theatre reviews 
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10/9/19
A Chilling Play Grapples With How We Are All Connected to Slavery
by Bruce Chadwick
Can you shake off American history?
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8/20/19
Romantic Angst in the 1950s Drought Stricken Midwest of The Rainmaker
by Bruce Chadwick
Would the old magic of the charlatan rainmaker still be there? Would the powerful grip of the old film still drown its audience in emotion?
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7/25/19
Can You Ever Tame the Shrew? Is She Really the Shrew?
by Bruce Chadwick
This Taming of the Shrew is a madcap romp through history, literature and the woods. It is a lot of fun.
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7/16/19
Delightful but Dizzying Romp as the 17th Century Meets the 1950s
by Bruce Chadwick
There is merriment galore in this new production of William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, that just opened at the Shakespeare & Co. theater in Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshires.
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5/28/19
Edwardian England’s My Fair Lady is Fairly Wonderful
by Bruce Chadwick
They will have you dancing all night, and adoring it.
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