The Mac-Haydn summer stock theater of Chatham, New York, performs the Gershwin musical Crazy For You, starring Colin Pritchard and Emily Thompson.
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Doctor Atomic's Explosive Opera
Doctor Atomic is an opera of the Manhattan Project and the scientists, including Oppenheimer, who created the atomic bomb, as reviewed by Scientific American.
Davis Advertising and YOU!
Ken Gagne makes the leap from stage and screen to YouTube in this online commercial for Worcester-based Davis Advertising.
The Stage Is Alive
Welcome to the holiday season! I hope everyone survived American Thanksgiving and Black Friday. I'm taking the holidays off from performing so that I can instead be in the audience of the many wonderful shows that open this time of year. Already I've seen My Fair Lady, The Importance of Being Earnest, Murder in the…
THAT'S the Broadway Melody!
Emily Thompson, Andrew Chartier, Colin Pritchard, and Kelly Shook star in the Mac-Haydn Theatre's production of Singin' in the Rain.
It's Better in the Original Klingon
Courtesy TrekToday.com comes the news that Patrick Stewart will star in a modern-day filmed adaptation of The Merchant of Venice. Captain Picard in Las Vegas reciting William Shakespeare?… Well, two out of three ain't bad. I have a love-hate relationship with the Bard — he almost kept me from graduating from high school — but…
Another Op'nin', Another Show
My first musical performance was in Cole Porter's Anything Goes. It wasn't for another 13 years — Kiss Me, Kate, opening tonight at the country's second oldest community theater company — that I again performed the works of this prolific composer. So today seemed timely for me to finally watch Kevin Kline portray Porter's life…
Move Like a Butterfly
It's generally agreed, even within the annals of this blog, that a story's source material — be it book, play, or film — will almost always prove superior to any new medium to which it is adapted. I witnessed that gulf this weekend, when I saw a live theater version of the 1973 film The…