THE MUSIC MAN
SHARON PLAYHOUSE’S THE MUSIC MAN: A CRYING SHAME Does “76 Trombones” mean a marching band? Not in Sharon Playhouse’s joyless, soulless...
EDWARD ALBEE'S AT HOME AT THE ZOO (ZOO STORY)
AN ALBEE AT ITS BEST Berkshire Theatre Group’s production of EDWARD ALBEE’S AT HOME AT THE ZOO (ZOO STORY) is one of those rare occasions...
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
FOR THE FUN OF IT.... For old-fashioned comedy, in old-fashioned summer stock style, in an old-fashioned summer theater look no further...
TAKING STEPS
TAKING STEPS: ALL UPS AND DOWNS Barrington Stage Company’s production of prolific British playwright Alan Ackybourn’s farce TAKING STEPS...
INITIMATE APPAREL
A director’s statement in a theater program shouldn’t articulate the playwright’s work better than what’s on stage, but sadly that's the...
THE HOLLER SESSIONS
Theater lovers like myself who love theater because it takes us to a place we can’t get to on our own will love Frank Boyd’s THE HOLLER...
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
BELLS ARE RINGING From its very start when a wacky Mrs. Bennett, mother to four husband-less daughters and fit-to-be tied about it, comes...
FAR AWAY
SHARON PLAYHOUSE: WTF? “Does anyone still wear a hat?”* Prisoners on their way to execution do - and big fancy ones at that - at Sharon...
I AND YOU
SONG OF OURSELVES Playwright Lauren Gunderson’s I AND YOU, which launches Chester Theatre Company’s summer season, is a little marvel. ...
CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (Berkshire Theatre Group, Stockbridge, MA) If the primary duty of a theater director is to enhance the work of...