King Lear, one of William Shakespeare’s greatest plays, is now running at TheaterWorks in New Milford, CT, with a superb cast of superior actors under the lean and keen direction…
by Kevin T McEneaney This past weekend, the Theater and Performance Program at Bard College conducted a Mainstage production of Puntila and Matti, His Hired Man (1948) by Bertolt Brecht,…
by Kevin T McEneaney PlaywrightKen Ludwig has written two dozen plays plus a few musicals. A Comedy of Tenorsoffers behind-the-curtain satire on hyperventilating tenors more immersed in their private lives…
by Kevin T McEneaney A new Giulio Cesare production by George Frideric Handel (1724) at Hudson Hall by R.B. Schlather with the early music ensemble Ruckus, sung in Italian with…
Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet were William Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime. For perhaps misogynist ambiance, The Taming of the Shrew was his most often performed play in…
by Kevin T McEneaney Emilia Bassano Lanier was the first English woman to publish a book of poems in England. The poems were devoutly religious and genteel, politely criticizing male…
MasterVoices presents Blind Injustice, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, Monday, February 3, 2025. Credit Photo: Erin Baiano by Kevin T McEneaney In the MasterVoices Series under the…
by Kevin T McEneaney Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest addresses the same theme as Tennessee Williams’ play Suddenly Last Summer (1958): mistreatment of people in…
by Kevin T McEneaney You may have seen Hamlet by William Shakespeare; you may have studied it in school. You are aware that Hamlet is considered one of the greatest…
by Kevin T McEneaney There’s a bright, speeding comet in the neighborhood and if you don’t look up The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck this weekend, you will miss…