(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Bashir Lazhar, a drama about a French-Algerian political refugee who becomes an elementary school teacher in Montreal, written by Canadian playwright Evelyne de la Chenelière, receives its U.S. premiere run at Barrington Stage Company from Wednesday, May 22, 2013, through Sunday, June 8, 2013. Juri Henley-Cohn makes his Barrington Stage debut in…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, with a world premiere translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, brings down the curtain on the Main Stage season at Williamstown Theatre Festival, with a production running from Wednesday, August 1, 2012, through August 19, 2012. The play is being given…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Far From Heaven, a new musical based on the acclaimed, award-winning 2002 motion picture written and directed by Todd Haynes, begins a preview production on the Main Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival on Thursday, July 19, 2012, running through July 29, 2012. The musical features a book by Tony Award-winner Richard Greenberg…
(LENOX, Mass.) – In the great tradition of its fidelity to the text combined with freewheeling imagination, Shakespeare & Company is staging the Bard’s final play, The Tempest, in a fresh and provocative take helmed by company artistic director Tony Simotes, featuring Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis playing the lead role of the banished Duke…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The Puppetmaster of Lodz by Gilles Ségal, about a death-camp survivor grappling with memories of the Holocaust, opens the Berkshire Theatre Festival season at the Unicorn Theatre, 6 East St., in Stockbridge on Thursday, June 21, 2012. “It’s hard to imagine how anyone can reconstruct a normal life after having been in…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present a staged reading of Anna Ziegler’s An Incident, directed by Bob Jaffe on Wednesday, August 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. A family drama, An Incident follows the Nadelmans from New York City to Maine, as parents Philip and Lillian visit Joey,…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century and Walking the dog Theater open their fifteen-performance run of Sarah Ruhl’s poetic and witty Eurydice on Thursday, July 7, running through the end of July. This contemporary retelling of the classic Greek myth presents a fresh look at the universality of life’s inevitabilities, both…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) opens its Main Stage season on Friday, June 30, 2011 at 8 with Jon Robin Baitz’s Three Hotels, officially opening the 2011 WTF season. Three Hotels began previews on June 29 and will run through July 24. Tony Award-winning director Robert Falls (The Light in the Piazza, American…
(Lenox, MA) –As You Like It, one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, runs through September 4 in Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre in Lenox, Mass. Abounding in fools, lovers, and cross-dressers, this is the sort of production that Shakespeare & Company does best. Directed by company artistic director Tony Simotes, this As You Like It is…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present a staged reading of Andrew Dolan’s The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King directed by Rod Menzies on Wednesday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock Daniel Arts Center McConnell Theater (84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, Mass.). The Many Mistresses of Martin…
