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The Goodspeed Opera House serves up an uneven revival of the beloved Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein musical.
STOCKBRIDGE - You’re sitting on the subway, minding your own business, maybe buried in a book, when someone agitated and off-kilter initiates a conversation. If you haven’t had a…
Lily Rabe gives an attention-grabbing performance as Nora in the Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of Henrik Ibsen's play.
WALTHAM - Mere cub - or cur? In productions of “The Graduate,’’ a 2000 playscript cross-adapted from the 1967 film classic and the 1963 novel that inspired it, a lot hinges…
LENOX - In her fairly faithful rendering of “Romeo and Juliet’’ for Shakespeare & Company, director Daniela Varon makes a number of critical interventions, some of whic…
WALTHAM - Reagle Music Theatre, that curious amalgam of professional actors and community thespians, is taking on two Rodgers & Hammerstein biggies this summer: “Oklahoma!’&#…
Randy Harrison gives a dynamite performance in the title role of the Berkshire Theatre Festival's production of the Tony Award-winning musical.
LENOX – Perhaps you consider yourself too sophisticated to fall for the buffoonery of commedia dell’arte. Perhaps the broad jokes (lazzi) and character stereotypes (tipi fissi) s…
Steven Weber and Maura Tierney star in the Williamstown Theatre Festival's superb revival of Jon Robin Baitz's play.
Big shows brought in record money, but some of the smaller productions were the ones that shined the brightest.
Leslie Kritzer leads a strong cast in Barrington Stage's revival of Frank Loesser's beloved musical.
The Book of Morman dominated the new-musical categories at the Tonys, with War Horse cleaning up in the nonmusical arena.
Marsha Mason stars in the Westport Country Playhouse's first-rate production of W. Somerset Maugham's still-timely drawing room comedy.
Charles Shaughnessy and Lisa O'Hare add grandeur to the North Shore Music Theater's production of the classic Lerner and Loewe musical.
Jessica Hecht and Sam Rockwell head A Streetcar Named Desire in the Berkshires, Charles Shaughnessy stars in My Fair Lady in Cape Ann, Josh Grisetti and Judy Blazer are in No Way to Treat a …
This bracing tribute show to composer Cy Coleman has romance, glamour, gutsy emotion, and six brilliant performers.
Target Margin's reimagining of Shakespeare's classic play lacks passion.
Bekah Brunstetter's problematic comedy about a young woman and her mother-in-law gets a surehanded production.
May highlights include Emerging America Festival, Peter Pansy, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Drowsy Chaperone, Seth Rudetsky's Deconstructing Broadway, Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo, and dw…
Kathleen Turner and Evan Jonigkeit give strong performances in Matthew Lombardo's drama about a nun trying to counsel a young drug addict.
Stephen Karam's new play about a man dealing with the sudden death of his father and his own failing health unsuccessfully aims for levity.
Owen Panettieri's new play is an impressively realistic portrait of three young people sharing a Harlem apartment.
Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet makes its world premiere, featuring Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason. Additional April highlights include Suzan Lori-Parks' The Book of Grace, Patti LuPon…
John Douglas Thompson and Annika Boras give electrifying performances in Ann Arbus' taut production of Shakespeare's tragedy.
A London import packs insight as well as humor to spare.
