Review of Uncle Vanya at Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield

August 12, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall.
How to produce Chekhov’s plays has been controversial ever since, a hundred years ago Stanislavsky at the Moscow Arts Theatre declared them to be tragedies and Chekhov objected to taking them too seriously and insisted they were comedies.
The basic problem, of course, is that they are both, [...]

Review of Blue/Orange at Shakespeare and Company

July 21, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
In “Blue/ Orange”, a three character all male play set in a British psychiatric hospital, playwright Joe Penhall gives us a penetrating look at social problems America also faces, without any real answers, today.

Malcolm Ingram, Le Roy McClain, and Jason Asprey in Blue/Orange at Shakespeare and Company, [...]