WAMC’s Clarence Fanto speaks with Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer, Artistic Director Tony Simotes, and Company member (and actress in Golda’s Balcony, now on stage) Annette Miller about Othello, Golda’s Balcony, Pinter’s Mirror and much more in this interview that aired Monday. Check it out at WAMC’s website, or listen below.
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Annette Miller is back on stage as Golda Meir in William Gibson’s Golda’s Balcony, playing just two more weeks in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. Her performance has been praised as “involving and enlightening” by Variety and “amazing” by the Boston Globe.
Reviewer Peter Bergman (the North Adams Transcript and the Advocate), who saw Annette as Golda when she originated the role here seven years ago, had the following to say about this summer’s production:
Annette Miller frightens me. Seven years ago she took on the role of Golda Meir and I thought her performance perfect. Now, as part of the Diva Series at Shakespeare and Company, here is Annette Miller once again, reprising Golda Meir and making her ten times more human, fifty times more intimidating and altogether far too real. There is something superhuman in that ability to recreate something and do it even better. Here is no Carol Channing act with exactly the same gestures, inflections and rhythms. Here is life breathing on an enlarged soapbox. (Read the full review)
Golda’s Balcony is on stage through July 3. Buy tickets now. Check out the photos:
Charlotte Salomon’s massive work Leben? Oder Theater? (Life? Or Theatre?) is being displayed in the collection of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.
From the Museum’s website: “In her work Charlotte reaches out to her audience by mingling fantasy and reality. Her family and friends are the actors and have appropriate pseudonyms. Her texts are simple, laced with quotations from German literature. Charlotte also indicates music that increases the dramatic effect. She calls Life? or Theatre? a Singespiel or lyrical drama.”
View the paintings online at the Jewish Historical Museum’s website.
The Actors Rehearse the Story of Charlotte Salomon is the story of a Jewish theatre troupe dramatizing the story of Salomon’s work. It plays through Sunday in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre.
The Actors Rehearse the Story of Charlotte Salomon is now playing (through next Sunday, June 14) in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. It features Penny Kreitzer in a myriad of roles in a true-to-life story about family, the artistic journey and the strength of the human voice. Take a look at this video, created by director Jonathan Rest, for a taste of the power in this one-woman play (written by David Bridel, Penny Kreitzer and Jonathan Rest). Buy tickets now.
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Penny Kreitzer plays 14 characters in The Actors Rehearse the Story of Charlotte Salomon, playing through June 14. Check out the photos below, and head over to the Elayne P. Bernstein to catch the second installment in the Diva Series.
The Actors Rehearse the Story of Charlotte Salomon is written by David Bridel, Penny Kreitzer and Jonathan Rest. Directed by Jonathan Rest. Get tickets now.
The reviews are in for Tina Packer’s performance in Shirley Valentine—which plays just twice more this weekend (this afternoon and Sunday) and once more in September. You don’t want to miss it…but don’t take our word for it:
On every level Tina Packer…is Shirley Valentine. That was made abundantly clear last night in a stunning performance that earned a standing ovation. A slam dunk, total knockout. Wow.”
(Read the complete review at Berkshirefinearts.com)
One of the most charming and touching Shirley Valentines to grace a stage is Shakespeare & Company’s enormously talented and ever youthful Tina Packer.”
(Read the complete review at CurtainUp.com)
Shirley Valentine is part of the Diva Series, limited runs of three special solo performances. Get tickets now.
Shirley Valentine is the irrepressible woman-next-door who escapes a world of stagnancy and discovers independence during one fateful holiday to Greece. Tina Packer reprises her role as Shirley for four performances only this May (and one in September) as part of the Diva Series. Written by Willy Russell, directed by Jenna Ware.
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