See you on the aisle
Greetings Blogosphere — The theater critic you love to hate is taking the plunge into the world of Blogs and Bloggers. I’ve been the Berkshire Eagle’s theater critic and entertainment editor since...
View ArticleReview: Cohoes Music Hall ‘Hair’ production anything but bright, breezy
I still remember the rush sitting in a back row in the orchestra of the then Biltmore Theatre (now Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre) watching the Broadway company of “Hair!” It was...
View ArticleReview roundup: What you’ve missed in the Berkshires
Summer has officially begun, and the local summer theater scene is in full swing. Catch up on what you have missed on the Berkshire stages: Truth lights up a stage in ‘Cassandra Speaks’ – Berkshire...
View ArticleBorak responds to Barrington Stage Company ‘nonsense’ over ‘Fiddler on the...
With regard to all this “Fiddler on the Roof” nonsense with Barrington Stage Company, first let me thank those of you who have expressed your support of my work and that includes Eagle colleague...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Swan’
Here’s a taste of my latest review of ”The Swan,” the second production in Chester Theatre Company’s season of uncommon love stories … Love has the ability to transform; so have said poets and...
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Can’t let ‘Hedda Gabler,’‘In the Heights’ slip through the cracks
Roxanna Hope and John Patrick Hayden in ‘Hedda Gabler’ at the Hartford Stage. Every now and then a review slips through the cracks — not often, but on occasion. (I’m NOT going to go into the reasons...
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One month into my 28th year as The Eagle’s entertainment editor
As colleagues retire, staff people come and go at the cultural organizations I work with, I find myself thinking about the seismic shift in the cultural landscape since I came to The Berkshire Eagle...
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A Mother’s Day to remember
So there we were on a Sunday afternoon in downtown Schenectady, N.Y. — this past Sunday, as a matter of fact; Mother’s Day — my wife and I and another couple looking for a place to have dinner before...
View ArticleChanges in the Chester Theatre
Vinent Dowling believed every town should have a professional theater. Thus, the miniature Theatre of Chester, which he founded in 1990 with H. Newan Marshy. Vincent ran Chester through 1995 and...
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Farewell to Charles Bonenti
Were it not for Charies Bonenti I would not be here at The Berkshire Eagle. Charles chaired the search committee that had been formed to find a replacement for the Eagle’s first entertainment editor,...
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