A revival strictly for good time nostalgia lovers

Same Time, Next Year - Bernard Slade's crowd-pleasing comedy gets its latest revival, starring a real married cou;le . . . Read More

2 versatile actors take on a musical murder mystery

Murder for Two - Get out your sweat rags, murder mystery buffs! This musical whodunit musical, is 80 minutes of non-stop wackiness and

Reality TV hits the stage-- singing

Nobody Loves You - a new musical satire geared to the hashtag-twitter generation Read More

Hunky Jeff McCarthy is a hunky lady named Lola. . .

Southern Comfort - despite the provocative subject of transgender life, this isn't a show sizzling with sex. Instead the sizzle comes from the tenderness and warmth of the various one on one relationships; also from the overall closeness of this group of people who have formed a "chosen family" un

In a world full of religious strife, Potok's memoir still resonates

The Chosen - Though set in a narrow Brooklyn community between 1944 and 1948, the divide between different beliefs and life styles is mor

3 new reviews from our London critic

A Season in the Congo - Joe Wright is making political history accessible through the medium of theatre and Chiwetel Ejiofor's towering performance will have many researching Patrice Lumumba. . . Read More

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart -David Greigs's witty text is clever and insightful, lifting the show above the merely silly and the energy of the performances allow it to rattle along at a great pace. . . Read More

Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi - The Finborough has a knack for brilliant scheduling and in this revival of Pam Gems' 1970s play, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi I fou

Shaw would love this Pygmalion-- and so will you

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Pygmalion - The exceptionally well cast and staged revival of Shaw's most popular play is closing next week. If you don't want to miss having a genuinely " loverly" time, get thee to the main stage of the Williamstown Theatre Festival as fast as you can. . . Read More

A new genre: the chamber-ama at Shakespeare & Co.

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None But the Lonely Heart: The Strange Story of Tchaikovsky and Madame von Meck - if you're a music lover, and especially fond of Tchaikovsky's "Piano Trio in A Minor," rejoice. You're going to hear it all, plus several other of the Maestro's works, performed by live musicians in this concert-arama. . . Read More

We continue to graze the NYMusic Festival

The NY Music Festival 2013: - Pirates of Finance. . .Bend in the Road. . . The Awakening of Angel DeLuna . . . Life Could Be a Dream. . . Julian Po. . . Songs for a More Funnier World. . . The Brontes

3 hours of Wallace Shawn-- a trea, but not for the fainthearted

The Designated Mourner - this is a show about the imponderables, and yet we leave it with much — some would say too much — to ponder.. . . Read

a still timely play about a rape victim vanquishing her attacker

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Extremities -Thrills and chills and emotional and legal quandaries! Be prepared for plenty of all in this revival of William Mastrosimone's extremely violent and tense 1980 drama about a rape that turns into a trial of the rapist, and the relationship of the intended victim and her two roommates. - Read More

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A pretty ghost tells her story in a Gilded Age Mansion. . .

Morgan O-Yuki, Geisha of the Gilded Age - A bio-drama that's uniquely site specific in one of the Berkshires' Gilded Age mansions. . .Read More .

You don't have to know Mandarin to enjoy all this "monkey business" at Lincoln Center Summer Festival

Monkey: Journey to the West - There is more than monkey business, although there is lots of that, in this spectacular, reality cartoon re-telling of the classic 100 chapter Chinese novel. . . Read More

Charlie joins Matilda --but not quite as magical fo all ages

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -while the magic of Matilda is in its appeal to adults as well as children, the strongest appeal this time is to the younger generation. . . Read More

Something for pop 7 classical music at Tanglewood's 4th weekend

Mother Nature Helps Tanglewood Enjoy a Glorious July 4th Weekend - Popular artist concert with Jackson Browne followed by Classical music rock star Joshua Bell Read More .

Who says good live theater has to cost an arm and a leg?

Choir Boy - The sheer dramatic and musical power that drives Choir Boy is anything but an obstacle for a theatergoer in search of a very good play Read More

An enduring crowd pleaser in Storckbridge

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The Lion in Winter -The response at the opening night performance of James Goldman's 1966 play proves that the appeal of an evening providing a cross between a dramatic history lesson and a Spamalot-like comedy is undiminished . . . read more