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Review: "Merrily We Roll Along" at Sharon Playhouse

By Dan ShawWalking out of the Sharon Playhouse after its exhilarating production of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, it’s impossible to comprehend how this musical was a flop when it opened on Broadway in 1981, closing after 16 performances. The story of three best friends — composer Franklin

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Review: "Oklahoma!" at Bard Summerscape

By Dan Shaw Everything is up to date at Bard Summerscape, where director Daniel Fish has gone as far as he can go in reimagining Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (which opened on Broadway in 1943), transforming it into an edgy, immersive and sexy musical. If you’ve seen Oklahoma!

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Review: "My Fair Lady" at Sharon Playhouse

By Dan Shaw As the nine-piece Sharon Playhouse orchestra delivers a rousing rendition of the lush, melodic Overture to Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady, the heart overflows with expectations and the mind with anxiety: One wonders whether Rufus Collins as Professor Henry Higgins and Lee Harrington as the

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Review: "Man of La Mancha" at Barrington Stage

By Dan Shaw We all know that Barrington Stage Company’s formidable founder Julianne Boyd excels when she is directing musicals with dark themes —remember her productions of Carousel and Sweeney Todd? Now, with Man of La Mancha, which is set in a prison during the Spanish Inquisition, she has

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Bard's 'Oklahoma' Puts The Audience In The Action (Picnic Style)

Heading the cast are Damon Daunno, Allison Strong, Amber Gray and Mary Testa. Photo by Julieta Cervantes. By Robert Burke Warren Bard SummerScape’s upcoming production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved Oklahoma! offers some surprises, especially if you’ve already seen the musical in its typically broad theatrical glory.

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New Storyhorse Theater Presents Locals' Lives As Docudrama

By Jamie Larson Lyme disease is a thief. The painless, capricious bite of a tiny tick robs the buoyancy from the personal relationship we have with the natural beauty of our region, steals our health and strength, and, in an increasing number of cases, has taken the lives of people

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Searching For The Moon: Amber Chand's Heroine's Journey

Photo by Karen Schiltz By Amy Krzanik Not just anyone can pull off a one-woman show. You need to have the talent to write one and the energy to perform it, as well as a story interesting enough to hold an audience’s attention. None of these were problems for

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Stage AND Screen: Broadcasting Broadway to the Berkshires

Chris O'Dowd and James Franco. Photo by Richard Phibbs. By Nichole Dupont The greatest moments are sadly the most fleeting. And what is more fleeting than the stage? We mourn that we never saw the sweat on Lawrence Olivier’s newly-muscled forearm in his stage debut as the

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How Playwright Winter Miller Got The Story Of 'In Darfur'

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Review "An Enemy of the People" at Barrington Stage

Arthur Miller’s 1950 play, An Enemy of the People, which he adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s prophetic 1882 play, is the story of a small Norwegian town called Kirsten Springs whose prosperity and identity are dependent on its salubrious waters, which the town doctor discovers are, in fact, toxic.

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John Waters Brings His Filthy World To Hudson (To Fundraise!)

Photo by Greg Gorman By Robert Burke Warren Ever since filmmaker-performer-author John Waters unleashed his transgressive 1972 cult classic Pink Flamingos on an unsuspecting public, he’s accepted numerous titles: The Pope of Trash, The Baron of Bad Taste, The Prince of Puke. With a reputation like that, attendees to

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Review: "The Visit" at Williamstown Theatre Festival

By Dan Shaw Without baring her famous legs or a single high-step, Chita Rivera razzle-dazzles us in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s production of Kander & Ebb’s The Visit. As Claire Zachanassian, the richest women in the world who has returned to the small, down-on-its-luck European village where she grew

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