Monday, August 15, 2011
WELLFLEET - There comes a moment in Stephen Sachs’s “Bakersfield Mist’’ when a hitherto stuffy art expert works himself into a frenzy as he reenacts the convulsive pr…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:34PMSaturday, August 13, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
THEATER ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:24AMMonday, August 8, 2011
WELLFLEET - Simon, a central character in Dipika Guha’s “The Betrothed,’’ wears an expression of sweaty panic for much of the play - and it’s hard to blame him.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:25PMSunday, August 7, 2011
LENOX - At first, the stage is dark, and the only sound we hear is a deep, knowing laugh - the laugh of someone who finds absurdities to savor pretty much everywhere she looks.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:17PMThursday, August 4, 2011
When Helena first confesses to the Countess of Rossillion that she loves the noblewoman’s son, Bertram, in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s sprightly production of “All&#…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:19PMSunday, July 31, 2011
WILLAMSTOWN – Early in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s stylish production of “She Stoops to Conquer,’’ Mr. Hardcastle, the befuddled paterfamilias played by Pax…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:06PMFriday, July 29, 2011
PITTSFIELD - In the annals of strange political bedfellows, few alliances can have been stranger than that of Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:11PMThursday, July 28, 2011
A DOLL’S HOUSE Lily Rabe gives an electric performance as Nora in this contemporized version of Ibsen’s landmark drama. Through July 31. Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamsto…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:11PMMonday, July 25, 2011
CHESTER – A few months ago, “The Grand Inquisitor,’’ a stage adaptation of a section of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,’’ came t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:34PMGLOUCESTER - Before “Last Day’’ finally and fatally succumbs to soap operatics, it shows some promise as a Mamet-style immersion in a gritty milieu whose rough-edged charac…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:32PMSunday, July 24, 2011
WILLIAMSTOWN - Most actresses who tackle the role of Nora Helmer in “A Doll’s House’’ frame the character’s arc as a journey from coquettish submission to decis…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:22PMFriday, July 22, 2011
PITTSFIELD - Standing before the audience on opening night of “Mormons, Mothers and Monsters,’’ composer William Finn drolly welcomed them to “the only Mormon show yo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:28PMSunday, July 17, 2011
STOCKBRIDGE - Can a marriage survive when the Other Woman is a dog? That is one of the questions at the heart of “Sylvia,’’ a winningly offbeat 1995 comedy by A.R. Gurney t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:47PMFriday, July 15, 2011
WELLFLEET - In his 2005 bestseller “Everything Bad Is Good for You,’’ Steven Johnson argued that the complexity of video games presents an array of cognitive challenges tha…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:14PMWednesday, July 13, 2011
CAMBRIDGE - By now, 14 years after “Good Will Hunting’’ lifted them to stardom, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have solidified their place in the Hollywood firmament.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:36PMMonday, July 11, 2011
WILLIAMSTOWN - If you think of Lewis Black solely as a curmudgeonly comedian whose default setting is a state of apoplexy at the imbecility of his fellow man, you might be surprised by ̶…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:48PMSunday, July 10, 2011
PITTSFIELD - Late in the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s darkly hypnotic, first-rate production of “The Who’s Tommy,’’ the title character tries to shake off the n…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:51PMTuesday, July 5, 2011
All the stage is awhirl in Shakespeare & Company’s exuberant and inventive production of “As You Like It,’’ a comedy with eternal lessons to teach about the folly…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:51PMMonday, July 4, 2011
STOCKBRIDGE - If the trippy revival of “Hair’’ made you nostalgic for the 1960s, “Moonchildren’’ will dispel that in a hurry.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:32PMSunday, July 3, 2011
WILLIAMSTOWN - For the middle-age married couple in Jon Robin Baitz’s “Three Hotels,’’ youthful idealism has gone to ashes.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:28PMThursday, June 23, 2011
PITTSFIELD — Driven by the star power of Daniel Radcliffe, Frank Loesser’s “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’’ has become a box-office smash on …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:14PM 
