Wednesday, November 17, 2021
By Mark G. Auerbach HARTFORD " The Tony Award-winning musical "The Band's Visit," has finally made its way to The Bushnell. The national tour of the 2018 Broadway hit was paused during the p…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 16, 2021
By Mark G. Auerbach A Crossing: A Dance Musical, the musical powerhouse which had its world premiere at Barrington Stage earlier this fall, will be available for streaming Nov. 18-21. For my…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 05:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 2, 2021
By Mark G. Auerbach The Berkshire Theatre Critics Association has announced the nominees for the fifth "Berkie" Awards, honoring excellence in Western Massachusetts, southern Vermont, Northe…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 02:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 10, 2021
By Mark G. Auerbach MOSSO: Members of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra will perform with the Kevin Sharpe Group at The Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival in Springfield on Aug. 14. They a…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 06:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 21, 2021
By Mark G. Auerbach Special to The Westfield News TheaterWorks Hartford, who throughout the pandemic, has produced a robust season of virtual theatre, brings the recent Broadway hit, Adam Ra…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 06:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 31, 2021
By Mark G. Auerbach Tanglewood will welcome in-person audiences back for live performances this summer, July 9-Aug. 16, with six weeks of performances, alongside comprehensive public heal…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 05:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2019
by Mark G. Auerbach Of Note Hartford Stage has announced the remaining two productions of its upcoming season. Incoming Artistic Director Melia Bensussen will stage Eugene O'Neill's comi…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2019
by Mark G. Auerbach Hartford Stage Announces Casting for "The Flamingo Kid" Hartford Stage has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere musical The Flamingo Kid, helmed by…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2019
by Mark G. Auerbach The Springfield Symphony Celebrates The Golden Age of Broadway on March 9 "There is no tune like a showtune" wrote Broadway composer Jerry Herman, and The Springfield Sym…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 24, 2019
by Mark G. Auerbach Hartford Stage is presenting Dominique Morriseau's Detroit '67, a co-production with New Jersey's McCarter Theatre,in a partnership which gave us Murder on The Orient Exp…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 09:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2018
by Mark G. Auerbach Storm Large, the Massachusetts born-and-raised chanteuse., rocker, singer/songwriter, actress, and frequent vocalist of Pink Martini, returned to the Valley with her back…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
by Mark G. Auerbach Theaterworks Presents "The Legend of Georgia McBride" Matthew Lopez's The Legend of Georgia McBride is a new play catching the attention of theatres coast-to-coast, and T…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 03:54PM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2018
by Mark G. Auerbach Darko Tresnjak will step down as Hartford Stage’s Artistic Director at the conclusion of the 2018-19 season. Tresnjak has served as the Tony Award-winning theatre's…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 09:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2018
by Mark G. Auerbach Think Summer! Chester Theatre Company Announces Season Producing Artistic Director Daniel Elihu Kramer has announced Chester Theatre Company’s 2018 Summer Season, w…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:11PM[SHARE]by Mark G. Auerbach Think Summer! Chester Theatre Company Announces Season Producing Artistic Director Daniel Elihu Kramer has announced Chester Theatre Company’s 2018 Summer Season, w…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:11PM[SHARE]by Mark G. Auerbach History repeats itself in musical theatre, as the Roundabout Theater's award-winning production of Cabaret visits the UMass Fine Arts Center for one performance. Dire…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:19AM[SHARE]by Mark G. Auerbach History repeats itself in musical theatre, as the Roundabout Theater's award-winning production of Cabaret visits the UMass Fine Arts Center for one performance. Dire…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2018
by Mark G. Auerbach Think Summer! CT. Rep Announces Nutmeg Summer Series Terrence Mann has announced the three-musical summer season for the Connecticut Repertory Theatre's Nutmeg Summer Ser…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 03:56PM[SHARE]by Mark G. Auerbach Think Summer! CT. Rep Announces Nutmeg Summer Series Terrence Mann has announced the three-musical summer season for the Connecticut Repertory Theatre's Nutmeg Summer Ser…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 03:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 21, 2018
by Mark G. Auerbach I watched the film version of The Bodyguard for the first time over the weekend, and like many of the reviewers covering the film in 1992, felt that the score was beyond-…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:36AM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2018
by Taylor Choquette, intern, WSU ’18 WESTFIELD – On March 1-3, the Musical Theatre Guild at Westfield State University will be putting on their production of Carrie: the Musical.…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
by Mark G. Auerbach PITTSFIELD – Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and its Artistic Director and CEO Kate Maguire have announced the line-up for Berkshire Theatre Group's 90th Anniv…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 20, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach Rags Gets A Goodspeed Makeover Rags, the famed 1986 musical flop, had a lot of promise going for it, when it opened in Boston enroute to Broadway. It featured a book by J…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:44PM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach Westfield native Joshua Burrage, who joined the national tour of the Broadway musical Newsies shortly after graduating from Westfield High School in 2014, has been cast i…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 02:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach The national national tour of the Broadway musical Finding Neverland is playing the Bushnell this week, and it's a first rate version of the recent Broadway production th…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:08AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach TheaterWorks ends its stellar season with the world premiere of Hartford playwright Jacques Lamarre's stage adaptation of foodie TV star Chef Rossi's autobiography Raging…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 10:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach Discount Tickets At Berkshires Theatres If you're a Broadway bargain hunter, you know about the TKTS booth in Times Square, where you can purchase discounted tickets for …
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:26PM[SHARE]Monday, June 26, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach Barrington Stage has opened its Boyd-Quinson Mainstage season with a handsome production of Ragtime, beautifully staged by Joe Calarco with an assist from Shea Sullivan's…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 10:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 20, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach Darko Tresnjak's back in Hartford, after steering Anastasia to Broadway, and Hartford Stage is presenting his take on George Bernard Shaw's comedic and caustic Heartbreak…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 10:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 17, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach Jeff McCarthy is "Kunstler" in Barrington Stage Season Opener Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA presents The Creative Place I…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach Heartbreak House Closes Hartford Stage Season George Bernard Shaw's comic and caustic masterwork, Heartbreak House closes Hartford Stage's current season, May 11-June 11.…
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