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Review of Dear Liar at the Chester Theatre Company
October 3, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
Jerome Kilty’s Dear Liar is one of two Irish plays being offered in repertory at the Chester Theatre Company in its annual Founders Director’s Production. Directed by Vincent Dowling, who in 1990 founded the company as The Miniature Theatre of Chester, it is a glorious romp into [...]
The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare and Company
Sept. 28, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
With the summer season of Shakespeare plays over, the Founders’ Theatre has for the current production of Jeremy Paul’s “The Secret of Sherlock Holmes” been reconfigured into a proscenium-type theatre with stage spanning the back wall and audience seating replacing the thrust stage area.
Set designer Paulo Seixas’s [...]
Educating Rita, at Berkshire Theatre Festival
Sept. 27, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
That Willy Russell’s “Educating Rita” starring Jonathan Epstein and Tara Franklin, directed by Richard Corley, mounted on a fabulously versatile and detailed set, now again playing at the Unicorn Theatre, would be the icing on the cake on top of an outstanding summer season at the BTF, [...]
James Levine comments on the loss of Luciano Pavarotti
James Levine and Luciano Pavarotti worked together on 139 performances at the Metropolitan Opera. From London, where he is on tour with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Levine had the following to say about Maestro Pavarotti:
“Few singers in the history of the Metropolitan Opera have had the popularity with the general public and the enormous [...]
Photos of Hank Jones and Roberta Gambrini at Tanglewood Jazz Festival
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