Williamstown Theater Festival

Theater Review: “We The People,” “The Member of the Wedding,” and “Creditors”

August 16, 2018
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Three theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.

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Theater Review: “And No More Shall We Part” — Facing Mortality

August 14, 2016
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This is a beautifully acted but grim 70 minutes of theater, a no-frills look at the dynamics of a struggle about life and death.

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Theater Review: “The Rose Tattoo” — A Spectacular Production from the Williamstown Theatre Festival

July 4, 2016
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This superb production offers audiences a chance to discover or rediscover an American classic.

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Fuse Theater Review: A Glitzy, But Empty, “June Moon”

July 7, 2014
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June Moon is a piece of satirical fluff with 27 characters, lots of piano playing, and a half-dozen memorable lines.

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Culture Vulture: When the Revolution is Over

August 4, 2010
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By Helen Epstein After the Revolution by Amy Herzog. Directed by Carolyn Cantor. Staged by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA, July 21 through August 1 (closed). Long before the invention of psychotherapy, long before writer William Faulkner wrote “The past is never dead. It is not even past,” the Greeks mined family history for…

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