Theater

Amy LeBlanc as Dolly by Kevin T McEneaney If you like singing and love dancing, Hello, Dolly is the place to take your soul for refreshment, entertainment, laughter, and a little sweet sentiment. This play has a long developmental history ...
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Rebecca Brown Adelman as Hamlet by Kevin T McEneaney Perhaps the title above should read Rebecca Brown Adelman resurrects Theresa Rebek’s excellent play Bernhardt/Hamlet (2018) in Rhinebeck at the Center for Performing Arts. Sarah Bernhardt was the first woman to ...
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by Kevin T McEneaney The key to the success of any play lies on the shoulders of actors and the Director. This production directed by Peter Risafi presents a superb version of a timeless classic that has enchanted audiences over ...
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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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