Sherry Shameer Cohen is an award winning blogger and parachute journalist who is always looking for more challenging work. Her articles and photos have appeared in Connecticut Magazine, Greenwich Magazine, Stamford Plus, The Advocate, Greenwich Time, The Minuteman, Connecticut Jewish Ledger, The Jewish Chronicle, The Jewish Press, The New Jewish Voice, and various daytime magazines. She has stage managed, designed flyers, programs and props and reviewed theatre for the Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Theater Inform and New England Entertainment Digest. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Ken, and her two little drama kings, Alexander Seth Cohen and Jonathan Ross Cohen.
 BWW Interviews: Sven Ortel, Master Projection Designer
May 18, 2013
It's not your imagination. There are more projections at the theatre. Are they just glorified PowerPoint slides? Not at all. Sven Ortel, the projection designer, explains it all to you.
 BWW Reviews: THE DINING ROOM at Westport Country Playhouse
May 7, 2013
What's on the menu? Nostalgia and Change
 BWW Reviews: 8-Track, The Sounds of the 70's
April 24, 2013
Come on, get happy
 BWW Reviews: THE WIZARD OF ODDS in Bridgeport - A Tale Worth Retelling
April 15, 2013
Speak up!
 BWW Reviews: RIDE THE TIGER at Long Wharf Theatre
April 8, 2013
He (or she) who rides a tiger can never descend.
 BWW Reviews: FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY in Bridgeport
February 25, 2013
I wanna be like them.
 BWW Reviews: CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS at Long Wharf
February 25, 2013
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, we are our parents, after all.
 BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL Rides the Mountains in Bridgeport
January 28, 2013
What's normal?
 BWW Reviews: Bridgeport's Downtown Cabaret Children's Theatre Updates BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
January 22, 2013
Beauty, Princess Leia, the Beast and the Jedi curse!
 BWW Reviews: BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL Brings High Camp to Mamaroneck
January 21, 2013
The implausible story came straight from the bottom of the barrel tabloid, The Weekly World News. Three teenage spelunkers in West Virginia find a half human/half bat creature. The local sheriff brings him to the home of the town's veterinarian, Dr. Parker, whose kind wife, Meredith, takes care of him and transforms him into a likeable person. Their rebellious teenage daughter, Shelley, falls in love with him and Meredith reveals a shocking secret: Bat Boy is Shelley's twin brother!
 BWW Reviews: JANUARY JOINER is Long on Hope, Short on Results at Long Wharf Theatre
January 21, 2013
Why can't we be happy just as we are?
 More Openings, More Shows
January 6, 2013
And memories from the past.
 Sherry Cohen's Picks for The Best of 2012
December 28, 2012
It's always hard for me to come up with the best of anything in entertainment. With my backstage theatre background, I'm obsessed with detail, and I can't simply sit back and enjoy any show. As a writer, I'm obsessed with the words, the sentence, the grammar, etc., and I can never read strictly for pleasure. In the pressure cooker of coming up with the best picks for 2012, I have a mixed pot.
 BWW Reviews: Not Dead Yet: THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE at Long Wharf Theatre
December 10, 2012
A noble, but flawed adaptation of Frank Marcus's trailblazing play.
 Town Players Make English Christmas Pantomime New Canaan Tradition in LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, Now thru 12/16
December 8, 2012
Not your usual fairy tales!
 BWW Reviews: A RAISIN IN THE SUN Still Packs Power
October 16, 2012
Phylicia Rashad just may have directed the definitive version of Lorraine Hansbury's A Raisin in the Sun.
 BWW Reviews: Chad Beguelin's Character-Driven HARBOR Premiere at Westport Country Playhouse
October 1, 2012
Meet the family! The theme of what makes a family is at the heart of Harbor, the world premiere of Chad Beguelin's first non-musical play. The strength of the play is that the character-driven plot keeps the audience members on their toes.
 BWW Interviews: Sean Pomposello Talks About Eye Catching Posters and Programs
October 1, 2012
What do you think about when you see a poster or theatre program?
 BWW Interviews: Edward Burbridge Talks About Designing Sets
October 1, 2012
You'll never look at another set without thinking about what goes into creating it.
BWW Reviews: Chad Beguelin's Character-Driven HARBOR Premiere at Westport Country Playhouse
September 3, 2012
Meet the family! The theme of what makes a family is at the heart of Harbor, the world premiere of Chad Beguelin's first non-musical play. The strength of the play is that the character-driven plot keeps the audience members on their toes.
 BWW Reviews: Westport's Intelligent TARTUFFE, Now thru 8/4
August 1, 2012
It can happen to anyone.
BWW Reviews: Westport's Intelligent TARTUFFE
July 23, 2012
It can happen to anyone.
 BWW Interviews: Chad Beguelin Plays it Straight
July 12, 2012
What's it like to write your first play after all those musicals?
 BWW Reviews: Westport's THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING Empowers
June 19, 2012
Down but not out with Maureen Anderman's Joan Didion
 BWW Interviews: David Kennedy Makes the 17th Century Hip
June 14, 2012
How do you take a show that everyone has seen and make it fresh?
 BWW Interviews: Maureen Anderman Talks THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING & Getting into a New Habit
June 12, 2012
After touring in Richard III with Kevin Spacey in The Bridge Project, an ambitious transatlantic endeavor between The Old Vic, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Neal Street Productions, Maureen Anderman returns to the Westport Country Playhouse in the upcoming production of The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's play based on her National Book Award winning memoir of the same name.
 BWW Reviews: Art Conflicts with Tradition in MY NAME IS ASHER LEV at Long Wharf Theatre
May 14, 2012
The conflict between art and religious tradition takes on extraordinary dimensions in My Name is Asher Lev, which is playing at the Long Wharf Theatre.
 BWW Reviews: Thrills, Chills and Skills Take You INTO THE WOODS at Westport Country Playhouse
May 11, 2012
What happens after "happily ever after" is explored in this deft and delicious production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 1987 musical, Into the Woods.
 BWW Reviews: Pushing the Envelope of Fun with TWELFTH NIGHT
November 5, 2011
Unconventional by design and by accident, but it works (mostly).
 BWW Reviews: Twisted Nerves with LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART at Westport County Playhouse
July 30, 2011
Does Terrence McNally's play on AIDS still hold up after 20 years? It's a bit weak, but the beach house is stunning!
 BWW Reviews: THE CIRCLE Brings Elegance and Wit at Westport Country Playhouse
June 13, 2011
Political scandals are hardly new. But this Circle takes a different turn.
 BWW Reviews: BEYOND THERAPY Thrills Through May 14 at Westport Country Playhouse
May 13, 2011
Durang's merciless satire on psychiatrists is still strong after 30 years.
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