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Sherry Shameer Cohen

Sherry Shameer Cohen

Sherry Shameer Cohen is an award winning parachute journalist, ad copywriter, and photographer who is always looking for more challenging work. Her work has appeared in Connecticut Magazine, Greenwich Magazine, Stamford Plus, Norwalk 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 for community theatre and reviewed theatre for the Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Theater Inform, and New England Entertainment Digest. She lives in Connecticut with her three drama kings - husband, Ken and sons Alexander Seth Cohen and Jonathan Ross Cohen.




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First Show:

Fiddler on the Roof

Favorite Show:

Ragtime

Favorite Stories:

  • BWW Interviews: GENEVA CARR - Geneva's background is so different from other performers. She was a Wall Street shark for quite some time before deciding that she was meant to act. She started late, but you would think she was acting her entire life.
  • An Iliad at Long Wharf Theatre - I'm not a fan of the original book, but this production blew me away, especially with Rachel Christopher's narration of a story that has contemporary parallels. She has incredible stage presence and even studied ancient Greek long before the show. She is also a student of Taekwando, so she can kicka** on and off the stage.
  • BWW Interview: Christine Scarfuto in New Haven - I like to interview the unsung heroes of theater. Christine is a dramaturg. I never knew there was such a job. Listening to a dramaturg talk about a play is truly enlightening because you learn so much about the background of the playwright and the times in which the play was written.
  • BWW Interview: Ali Stroker On AN EVENING WITH ALI STROKER at Westport Country Playhouse - Ali overcame a devasting accident that left her paralyzed when she was a toddler. That didn't stop her from pursuing her dreams. She broke a glass ceiling for people with disabilities. Big mouth that I am, I told her that she should do Shakespeare and mentioned that I saw Darius de Hass in Twelfth Night in wheelchair after he injured his Achilles tendon. She seemed hesitant, but then she performed in Shakespeare in The Park. I was delighted when I saw her on Only Murders in the Building.
  • Previews: SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Westhill High School - I knew Something Rotten! was not going to be your average high school show because it was produced by Stamford All-Schools Musicals. The directors, choreographers, costume designers, and set designers are all professionals and the student talent is incredible. All of them have had some stage experience and some have pursued professional careers. I knew this production would be good, but when I saw it, I was flabbergasted. I'd seen the show before at a community theater, but it was forgettable. This production was absolutely amazing.


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Previews: AN EASTER ON MULBERRY STREET at Weston History & Culture Center
Previews: AN EASTER ON MULBERRY STREET at Weston History & Culture Center
March 27, 2025

Don't forget to channel your '40s superpowers - strength, patriotism, family, and retro style. Get your inspiration from @retrofrog on Instagram!

Interview: Paul Slade Smith of THEATRE PEOPLE at Westport Country Playhouse
Interview: Paul Slade Smith of THEATRE PEOPLE at Westport Country Playhouse
March 19, 2025

A Season of Laughter continues at the Westport Country Playhouse with Theatre People, a new adaptation of Ferenc Molnar’s 1924 three-act farce, Play at the Castle (Játék a kastélyban).

Review: A FLEA IN HER EAR at Brookfield Theatre
Review: A FLEA IN HER EAR at Brookfield Theatre
March 3, 2025

David Ives’s new version of Georges Feydeau’s farce, A Flea in Her Ear is an ambitious three-act play for any small theater, but the Brookfield Theatre more than rises to it. Named one of the greatest farces ever written, it takes a lot to mount the play. You need a stage large enough to accommodate a cast of 14 players and part of a set that turns.

Review: TERRA NOVA at Powerhouse Theatre
Review: TERRA NOVA at Powerhouse Theatre
February 24, 2025

Ted Tally’s Obie Award winning play, Terra Nova, tells the compelling story of the ill-fated British expedition based on facts and the letters and journals found on Captain Robert Scott’s frozen body. Briefly, in 1911-12, teams of five Englishmen and five Norwegians competed to get to the South Pole first. Five men did not return home.

Review: NATIVE GARDENS at Westport Country Playhouse
Review: NATIVE GARDENS at Westport Country Playhouse
February 23, 2025

Karen Zacarías’s Native Gardens is a 90-minute one-act that thrives at the proven winner Westport Country Playhouse. Directed with verve by JoAnn M. Hunter, Native Gardens is a funny but meaningful play about harmony in the neighborhood and in nature.

