Top Ten Theatre Productions of 2021, The Berkshire Eagle

“If you are in need of comfort food for your heart and your soul in these troublesome days, you will find plenty to spare at Hancock Shaker Village where Chester Theatre Company is ending its 2021 season with Daniel Elihu Kramer’s impeccably directed, warm, inviting production of Nia Vardalos’ Tiny Beautiful Things... Under Kramer’s finely tuned direction there is nothing mawkish, maudlin or melodramatic here; just life in all its authentic sadness, humor, whimsy, irony, its joy,disappointments, confusions and seeming contradictions.”
-Jeffrey Borak, The Berkshire Eagle

“The stories maintain our engagement all night long and they always move in surprising ways, neatly directed by Chester’s Artistic Director, Daniel Elihu Kramer… Tiny Beautiful Things is a heart-rending celebration of gratitude for having made it through the storm and having the desire and courage to keep showing up.”
-Patrick White, Nippertown

“Director Daniel Elihu Kramer weaves them into an ongoing and on-growing world that cannot survive without Sugar and who make Strayed into a whole person again… Kramer oversees a distinguished group of theater people who co-create a veritable hit of a play. For Chester Theatre, a hit in their season of fine, fine theater.”
-J. Peter Bergman, The Berkshire Edge

“The small but superb Chester Theatre Company ends its summer residency at Hancock Shaker Village on a high note with a soothing, heartfelt production of Tiny Beautiful Things… Tara Franklin hits all the right notes as Strayed/Sugar, a tribute to her acting chops and the directing skills of Daniel Elihu Kramer, Chester’s producing artistic director… Comes to us as a balm in these troubled times.”
-Bess Hochstein, Splash Magazines