Williamstown Theatre Festival
Review of Autumn Garden at Williamstown Theatre Festival
August 16, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
Lillian Hellman’s “Autumn Garden” at Williamstown’s Festival Theatre is a perfectly marvelous play, probably atypical in being an ensemble play and very unlike Hellman’s better known highly plotted plays, but in her opinion and that of this reviewer, her best. (John Benjamin Hickey & Allison Janney [...]
Review of The Corn is Green at Williamstown Theatre Festival
August 2, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall.
There is so much to praise in the absolutely faultless production of Emlyn Williams’ The Corn is Green at the Williamstown Theatre Festival that it is challenging to know where to start or what words can convey just where the magic lies.
The play itself is a beautiful [...]
Review of Blithe Spirit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
July 19, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”, now playing in a zesty, zany and fast-paced production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival has a great deal going for it.
To begin with the set—it is magnificent, a beauty to behold that, without calling attention to it, has the multiple entrances and exits [...]
Villa America at Williamstown Theatre Festival
July 13, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
Playwright Crispin Whittell’s “Villa America,” although interesting and at times well acted, is, regretably, a flawed script that fails to deliver the“Making it New” life style that Gerald and Sara Murphy briefly (and successfully) established on the French Riviera before the spot was fashionable. This Williamstown Theatre [...]
The Front Page at Williamstown Theatre Festival
July 5 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
Kay Walbye & Jason Butler Harner & Amanda Leigh Cobb in The Front Page at Williamstown; photo by Joan Marcus
Williamstown Theatre Festival opened its season on the Main Stage with a smashing, fast-paced, and meticulously mounted and costumed production of Hecht and Macarthur’s 1928 farce masterpiece, The Front [...]
