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Williamstown Theatre Festival will not offer a summer season in 2026
5+ hour, 54+ min ago (496+ words) WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS. " The Williamstown Theatre Festival announced it is going from annual productions to a biennial schedule. Earlier this week, it released a press release stating, "Today, the Festival launched a new long-term artistic model designed to build on its…...
‘Murder for Two’ at The Rep is a Christmas comedy-musical-murder mystery
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (560+ words) ALBANY, N.Y. " At one time or another writers will say about their creation, "This play is like a child to me." It's always sincerely said, but when Joe Kinosian, the co-writer, composer and performer in "Murder For Two: the Holiday Edition…...
‘As You Like It’ at Skidmore College
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (550+ words) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. " Who knew Shakespeare's Forest of Arden was located in the Adirondacks? Dennis Schebetta, that's who. He is the director of "As You Like It," opening at Skidmore College on Friday. Schebetta says he wants the play to have…...
‘The Man in the Brown Suit’ at Curtain Call Theatre is uninspired Agatha Christie
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (562+ words) LATHAM, N.Y. " Agatha Christie was the most popular writer of mysteries in the world. However, the biggest mystery surrounding her work "The Man in the Brown Suit" is how it survived 100 years. The work began life as a novel in 1924, made…...
‘Joan’ at Barrington Stage is a shallow biography of Joan Rivers
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (176+ words) PITTSFIELD, MASS. " My first impression of "Joan," a play about Joan Rivers playing at Barrington Stage Company, was that it felt like a juke box musical without any music. The assumption rang true after reading the biography of playwright Daniel…...
‘fuzzy’ a small musical with a big heart Is original fun
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (124+ words) PITTSFIELD, MASS. " "fuzzy," a small musical with a huge heart is, without question, the most original piece of theater offered in this area in quite a while. Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA is giving the world premiere a well-deserved,…...
‘Mary Jane’ at Bridge Street Theatre is poetry on stage
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (122+ words) CATSKILL, N.Y. " Some plays are like novels. They are complex, wide in scope and epic in nature. Others, like "Mary Jane," playing through Sunday at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, are more like poems. They are gentle, mood evoking and intensely…...
‘Bank Job’ at Curtain Call Theatre finds humor in ineptitude
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (125+ words) LATHAM, N.Y. " Artists everywhere are contemplating what type of art they should create in changing, uncertain times.Local actor Kevin O'Toole asked himself that question and his answer was, "What would I like to see?" This is one reason he is…...
‘Shucked’ is a pun-filled musical about corn
10+ mon, 2+ day ago (121+ words) SCHENECTADY, N.Y. " There is a strong temptation to start a review of "Shucked" with a pun. Preferably a bad pun. However, if you are like me and delight in terrible puns this is the show for you."Shucked" delivers on puns,…...
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