A.C.T. of CT Now Accepting Applications For The 2025 Posthumous Prodigy Productions Fellowship For Musicians
A.C.T. of CT Now Accepting Applications For The 2025 Posthumous Prodigy Productions Fellowship For Musicians
February 20, 2025

A.C.T. of CT  has announced that applications are now open for the 2025 Posthumous Prodigy Productions Fellowship Award, a prestigious initiative honoring the memory of the late Bryan Gallace of Southport, Connecticut.

Interview: Anna Holbrook of MOON OVER BUFFALO at Music Theatre Of Connecticut
Interview: Anna Holbrook of MOON OVER BUFFALO at Music Theatre Of Connecticut
February 13, 2025

BroadwayWorld.com had a lovely chat with Anna Holbrook who is co-starring in Ken Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo at the Music Theatre of Connecticut.

Review: MOON OVER BUFFALO at Music Theatre of Connecticut
Review: MOON OVER BUFFALO at Music Theatre of Connecticut
February 10, 2025

There is no better time than now for Music Theatre of Connecticut’s production of Moon Over Buffalo. Or maybe playwright Ken Ludwig should have called it Loons Over Buffalo. This slapstick comedy is sidesplittingly funny about a fading stage couple who still dream of fame and fortune but are reduced to performing repertory in slumping venues.

Review: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE at Westport Community Theatre
Review: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE at Westport Community Theatre
February 2, 2025

What did our critic think of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE at Westport Community Theatre?

Previews: BRENNYN LARK IN CONCERT at Curtain Call
Previews: BRENNYN LARK IN CONCERT at Curtain Call
January 9, 2025

On Friday, January 17, Brennyn Lark will be back on the Curtain Call stage in a one night only cabaret. Tickets for the concert are $60.00 and available online.

Previews: ART at Carriage Barn Arts Center At Waveny Park
Previews: ART at Carriage Barn Arts Center At Waveny Park
January 8, 2025

Three men's friendship is strained by an all-white canvas. @metrojournalist

Previews: ANYTHING GOES at Stamford All-School Musical
Previews: ANYTHING GOES at Stamford All-School Musical
November 30, 2024

The Stamford All-School Musical is back with its 17th semi-professional production. This year it’s the perennially popular show, Anything Goes, a musical that has not been performed for several years in Lower Fairfield County.

Feature: 12 ANGRY JURORS at Westhill High School
Feature: 12 ANGRY JURORS at Westhill High School
November 18, 2024

The Northstar Playermakers, an exceptional high school drama club, will present Reginald Rose’s timeless play, 12 Angry Jurors at Westhill High School for one weekend only.

Review: THE 39 STEPS at Westport Country Playhouse
Review: THE 39 STEPS at Westport Country Playhouse
October 27, 2024

What did our critic think of THE 39 STEPS at Westport Country Playhouse?

Previews: LYING TO SPIELBERG at Palace Theatre
Previews: LYING TO SPIELBERG at Palace Theatre
October 4, 2024

Read BroadwayWorld's review for Lying to Spielberg at Palace Theatre. Learn more about the production.

Review: I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE at Center Stage
Review: I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE at Center Stage
September 22, 2024

What did our critic think of I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE at Center Stage?

Review: MASTER CLASS at Music Theatre Of Connecticut
Review: MASTER CLASS at Music Theatre Of Connecticut
September 16, 2024

Terrence McNally’s powerful Master Class opens the Music Theatre of Connecticut’s 38th mainstage season. We mean powerful – the book, the performances, the lighting, the sound – everything to make your afternoon or evening theater experience extraordinary.

Feature: THE 39 STEPS at The Colonial Theatre Of Rhode Island
Feature: THE 39 STEPS at The Colonial Theatre Of Rhode Island
July 31, 2024

A cast of four in a hilarious spoof of Hitchcock's film noir, complete with a high-speed chase across London and Scotland.

Review: RENT at Center Stage Theatre
Review: RENT at Center Stage Theatre
July 14, 2024

You won't believe that the entire cast is made up of high school and college students and grads. They're THAT good.

Feature: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW at Curtain Call
Feature: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW at Curtain Call
July 9, 2024

Almost every county has at least one summer outdoor Shakespeare performance, but there is only one that gives audiences the closest experience to see Shakespeare performed at The Globe just outside London. Drum roll, please! It’s Curtain Call’s 21st Shakespearean play on the beautiful grounds of Sterling Farms in Stamford.



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