A New Act
(May 22, 2025) The Nantucket Performing Arts Center creates a new theater experience.
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Nina Hellman shines in Nantucket Performing Arts Center’s debut production
(July 10, 2025) Plays don’t come any more autobiographical than Heidi Schreck’s “What the Constitution Means to Me,” a highly personal riff on her experience as a 15-year-old competitive debater in the late 1980s, when she toured VFW halls throughout the West, hoping to earn enough prize money to pay for college.
I saw an early version of this brave, confessional piece at a tiny East Village theater in 2017, two years before its quirky brilliance vaulted it to Broadway, where it garnered two Tony nominations (for best actress and best play).
Soon after, Schreck filmed a performance for Amazon Prime, where it’s viewable still.
The Mirror Image: Actors on Interpreting The Same Role — Flash Talks
Anastasia Pan’kova, She in The Swan Princess (Russian Production)
Regina Aquino, She in The Swan Princess (U.S. Production)
Dmitry Plokhov, the Professor in Penitence (Russian Production)
Keith Randolph Smith, the Professor in Penitence (U.S. Production)
Amanda Charlton, Director
Williamstown Theatre Festival Blog — It’s Jewdy Show
Director, Amanda Charlton, and writer/actor, Judy Gold, discuss It’s Jewdy’s Show.
BWW Review: CRY IT OUT Concludes Merrimack Rep’s 40th Season
Merrimack Repertory Theatre concludes its 40th season with Molly Smith Metzler’s Cry It Out, a delightful human comedy that surfs along on the waves of a burgeoning friendship between a pair of mothers of newborn babies, while also acknowledging the myriad challenges that lurk beneath the surface.…
Director Amanda Charlton establishes a pace and blocks the movement in a way that feels organic and keeps our interest, even though the action never leaves the yard. There are comings and goings, as well as numerous references to other people and gestures to indicate places offsite, that make the world of the play feel larger….
…With skilled direction and solid ensemble work, the Merrimack Rep production is cause for celebrating, not crying.