2015 Season Archive

Support for the 2015 Season was generously provided by Joy: All Things Underthings, The Barn Restaurant and Tavern and Manchester Designer Outlets

Starring
MARINDA ANDERSON
JANIE BROOKSHIRE
AVERY GLYMPH
ELAIN GRAHAM
CHANTAL JEAN PIERRE
CHARLES SOCARIDES

Scenic Design by ANDREW BOYCE
Costume Design by SYDNEY MARESCA
Lighting Design by MICHAEL GIANNITTI
Sound Design by RYAN RUMERY

In this award winning play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage weaves an intricate tapestry of the joys, sorrows, tragedy, and triumph of a gifted but lonely African American seamstress in early Twentieth-Century Manhattan as she negotiates the choice between a love that is accepted and one that is true.
AGES 14 and up

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PRESS

Peter Bergman- Berkshire Bright Focus Review

Alex Brown- SevenDaysVT

Gail M. Burns & Larry Murray- Berkshire On Stage

Starring
CARLOS DENGLER
DANA BERGER
BRIAN DYKSTRA
CHRIS EDWARDS
KIRK JACKSON
JENNY ROHN
OLIVERWADSWORTH

Scenic Design by DEB BOOTH
Costume Design by DAVID TOSER
Lighting Design by MICHAEL GIANNITTI
Sound Design by JANE SHAW
Fight Choreography UNCLE DAVE’S FIGHT HOUSE

The wit of Oscar Wilde meets the cunning of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when Wilde brings his dear friend, Lillie Langtry, to Baker Street. Only Holmes can solve the case, going so far as to disguise himself as an early version of Lady Bracknell from Wilde’s latest play, The Importance of Being Forthright, while Watson falls head-over-heels for the Jersey Lily and a wicked professor attempts to bring the Crown to its knees.

NEWSROOM

“”It’s about as intelligent, fanciful, and witty a Holmes as you can find on the stage anywhere this summer.” Telly Halkias  Manchester Journal

“Dorset’s “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lilly” lays waste the claim that theater must be silly schlock to be delightful light summer entertainment. This was fun.”- Rutland Herald- Sherlock

Sherlock Holmes Time Lapse Load In Video

Sherlock Holmes Preview Rutland Herald  by James Lowe

Berkshire On Stage feature Preview on Sherlock

Great BLOG and interviews with Sherlock Cast and Dina Janis on More Theatre Talk

Broadway World Preview for Sherlock

Starring

MARY BACON
MICHAEL HAYDEN
JENNIFER HARMON
JONATHAN HOGAN

Scenic Design by NARELLE SISSONS
Costume Design by BARBARA BELL
Lighting Design by MICHAEL GIANNITTI
Sound Design by RYAN RUMERY

Broadway’s new romantic comedy from the writer of Doubt and Moonstruck- a love letter to Ireland. In this acclaimed new work,  playwright John Patrick Shanley tells the compassionate, delightful tale about how it’s never too late to take a chance on love. The “Irish Moonstruck” that won a Tony Nomination for Best Play! Shanley is one of our most celebrated playwrights, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for his play Doubt and an Academy Award for his film Moonstruck.  He is also the screenwriter and director of the cult classic Joe Versus the Volcano.

NEWSROOM

“Couples were moving closer to each other. Hands were held. Whispers exchanged. After the rousing, standing ovation, the same scene flooded the parking lot: couples holding hands and leaning in to each other as the buzz overflowed into the starlit Vermont sky.”  Telly Halkias/ Manchester Journal

“Jointly this team has forged stage magic that is so lush and at times so subtle that the miraculous moments of magical realism emerge like the birth of an elephant: complete before you realize they started. Rubin has taken the tenderness and the humor in Shanley’s script, mixed them with clotted cream and created totally believable characters on the Dorset stage” review in Berkshire Bright Focus

“”At Dorset Playhouse, director John Gould Rubin has made the most of four exceptional actors. Rubin consistently brings scenes to an emotional peak without ever signaling that a climb is under way. It’s like coming to the crest of a hill and seeing a sudden vista.” Alex Brown/SevenDaysVT

Talking to Farmers- Outside Mullingar Project interviews local farmers in the region about their love of the land.

Jim Lowe from Rutland Herald interviews John Gould Rubin for this Mullingar Preview

WAMC Joe Donahue interviews Artistic Director Dina Janis on the Roundtable

New York Times features Mullingar in its 50 Essential Summer Festivals

VT Digger feature on upcoming Mullingar Premiere

Berkshire On Stage preview for Mullingar

Starring

DAVID LANSBURY
HAYLEY BOND
BEN PELTESON
JD TAYLOR
ANNIE MEISELS
CAROLE MONFERDINI

Scenic Design by KEVIN JUDGE
Sound Design by IEN DeNIO
Costume Design by GREGORY GAYLE
Lighting Design by MICHAEL GIANNITTI
Fight Choreography UNCLE DAVE’S FIGHT HOUSE \

A rising Hollywood star accepts the role of Hamlet at New York’s Shakespeare in the Park and his agent thinks he’s gone daft. Why trade a fluffy, big ­money TV role for dusty old Shakespeare? Leave it to the ghost of actor John Barrymore, the quintessential Hamlet of the 20th century, to give him his answer. A love letter to the theatre! Paul Rudnick­ one of our pre-­eminent humorists known for being a regular contributor to The New Yorker.

Review “Dorset Theatre Festival is closing a most successful season — appropriately — with dessert. Paul Rudnick’s delicious 1991 comedy “I Hate Hamlet” opened in a thoroughly delightful production Friday at the Dorset Playhouse — one that was well-cast, fast-paced and ridiculously funny.”JimLowe/ Rutland Herald/Times Argus

Review “So go see this play, because you will not only leave with a belly ache, but be able to laugh about that, too.”- Telly Halkias/Manchester Journal

John Barrymore’s Ghost teaches Hamlet – Rutland Herald/Jim Lowe Preview of I Hate Hamlet

Broadway World preview of I Hate Hamlet

Berkshire On Stage highlights I Hate Hamlet

Starring

KIM JOHNSON TURNER
DOUG RYAN
NICK DILEONARDI
CODY SULLIVAN
MATTHEW McFADDEN
EVANGELINE NEUHART
SEAN-PATRICK O’BRIEN
ANDREW DUFF

NEWSROOM

Rutland Herald Tom Sawyer great preview of Tom Sawyer with Interviews

Broadway World preview of Tom Sawyer