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 06:30AMBy 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 health…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 05:09PMby 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 co…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:42PMby 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, helme…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:21PMby 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…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:38PMby 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 Orie…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 09:08AMby 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 07:11AMby 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,…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 03:54PMby 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�…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 09:09AMby 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 04:11PMby 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 04:11PMby 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 07:19AMby 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 07:19AMby 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 S…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 03:56PMby 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 S…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 03:56PMby 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 07:36AMby 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 07:02AMby 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 Anniver…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 05:01PMby 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 04:44PMby 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 02:20PMby 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 …
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:08AMby 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 Ra…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 10:57AMby 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 fo…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:26PMby 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�…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 10:42AMby 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 Heartb…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 10:28AMby 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 Pla…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:40PMby 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…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:26PMby Mark G. Auerbach I had never heard about Pink Martini until a couple of years ago, when a friend shared a video of NPR reporter and All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro performing with …
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:01AMby Mark G. Auerbach Countdown to The Tony Awards Last year, one musical, Hamilton, dominated the Tony Awards race. This season, there are at least eleven competing for the slot of “Best Mu…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:17PMAMHERST – One of the nation’s foremost dance companies, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall Tuesday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. Proc…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:42PMby Mark G. Auerbach Saturday Night Fever With its solid gold Bee Gees score and a smart story about a high-stepping disco dancer, from the streets of New York, played to perfection by John T…
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