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Theater: A Bear And A Rembrandt Walk Into A Room...

Michael Burnet directs two charming one-acts for the inaugural season of Pythagoras Theatre Works. Photo: Jeremy D. Goodwin. By Jeremy D. Goodwin Do we need more theater here in the Rural Intelligence region? When you have access to the sort of talent that the brand-new Pythagoras Theatre Works does, and

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30 Years In, Powerhouse Theater Still Thrives On Risk Taking

John Patrick Shanley directs Kyra Sedgwick and Annika Boras in "The Danish Widow." (Photos by Buck Lewis.) By Robert Burke Warren Chances are good that at least one great playwright is, at this moment, making last minute adjustments to his/her script for a Powerhouse Theater performance of

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Review: "Falsettos" at Sharon Playhouse

By Dan Shaw William Finn’s 1992 Tony Award-winning musical Falsettos now at Tri Arts Sharon Playhouse (through July 20) begins in 1979 (Act I) and ends in 1981 (Act II). The first act was originally its own musical written before the AIDS crisis, and it tells a quintessential 1970s

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At Shakespeare & Co., A 'Midsummer' And All That Jazz

Briana Maia, Michael F. Toomey and Atalanta Seigel. Photo by Kevin Sprague. By Jeremy D. Goodwin Jazz is a music of possibilities. So too is the music of theater. Even in the midst of a long run, each performance of a given production is meant to rise anew from the

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Review: "Kiss Me, Kate" at Barrington Stage Company

By Dan Shaw Over the past few years, Barrington Stage Company (BSC) has set a high bar for its season-opening musical with indelible productions of Carousel, Sweeney Todd, Guys & Dolls and Fiddler on the Roof. Last year’s incendiary staging of On the Town — which New York Times critic

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'Arrowhead: A Musical ' Is For — And By — The Millennials

By Lisa Green Most college kids, home for the summer, get a job, hang out with their high school buddies, take a road trip. Not Jackson Teeley. No, the 2012 Monument Mountain High School graduate produces a musical he wrote in, oh, about four months. Along with his good friend,

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Barrington Stage Opener Takes Audiences To 'The Other Place'

By Jeremy D. Goodwin In Hamlet, when the Danish prince is on full tilt, having just stashed the body of the freshly murdered Polonius behind some stairs, the king furiously demands to know where his (late) advisor is. “In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not

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Kristin Wold Takes Center Stage In The Story Of The Bard's Bed

By Jeremy D. Goodwin Among other things, Kristin Wold has spent the past two-and-a-half decades playing and teaching all things Shakespeare. But with the exception of a cluster of iconic female leads— like Rosalind in As You Like It and Viola in Twelfth Night—the Bard was famously stingy when

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Actor Hamish Linklater Comes Home As A Playwright

By Tresca Weinstein Ever since he was a child cast in Shakespeare & Company productions (his mother was a founder of the troupe), actor Hamish Linklater  (best known for his roles in the TV series The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Crazy Ones and The Newsroom) has loved to

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Review: "10 x 10" Festival at Barrington Stage

By Dan Shaw You have probably spent a lot of time this snowbound winter in front of the television. Netflix, Showtime and PBS notwithstanding, you’ve probably realized that television is actually getting worse, not better — sitcoms with 90-second scenes, dramas that depend on violence instead of dialogue to stir

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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Heats Up Hudson

By Robert Burke Warren Perhaps you've got a top hat and tailcoat in the closet? Or a corset and tutu you've been dying to wear? The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus invites you to dig them out, put them on, and be part of the spectacle at a

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A 'Wonderful Life' Hits Home

By Jeremy D. Goodwin The woman sitting by the hearth looked so calm and comfortable, so part of the scenery, I wondered whether she was a volunteer who’d been stationed there deliberately. Before the start of Shakespeare & Company’s thoroughly entertaining production of the holiday classic It’s

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