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…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:26PMFriday, May 5, 2017
by 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 07:01AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
by 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 04:17PMWednesday, March 29, 2017
AMHERST – 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 04:42PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
by 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…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:30PMThursday, February 16, 2017
Review: “The Book of Mormon” at The Bushnell by Mark G. Auerbach Broadway’s super-hit The Book of Mormon zipped into the Bushnell about three years ago, and completely lived up to its …
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:58PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach Road Trip: The Night of The Iguana at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge The American Repertory Theater at Harvard, best known as A.R.T. has been, in recent years, a…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:13PMSunday, January 22, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is one of the Bard’s most popular comedy hits. Going back to a plot familiar to the ancient Greeks and Romans, he tells the tale of…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:08AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
by Mark G. Auerbach Amadeus: A Majestic Musical Rivalry at The Majestic Amadeus, Peter Shaffer’s sweeping fictionalized history of the rivalry between classical music composers Wo…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:59PMThursday, December 29, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Broadway’s still hot ticket, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, kicks off the New Year at The Bushnell in Hartford, with performance…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 10:36AMWednesday, December 21, 2016
Outstanding Performances in a Musical Rhett Guter as the Elvis-type rock star who captivates the people in a small midwest town, as Conrad in Bye Bye Birdie, at Goodspeed. He turned �…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:52PMWednesday, December 14, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach So much to choose from and so little time to see everything. Outstanding Production of A Play and Outstanding New Play: American Son by Christopher Demos-Brown, Barringto…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 02:34PMWednesday, December 7, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach 2016: The Year in Review, Part I It’s been a great year for the arts, and over the next three weeks, we’ll recap the news, and best of the plays, musicals, and …
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 03:45PMTuesday, November 22, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach Once, Again If you missed Once, the multi-Tony Award-winning musical on Broadway, or its national tour at The Bushnell, there’s yet another opportunity for one performa…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:14PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach Two Americans in Paris An American in Paris, the new Gershwin musical based on the beloved movie, plays The Bushnell in Hartford on November 15-20. Director Christopher…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:33PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach The Berkshire Theatre Awards: A New Way to Recognize Excellence in Theatre Broadway has its Tony Awards for excellence in theatre.. Chicago has the Joseph Jefferson Award…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 03:26PMWednesday, October 12, 2016
by Mark Auerbach “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” Returns to Hartford Four years after its world premiere at Hartford Stage, and three years after it opened on Broadway, an…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 01:05PMSunday, September 25, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach For over forty years, the UMass Fine ArtsCenter has been the area’s year-round go-to venue for international music, dance, jazz, and theatre. They’ve opened their n…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 09:03AMThursday, September 1, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach Broadway Week Returns, September 5-18 Broadway’s on sale in September with two-for-one tickets available for many Broadway hits. Some of the participating shows include…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 09:43AMby Mark G. Auerbach Hartford Stage Opens Season With a World Premiere: “Queens For A Year” Hartford Stage opens its 2016-17 Season with the world premiere of T.D. Mitchell’s Queens For…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 06:20AMThursday, August 4, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach If/Then, the 2014 Broadway musical by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt, who created the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal for Broadway, opened the Bu…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 11:39AMSunday, July 10, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach The Berkshire Theatre Group has a fun-filled family-friendly production of the silly mock horror plant gone wild musical Little Shop of Horrors at The Colonial Theatre in…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:04PMTuesday, July 5, 2016
Summer Show Tunes Little Shop of Horrors in Pittsfield Pittsfield’s Colonial Theatre will host musical theatre’s favorite man-eating plant, when Berkshire Theatre Group presents the zany…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 09:57PMSunday, June 26, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach Tennessee Williams’ sizzling drama about a Southern family in crisis, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, is getting a superb revival at Berkshire Theatre Group through July 16. Dir…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:08PMMonday, June 13, 2016
by Mark G. Auerbach Those Singing and Dancing Political Candidates The 2016 Election campaign has more outrage, drama, tension, comedy, and sass than any multiplex cinema marquee. Tw…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 05:42PMFriday, June 10, 2016
Sunday’s Tony Award winners, which honor the best of Broadway, as acknowledged by their professional peers in the theatre industry, draw international attention. The winners attract audien…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 05:46AMFriday, March 25, 2016
“Having Our Say” Next at Hartford Stage Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters’ First 100 Years, the 1995 Broadway adapation of the sisters’ best-selling 1993 oral history, written with…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 05:23PMThursday, February 11, 2016
The Love Story of The Centuries: Romeo and Juliet Hartford Stage presents William Shakespeare’s most popular play, Romeo & Juliet, directed by Hartford Stage Artistic Director Darko Tr…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 12:37AMMonday, January 18, 2016
Jonathan Tolins’ very-funny Off-Broadway hit, Buyer and Cellar, starts the New Year at Hartford’s TheaterWorks, and it’s a well-written, well-performed, and well-staged comedy that exc…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 01:40PMMonday, November 16, 2015
LONGMEADOW – Two Longmeadow sisters have been cast in the 18th annual Hartford Stage production of A Christmas Carol, which runs November 27 through December 27 at the Tony Award-winni…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 01:11PMThursday, October 15, 2015
HARTFORD – Newsies arrived in Hartford this week with a solid reputation. It’s a recent Broadway hit with two Tony Awards to its credit. It’s a Disney Theatricals production, which…
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