Monday, August 20, 2012
2 Berkshire Theaters conclude their seasons with leave-them-laughing shows, one a world premiere, the other a classic old&nb…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 19, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
2012 New York International Fringe Festival - reviews will be updated regularly throughout the festival. . .The Fring puts on some 200 shows so, even if al…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 03:46PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2012
Barrington Stage's leave-them-laughing Main Stage finale for Summer 2012, is sublimely silly, superbly timed and performed . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:29PM[SHARE]In her opening night welcoming speech the artistic director suggested that since this is a co-production with three other theater companies, viewers might want to see it again and again. Des…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
It's a love story. It's a political drama. It's a flavorful slice of American history. It's an acting tour-de-force for Jayne Atkinson
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 4, 2012
while Arlene Hutton's play is aptly named, the literal meaning of that title is only part of what this two-hander is about.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:35AM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
The David Rubenstein Atrium will resume its regular programming of music and dance events on Thursday, August 9, 2012 after having been the site for the "The Clock," Christian Marclay's ep…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2012
Shakespeare's tragedy with a Tsarist Russia twist and company co-founder playing the coveted title role . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Three new Berkshire Reviews: Coming up King Lear, Arline (Nibroc Trilogy) Hutton's Running. . .and moreSummer 2012 Reviews and Features …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 07:06PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2012
-Rajiv Joseph has borrowed Agatha Christie's favorite device, planting clues and red herrings to keep her readers reading. The Miss Marple of Joseph's The North Pool, now having its Northeas…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2012
A tense and exciting production sensitively directed by Julianne Boyd with a splendid cast to deal with the secrets and lies shadowing the on the surface American as apple pie Keller family …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:57AM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2012
While the iconoclastic Murray Burns is the central character in Herb Gardner's 1962 comedy, it's Russel Posner's young Nick Burns, who is the star of the Berkshire Theatr Group's revival
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:50PM[SHARE]a sneak peek at Williamstown Theatre Festival's developmental production of the new musical based on the 2002 film . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Dogfight - With a bit of luck, enough good reviews and the positive-word-of- mouth that has been generated since previews began, this new musical will follow the path that catapulted …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 11:59AM[SHARE]liked A Class Act well enough to look forward to seeing it once again, especially given the Berkshire Theater Group's synergistic summer 2012 scheduling. Their annual big musical at the Colo…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:04AM[SHARE]Summer invariably brings Shakespeare production to parks. But The Drilling Company's has once again chosen a di…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:50AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2012
-Besides a dream cast to make her choice of this play as smart as Barney Cashman's choice of women to dally with on his mother's convertible couch are not, Jessica Stone has an outstanding d…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:23PM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2012
Monday, July 09, 2012Latest Reviews & Features New York Macbeth - Alan Cumming's solo Macbeth offers a chance to hear the lines delivered in an authentic scottish voice-- check back …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 01:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2012
Fortunately, musical theater directors seem to be less impelled to diddle with firmly established works and ignore the old idage of don't fix what ain't broke. And Eric Hill, who's not avers…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 7, 2012
Given the Chester Theatre's love story theme for this summer, this season opener may be seen as a variation of the love triangle, with its three characters coming together through their rela…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:01AM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2012
Mark St. Germain, Dr. Ruth and Barrington Stage have found the right formula for a solo show with dramatic oomph. . . …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:07AM[SHARE]As regular Curtainup readers know, plays with just one performer holding the stage aren't exactly my favorite things. Yet, every now and then along comes a new addition to this genre that co…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:33AM[SHARE]With Wilde's classic comedy produced so many times that it's hard not to stifle a yawn at the idea of yet another production. Therefore you can't fault director David Hyde Pierce for wanting…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
What a way for Barrington Stange to launch its 2012 Main Stage season! Broadway veteran Brad Oscar as a brilliantly nuanced Teyve, with more than two dozen performers to play his wife, five …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:53PM[SHARE]Despite my quibbles with this revival of Charles Busch's Manhattan satire, it should find a ready audience among Berkshirites looking for light summer fare
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 24, 2012
The title of Mark Roberts' tragi-comedy now in its East Coast premiere at Shakespeare & Co's second stage symbolizes the traumas that have haunted two brothers and their sister. Roberts, has…
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