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Bulgarians Invade Lenox

(L-R) Kevin Coleman, Ivan Dobchev, JoJo Hrstova, Walton Wilson Photos by Enrico Spada Walton Wilson has been cradling his head in his hands for about a half hour now, his face completely hidden from view. The character he’s portraying in an informal performance of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya

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Selected Shorts: Review of BSC's 10x10 New Play Festival

If you have to have a citywide arts festival in the dead of winter, you absolutely must have good theater somewhere, if not everywhere. And preferably of the kind that doesn’t strain the audience’s understandably frigid attention span. This is a hallmark of 2013’s 10x10 Upstreet Festival

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His Brother's Keeper: Van Gogh Takes Center Stage

He was a zealous Evangelical preacher, a surrogate father to the children of a whore, a lover of wheat fields, an artist...but above all else, Vincent van Gogh was a misunderstood man with an unbridled passion for love of all kinds. So says his disabused brother Theo in Starry

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Kelly Meets Cage, Once Again

Left: photo of John Kelly by Billy Erb; right: photo of John Cage poster by Everett McCourt On a New Year's Eve in the early 1990s, John Kelly was invited to a party at a downtown Manhattan loft while working on a production of his Light Shall Lift

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Theater Review: The 39 Steps Takes a Leap or Three

The dynamic cast of S&Co's The 39 Steps. All photos by Kevin Sprague. In the world of pre-war British espionage, it's all fun and games until someone loses a major national security secret, at which point, quite naturally, things just get hysterical. At least

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Singing Change Along: The Old Mezzo Debuts at WAM Theatre

WAM co-founder Kristen van Ginhoven and playwright Susan Dworkin What are the politics of singing—and what are the costs? These questions are at the heart of Women’s Action Movement (WAM) Theatre’s world premiere of The Old Mezzo, which runs from October 12-28. The Old Mezzo tells the

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Theater Review: John Douglas Thompson Soars in Satchmo at the Waldorf

Shakespeare & Company’s final new production of the summer season is Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout'sSatchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play set in 1971 in the dressing room of the jazz great Louis Armstrong, after what would turn out to be his last performance.

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The British Are Ailing — Existentially!

Celia Schaefer, Timothy Deenihan, and Danielle SkraastadTomorrow in the Battle, at Stageworks/Hudson, is an excellent and challenging work about three British professionals: Jennifer, a sexy female financier about to get swallowed up  by the collapse of the banking industry;  Anna, a defense minister about to lie to Parliament about

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Reviews: Comic Catharsis Across the Eras

Carolyn Michelle Smith, Tina Benko, and Kathy Searle in WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! at Williamstown Theatre Festival There was a time when I fully subscribed to the notion, as Philip Barry often put forth in his lovely plays The Philadelphia Story and Holiday, that the rich should be looked upon with the same

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A Month in the Country at Williamstown

Kate Kearney-Patch, Jessica Collins, and Elisabeth Waterston It isn’t very often that the translators of a play receive the kind of star billing that Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky get for their work on the  Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Ivan Turgenev’s 1850 play,  A Month in the

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Tempest with a Twist at Shakespeare & Co.

Photos by Kevin Sprague What's in an "A"?  In Shakespeare & Company's rich and nimble production of The Tempest, it's the difference between Prospero—the exiled Duke, loving father, and generally embittered sorcerer at the center of the story—and Prospera, that

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Review: "Allergist's Wife" at Shakespeare & Company

The actress Annette Miller has a history of playing formidable women on the stages at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. We've seen her as the prime minister of Israel in Golda's Balcony, the fashion legend Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop, and as the outspoken Watergate wife

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