Theater

Final Bow P.G. Woodhouse’s 1926 adaptation of Ferenc Molnár’s 1924 comedy The Play at the Castle (an absurdist play possiblyly influenced by the uncompleted 1922 masterpiece novel The Castle by Franz Kafka) titled The Play’s the Thing is now playing ...
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Final bow Who says they died decades ago? Both of them were at the Bard Sosnoff Theater bar last night drinking a nightcap. They live on despite rumors of their death, for if you have the gift of laughter—one becomes ...
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Sophia Barbatsuly as Aphrodite by Kevin T McEneaney As a student, I had studied classical Greek, but gave it up due to my fifty-hour work schedule, yet I did acquire a deep aesthetic respect for Greek by reading Euclid, Alcman, ...
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by Kevin T McEneaney John Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt: A Parable won five Tony Awards in 2005. The play begins with endearing humor about the Roman Catholic Church, then gradually veers into oblique critique via parable. The play demands consummate ...
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Freud’s Last Session at Theatreworks in New Milford offers superb acting in a two-person heavyweight drama: an elderly Sigmund Freud, played with biting wit by Francis A. Daley, duels verbally in a visit from Oxford don C.S. Lewis, played with ...
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by Kevin T McEneaney Yes, life, theater, and Christmas can be wonderful! The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck is producing a stage version of Frank Capra’s 1946 classic film, which was a flop at the box office, yet is ...
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by Kevin T McEneaney The rollicking punk musical Kinky Boots (2012) by Cindy Lauper is a sold-out sensation at The Center for Performing Arts. Based on the 2005 British film of that name, set in the disappearing Northampton industrial landscape, ...
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Samuel Beckett by Kevin T McEneaney The Beckett Trilogy (dramatic monologue excerpts from the novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and the Unnameable) performed by Irish actor Conor Lovett will convince you that Samuel Beckett was (and remains) the greatest writer of ...
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Partriarcho, Crispel, Olson, Sheehy, Boice, Haines, Bradley, Warren, France by Kevin T McEneaney Last year the theater world lost Stephen Sondheim, one of the giants of musical theater. Sondheim was especially gifted in creating both intimate and broadly sweeping conversations ...
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by Kevin T McEneaney There is a crisis in this country concerning the arts: most people want stories, drama, and poetry to be realistic, aligned with truthful portrayal of life. Such perception strips the arts of essential tools: Allegory, Parable, ...
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