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The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde. A review of a new production of the 1895 Victorian satire at the Majestic Theater.
Reflecting on Christmas 2023, not a great year, not a happy party-filled year, more a slog. But there was some bright spots.
Tonight, I got a behind-the-scenes look at a new production by Easthampton Theater Company when four actors read Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song.
A Christmas Story tells the tale of Ralphie, a kid who desperately wants a BB gun for Christmas but has to work to get it—review of Ja’Duke Theater.
Another great weekend, made special by my old friend Harry Garton arriving for a visit and skiing at Stratton Mountain in Vermont.
Tonight at Rand Theater: They Don’t Pay, We Won’t Pay, a 1974 socialist play by Dario Fo, performed by 8 UMass actors. This is the review.
Port of Entry is a play by Talya Kingston, the first production in the six-play reading series in Northampton, MA, by upcoming playwrights.
Shorts and Briefs at Springfield College. A presentation of seven plays that were all around ten minutes long, a combination of all 7 different couples.
It’s not every day in 2023, that someone decides to go all in on books. Printed books, the kind we all used to read a lot more of and even take out of the library. Yesterday in Greenfield, Mass, I visited one of the biggest bookstores in New England, and […]
Lizzie is the story behind the famous ax murders in Fall River Mass in 1892, the production by Ghost Light Theater tells the back story of what made Lizzie do, or not do, the deed.
Iolanthe, a perennial favorite by Gilbert and Sullivan, is Valley Light Opera’s new production, Academy of Music in Northampton, in their 48th year.
Moonglow, a play set in 1967 by Jack Neary, tells the story of Ray and two women who want his heart.