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.
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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: In Ghent Playhouse’s ‘Don Juan, the libertine,’ comic elements come first
As in any good Moliere play, the comic elements come first and this play is not averse to the physical and psychological silliness that makes his plays work well.
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: ‘The Father’ at the Ghent Playhouse a fine job with a difficult play, subject
Kudos to the theater company for taking on such an unusual play about such a difficult topic.
THEATRE REVIEW: Once again ‘Our Town,’ this time with new life
Every once in a while, something happens to transform this play and bring it back to its origins and, when that happens, as it did on stage at the Ghent Playhouse, it transforms me and my feelings about the play.
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: ‘Guitar’ exhibit; ‘Art from Farm to Table;’ FilmWorks Forum; ‘True West’ at Ghent Playhouse
‘Art from Farm to Table’ includes depictions and interpretations of landscapes, buildings, farm life, flowers, vegetables, insects and animals–everything found in an agricultural environment that might, or might not, end up on a table.
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
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.