This is one of the finest shows to appear on the Ghent stage and absolutely a must see for anyone who enjoys, or would like to experience, classic late-20th-century situational comedy.
Tag: Cathy Lee-Visscher
THEATRE REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘Pinocchio’ a raucous retelling in the panto tradition
There cannot be a better way to address the political mish-mash we live in outside of this adorable theater in Columbia County.
THEATRE REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘The Cemetery Club’ plays out with potential on a terrific set
“The Cemetery Club” is enjoyable enough and with a few more performances, should jell into the sort of appetizer that makes a season into a delectable dinner party.
THEATRE REVIEW: Mac-Haydn Theatre’s ‘Oklahoma!’ takes a fresh look at a revered classic
If, like me, you’ve had enough of this show, go prepared to be stunned into applause by this stellar production.
THEATRE REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘A View From the Bridge’ the best of the season
The drama is potent and powerful and pleasant to watch in this well-staged, nicely acted edition.
Ghent Playhouse’s ‘Miracle on South Division Street’ describes family meeting, features extraordinary cast
For a play I’ve never heard of to end up a new favorite is a delight to me.
REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’ a cross-dressing fairy tale with wit, music and political barbs
While I could have gone home happier with some truly barbarous barbs, the show still entertained and delighted, and the audience had almost as good a time as the company.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘Clever Little Lies’ at Ghent Playhouse, funny and thoughtful
In a season defined thus far by the shallowness of parody, this play is a mood- and mode-changer, bringing us deeper and more thoughtful theater.
Bits & Bytes: Educators’ symposium at Norman Rockwell Museum; Radius Playwrights Festival; ‘Clever Little Lies’ at the Ghent Playhouse; BioEYES science program
The Radius Playwrights Festival features fully staged readings of the six selected new short plays created by local writers within a 50-mile radius of Great Barrington.
Bits & Bytes: Parade of Lights; ‘Messiah’ sing-in; ‘A Day in the Life of a Girl and Boy’ family day; ‘The Little Mermaid;’ Monica Rizzio at the Egremont Barn
At the Norman Rockwell Museum family day author Will Lach will hold a reading and talk about the books, and have a conversation with model Mary Whalen Leonard, who posed for several of Rockwell’s most beloved paintings.
Bits & Bytes: NAACP awards dinner; W.E.B. Du Bois Falseworkshop; ‘Chicken People’ at Mason Library; Abigail Pogrebin at Knosh & Knowledge; Ghent Playhouse auditions
The Falseworkshop will focus on W.E.B. Du Bois’s global reach as a political thinker and activist, in preparation for the town of Great Barrington’s celebration of Du Bois’s sesquicentennial in 2018.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Mothers and Sons;’ Lino Taglipietra exhibit; student art show; ‘Montgomery Place: An American Arcadia;’ 350Mass Berkshires meeting
The historic property of Montgomery Place in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, part of Bard College since 2016, encompasses over 300 acres and features notable architecture, richly furnished interiors, exceptional vistas, orchards, woodland trails and gardens.
Bits & Bytes: Travel photography workshop; ‘Christians and Jews Under the Muslim Crescent;’ ‘Mothers and Sons’ auditions; ‘Reel Theology’ at Hevreh; ‘The Irish Bridget’
Hazza Abu Rabia is a lecturer of Arabic language and Islamic studies at the University of Hartford’s Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and at Central Connecticut State University.
Bits & Bytes: ‘XXYY;’ Edge editor, publisher speaking at KI luncheon; ‘Once Upon a Mattress;’ Dalton preschool open house; 350Mass Berkshires meeting
‘XXYY’ is a poetic and otherworldly dance-theater event exploring the multiplicities of the gender spectrum while deconstructing the conventional binaries of male and female.
REVIEW: ‘Turn of the Scrooge,’ Pantoloons’ hilarious update of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Unlike other years where the jokes at the expense of politicians, local and national, are hooters, this season’s barbs are blurred by everyone’s sense of what is going on in the country.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Messiah’ sing-in; Tinseliner™ train rides; Ghent Playhouse panto; marionettes at Olana
The Berkshire Bach Players is a seasoned instrumental ensemble of professional musicians including Lucy Bardo on cello and trumpet player Allan Dean along with Miriam Shapiro and Cindy Olgunick on violin, Eric Martin on viola, and Donald Sosin on organ.
REVIEW: “Boeing, Boeing,” a hilarious comic romp
What Director Cathy Lee-Visscher has managed to do is to take something old and familiar and redefine it into something new and familiar at the same time
Bits & Bytes: ‘Boeing, Boeing’ at the Ghent Playhouse; Hillcrest St. Patrick’s celebration; Berkshire HorseWorks workshop; Kirsten Johnson screening; Easter egg decorating at Ventfort Hall
Hillcrest Educational Centers will honor Massachusetts State Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg as its Irish Person of the Year.
Bits & Bytes: ‘The Weir’ at Ghent Playhouse; Matt Pardo at Berkshire Pulse; RSYP open mic; ‘The Brave Little Parrot’ at Camphill Ghent
Pardo has a special connection to Berkshire Pulse: his solo piece “Life.Long” began in the old Berkshire Pulse dance studios.
Bits & Bytes: David Grover at the Whit; Ghent Playhouse auditions
David Grover, former guitarist for Arlo Guthrie, has been performing for children for over 30 years and is often called “the Jerry Garcia of the elementary school set.”
REVIEW: A Grimmly satirical Snow White at Ghent Playhouse
The basic story is familiar and easy. It is the retelling that this company does with political and sexual innuendo, cross-dressing, gender confusion and Walt Disney visuals that makes the difference.
A successful restaging of ‘Heroes’ at Ghent Playhouse
I am thrilled with the newness of this play in Ghent, the excitement of discovery of new things I had not noticed the first time around. All of the participants should clap each other on the back and take personal credit for jobs well done in a play about jobbers who want things done right.