Jeffrey Borak
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Jeffrey Borak is The Eagle's theater critic.
'Secret Hour,' the 2021 Next Act! New Play Summit, is having its world premiere at theREP’s Capital Repertory Theatre Jan. 27 through Feb. 19. Opening night is Jan. 31.
Looking back at theater in the Berkshires in 2022, Jeffrey Borak highlights some of his favorite moments and looks forward to what next year will bring. But he also asks: "If theater artists build it, will audiences come?"
"It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" returns to Hartford Stage for a second year and the production has lost none of its antic playfulness and invention. If anything, the show feels tighter, crisper, as the actors, scripts in hand, move with breathless energy from one standing microphone to the next.
This year, the Austen cycle comes full circle. “Miss Bennet …” returns for a series of performances Friday, Dec. 16 evening through Sunday, Dec. 18 in Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre.
These performances are dedicated to the late Robert Lohbauer, a veteran Shakespeare & Company actor and armory supervisor, who died in November after a long illness, and his wife, company costume designer, director and shop manager, Govane Lohbauer, who has designed the costumes for all the Austen presentations.
This production is at its most sublime when it is dancing. Happily for us, “Hairspray” spends a good deal of time dancing. Stunning.
Theatre critic Jeffrey Borak says theREP's production of "The Wizard of Oz" is "just what you want for the holiday season."
Washington County playwright Warren Schultz’ well-intentioned “Grant’s Ghost” may be more notable for the play it could have been than the one-dimensional affair that thundered awkwardly across Hubbard Hall’s Mainstage stage this past weekend.
Barrington Stage Company's Artistic Director Alan Paul sees Barrington Stage Company as an incubator for new work, especially musicals (“give quirky young musical writers a chance,” he’s been advised by Broadway composer-lyricist William Finn, who supervises BSC’s Musical Theatre Lab); for revisiting older musicals and making them fresh, in subtle and nuanced ways, for contemporary audiences.
A stage adaptation of the classic 1939 film musical comes to the stage Friday, Nov. 18 at theREP’s Capital Repertory Theatre, where it is scheduled to run through Dec. 24.
