What elevates An Iliad beyond the routine is MaConnia Chesser’s dazzling performance as The Poet.
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Theater Review: “4000 Miles” — A Perceptive Look at the Generation Gap
4000 Miles is charming, insightful, and moving, an enjoyable anthropological study of contemporary American life across the generations.
Fuse News Quick Picks — Berkshire Theater Best Bets
Two fine new plays that create deeply absorbing drama from stories in the headlines.
Theater Preview: “The How and the Why” — Fiercely Intelligent Women in Conflict
“I was/am struck by the women in The How and the Why. I hadn’t seen them onstage before. Nor had I quite heard from them before.”
Theater Review: Shakespeare & Co’s “The Servant of Two Masters” — An Old Farce, Refreshed
Director Jenna Ware’s adaptation (a world premiere) of Carlo Goldoni’s inspired zaniness puts a delightfully distinctive spin on a classic of clowning.
Theater Review: Shakespeare & Co Mounts a Powerful Staging of “Mother Courage”
Olympia Dukakis makes good on her desire to evoke the weakness the indomitable Mother Courage fights so hard to cover up: the actress conveys the highs and lows of this gargantuan character with enormous power.
Theater Review: Two Plays Chronicle the Lives of Pioneering Women
Two Berkshire theaters are offering one-woman shows this summer. Both scripts feature intelligent, frank, and charismatic women. Both productions star gifted and seasoned actors.
Theater Review: The Venetian Twins — Commedia dell’arte Done Hilariously Right
While by no means the headiest permutation of commedia dell’arte, Shakespeare & Company’s production of THE VENETIAN TWINS is skillful as anything a commedia enthusiast might hope to see.
Fuse Theater Review: Shakespeare in Paris
The production is set in France of the 1920s and artfully combines evocations of both Paris and the Forest of Arden: The city of lights is represented by miniature versions of famous landmarks: the Arc de Triomphe; Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower — that twinkle at night and serve as props as well as set.
Theater Review: Very Fond Memories of Water
This is a highly satisfying evening of light theater that provokes its audience to bursts of recognition, laughter and sorrow in quick succession.