5.16.08
BOB DYLAN BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE features BIOGRAPHER SETH ROGOVOY
AT CLUB HELSINKI, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2008
5.15.08
Film Festival highlights cultural weekend in Berkshires
THE ROGOVOY REPORT, 5.16.08
5.11.08
What I'm Reading
Martin Amis, Bob Dylan books, Richard Price
5.11.08
How I'm Feeling
Need a replacement for lower back
5.8.08
Weekend Highlights May 9-11
THE ROGOVOY REPORT
5.6.08
[PRESS RELEASE] Pinchas Zukerman daughter Natalia to headline at Club Helsinki
Coming to Great Barrington, Mass., nightclub on May 18
5.2.08
Singer/composer Jenny Scheinman at MASS MoCA is weekend's top pick
Preview by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.25.08
[FILM REVIEW] Shine a Light (The Rolling Stones)
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.17.08
[FILM REVIEW] The Counterfeiters
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
7.1.07
[THEATER REVIEW] MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at SHAKESPEARE & CO.
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING
3.17.08
GOLEM returns to Club Helsinki for PURIM this Friday night
Press Release from Club Helsinki
3.8.08
CHEESE TO BE SPOKEN OF AND EATEN ON MARCH 30
part of BERKSHIRE LIVING's REST OF THE STORY series
2.25.08
Richard Thompson, America, and Madeline Peyroux added to Mahaiwe lineup this spring
Mahaiwe press release
2.25.08
Dennis Prager to make the case for Judaism at Berkshire South
Simulcast of lecture at NY's 92nd St. Y
2.24.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Urban vs. Pastoral Music at the Mahaiwe courtesy of Close Encounters with Music
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.24.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Urban vs. Pastoral Music at the Mahaiwe courtesy of Close Encounters with Music
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
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[THEATER REVIEW] ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
8.10.07
Antony and Cleopatra
(Founders' Theater, Lenox, Mass.)
BY FRANK RIZZO/VARIETY
A Shakespeare & Company presentation of a play in two acts by William Shakespeare. Directed by Michael Hammond.
Cleopatra - Tina Packer
Antony - Nigel Gore
Octavius Caesar - Craig Baldwin
Charmian - Christianna Nelson
Agrippa - Michael Solomon
Enorbarbus - Walton Wilson
It's not just the casting of Shakespeare & Company's plump, sixtysomething a.d. as queen of denial that sinks its production of "Antony and Cleopatra" like a bad barge. After all, many famous actresses of a certain age have tried their hand as a more mature Cleo -- and other even more unlikely roles in the Bard's canon -- and some have brought new perspectives to the parts. But here, a miscast Cleopatra is just one of the production's many problems -- some underscoring recurring deficiencies at the popular tourist attraction in the Berkshires, now in its 30th year.
Many of Shakespeare & Co.'s Bard stagings (the theater also does non-Shakespearean works) have a similar feel to them: Costumes are seemingly assembled from the racks (here, the fashion is tie-dye mixed with leather and gilt); stock set pieces have a recycled look; and the extreme thrust stage certainly challenges helmers -- but doesn't necessarily have to defeat them. After all, it speaks to the kind of raw theater style in which Shakespeare's work was originally presented and can be helpful in quick-changing locales.
That been-here/saw-that feeling is not such a distraction when the show is competently done. But when major elements of a production are off, as they are here, it raises larger issues.
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