52 stories by "Don Aucoin"
For all I know, Rachel York spends her time away from the theater adopting stray kittens or quietly needlepointing in a rocking chair. But onstage? There, York is not to be trifled with. No …
PITTSFIELD - For all I know, Rachel York spends her time away from the theater adopting stray kittens or quietly needlepointing in a rocking chair.
WILLIAMSTOWN - For both artistic and commercial reasons, it makes sense for theater companies to tackle works that connect with the universal human experience.
CAMBRIDGE - Somewhere amid the disjointed mess that is “Bad Daddy: The Musical’’’ lurks the germ of a half-decent idea.
WILLIAMSTOWN - Perhaps it’s odd, even heretical, to think of another songwriter’s words when you’re listening to the songs of Rodgers and Hart.
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…
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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.
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.
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&#…
WILLAMSTOWN – Early in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s stylish production of “She Stoops to Conquer,’’ Mr. Hardcastle, the befuddled paterfamilias played by Pax…
PITTSFIELD - In the annals of strange political bedfellows, few alliances can have been stranger than that of Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis.
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…
CHESTER – A few months ago, “The Grand Inquisitor,’’ a stage adaptation of a section of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,’’ came t…
GLOUCESTER - 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 ̶…
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…
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…
STOCKBRIDGE - If the trippy revival of “Hair’’ made you nostalgic for the 1960s, “Moonchildren’’ will dispel that in a hurry.
