Theater

There are reasons that TheatreWorks in New Milford was chosen as Best Small Theater in Connecticut by Connecticut Magazine in 2017. This intimate, yet not too small, company is a true community theater that produces well -known plays with non-Equity casts. Most of its actors have theater educations or training, many appear regularly at other community-based venues, some act in small, Off-Off Broadway shows. All are assured on stage.

There is the temptation to suggest, with the #Me Too movement in the headlines and an increased focus on gender inequality, that this is the perfect moment to stage “A Doll’s House.” In truth, there have been countless “perfect” moments for Henrik Ibsen’s play since it debuted in Denmark in 1879. The play’s consideration of marriage and a woman’s place within it were deeply shocking in the 19th century. More than a century later, though no longer shocking, the writing remains deeply insightful and thought provoking. 

Quickly moving to reinvigorate Sharon Playhouse after last summer’s disappointing season, the new production team of Robert Levinstein and Alan M-L Wager have plans to make the theater a year round entertainment venue.
They will launch a continuing series of monthly “Cocktails and Cabaret” on Jan. 13, with a 5 to 7 p.m. show in the Bok Gallery of the playhouse. Guest headliners Kirby and Bev Ward will use “The Great American Songbook” as their inspiration for a late afternoon of singing and dancing.

If you Google “Murder Takes a Holiday,” you’ll come across a couple of news articles with that headline from 2002, saying the murder rate in New York City declined in January of that year.
I mention that only because in “Murder Takes a Holiday,” the comedy-thriller by Tim Kelly showing at the Sherman Playhouse this month, the murder rate rises sharply. “Murder Comes Along for Some Fun” might have been a better title.