How "Streaming" Eased the Summer of My Discontent

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How "Streaming" Eased the Summer of My Discontent

How "Streaming" Eased the Summer of My Discontent

FEATURES
How "Streaming" Eased the Summer of My Discontent

Make Believe--our critic liked the kids better than the grown-ups they became

New York Off-Broadway

Make Believe - In Bss Wohl's new play a shimmering quartet of young performers (all under 14, two of them under 10), kids marking time in their playroom attic while they wait, much too long, for their mom to come home. Read More

Moby Dick-Rehearsed-- hits choppy waters in LA

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Moby Dick - Rehearsed - Even with the Theatricum's considerable playmaking resources and expertise, it's an underwhelming end to an epic tale. Kudos certainly to the Theatricum for taking us out to sea. Would that the waters were smoother. Read More

Topdog/Underdog revived at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox

Berkshire Reviews

Topdog/Underdog - Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize winning play at Shakespeare Company in Lenox Read More

Fall Springs -- the Berkshire Lab's latest musical

Berkshire Reviews

Fall Springs - this musical's story is politically pointed and the acting and music campy enough to make for what is probably the most entertaining evening about hydro fracking that anyone could ever imagine. Read More

Before the Meeting--a world premiere at Williamstown

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Berkshire Reviews

Before the Meeting - Williamstown Theatre Festival's premiere at the intimate Nikos Stage, is a 70-80 minute visit with four addicts prior to their daily 12-step meeting in a church b

Befpre the Meeting-- a world premiere at Williamstown's Nikos Stage

Berkshire Reviews

Before the Meeting - Williamstown Theatre Festival's premiere at the intimate Nikos Stage, is a 70-80 minute visit with four addicts prior to their daily 12-step meeting in a church basement. Read More

The Acting Company pairs Shakespeare and Richard Wright

ew York Off-Broadway

Measure for Measure and Native Son - Descriptive Excerpt: Richard Wright and William Shakespeare are justly praised for their depth and breadth of thought; I wish that in the zeal to focus them on single concepts, these productions didn't reduce their works as much as they do. Read More

Sea Wall/A Life-- A star Driven Broadway Transfer

Sea Wall/A Life on Broadway - It would be nice to see these linked monologues by Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge in an intimate setting. In stead, the actors' star power have now brought it for a limited run to the even larger Hudson Theater on Broadway Read More

Bat Out of Hell -- from hit albums to the musical stage

New York Off-Broadway

Bat Out of Hell: The Musical - this is a rock concert for rock lovers repelled by rock concerts. Read More

An exciting Coriolanus in Central Park

New York Off-Broadway

Coriolanus - This new take on Shakespeare's Roman tragedymay nott please those who come to the Delacorte yearning for an idyllic experience on a summer evening. But for those who truly hunger for a spine-tingling interpretation of this seldom-produced Roman tragedy, director Daniel Sullivan has us experience it at a deeper level and feel it in the time and space of a not-distant future. Read More

Date Me: An OkCupid Experiment - A comedic and complicated view of online dating through one woman’s real lens.

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#Date Me: An OkCupid Experiment - A comedic and complicated view of online dating through one woman’s real lens. While the attention to that detail in both the script and the performance is the most endearing part of the production, it certainly makes a case for the online dating cynic who may not be looking to have their mind changed just yet. . . .Read More

Love Noel The Songs and Letters of Nöel Coward Love Nöel: The Songs and Letters of Nöel Coward - I a delightful 90-minute salute to "The Master,

New York Off-Broadway

Love Nöel: The Songs and Letters of Nöel Coward - In a delightful 90-minute salute to "The Master, Nöel Coward," cabaret favorites Steve Ross and KT Sullivan winnow through a melange of letters and songs to illuminate the man, his friends and his era. As described in this two-hander, he was, "a Renaissance Man who just happened to live in the 20th Century" and Ross and Sullivan are here to celebrate an entire aura of glamour and sophistication . . . Read More