Curtainup Founder & Editor Elyse Sommer's Epilogue -- I've passed the torch for reviewing and editing new theater productions on and off-Broadway and elsewhere. However, I'll continue to sound off here with my take on Live and Onscreen Entertainment. As for Curtainup's extensive content since 1996-- it's all sill available at www.curtainup.com

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Currently at Berkshire Theaters



See How They Run
See How They Run - Barrington Stage's leave-them-laughing Main Stage finale for Summer 2012, is sublimely silly, superbly timed and performed . . . Read More



Homestead Crossing
Homestead Crossing - In her opening night welcoming speech the artistic director suggested that since this is a co-production with three other theater companies, viewers might want to see it again and again. Despite good dialogue and acting, this Albee-ish "real yet unreal comedy is hardly new and memorable enough to visit again and again . . . Read More

Thursday, August 9, 2012

A Magical revival

Into The Woods
Into The Woods - How great that we are invited quite literally into the woods, as spectacularly conceived by co-designers John Lee Beatty and Soutra Gilmour. There we experience all the things that the Brothers Grimm didn’t tell us about Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and those ever-so charming princes. . . . Read More