FALL SPRINGS - Barrington Stage Company
"Fall Springs", a new musical, is a cartoon. Cartoon plot. Cartoon scenery . Cartoon characters. Mayor Bradley, a Mister Rogers-like...
WHAT WE MAY BE- Berkshire Theatre Group
If ever there were an example of how an accomplished actress can overcome ho-hum material, it is the marvelous Penny Fuller in Kathleen...
BEFORE THE MEETING - Williamstown Theatre Festival
Williamstown Theatre Festival concludes its 2019 season with not only the most authentic dramatic depiction of recovering alcoholics but...
THE BROTHERS SIZE – Ancram Opera House
It’s hard to imagine a more intimate or powerful production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s "The Brothers Size" than the probing, searing...
CURVE OF DEPARTURE – Chester Theatre Company
It’s rare to find a contemporary American drama that is neither, on one end, steeped in cynicism nor, at the other, drenched in...
GHOSTS - Williamstown Theatre Festival
At least Williamstown Theater Festival aspired to something different in its disappointing, ultimately lifeless, production of Henry...
IF I FORGET - Barrington Stage Company
The first act of “If I Forget” is perhaps the best composed and dynamically plotted piece of theatre with ensemble acting the Berkshires...
