Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Shakespeare & Company
Theater Review: “The Chairs” — Not a Full House
At the very least, Ionesco’s drama about the unreality of the world should produce shudders as well as chuckles.
Theater Review: “The Children” — Scientists Under Pressure
The production strikes a fine balance between comedy and seriousness, public and private concerns, bringing a complex and compelling play to vibrant life.
Theater Review: “The Waverly Gallery” — A Powerful Look into a Descent into Dementia
A splendid production of an impressive early effort from the talented writer Kenneth Lonergan.
Theater Review: “Naked” and “Hir” — Identity Meltdown
Taylor Mac and Pirandello share the same goal: reveal the deadening vacuity at the heart of bourgeois society and the male ego.
Theater Review: “Mothers and Sons” — An Elegant, Affecting Production
Mothers and Sons is one of veteran playwright Terrence NcNally’s finest works.
Theater Review: “We The People,” “The Member of the Wedding,” and “Creditors”
Three theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.
Theater Review: “Creditors” — A Memorable Staging of a Classic
August Strindberg’s Creditors turns out to be a play that speaks chillingly to our time.
Theater Review: “Morning After Grace” — A Cause for Celebration
It is heart-warming that, in these “worst of times,” playwrights like Carey Crim are working quietly to give us a look at new beginnings with humor and tenderness and hope.
Theater Review: Shakespeare & Co’s “The Wharton Comedies” — Polished Storytelling
Veteran Shakespeare & Company members Corinna May, Diane Prusha, and David Joseph contribute satisfyingly polished performances.