(LENOX, Mass.) – Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis and OBIE Award-winner John Douglas Thompson star in a new production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, about an artful canteen woman with the Swedish Army intent on keeping her business and family alive amidst the destruction of war, at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Wharton Salon celebrates its fifth anniversary this August with Two By Wharton, two Edith Wharton stories newly adapted into one-act comedies for the company: The Quicksand, adapted by Alison Ragland, directed by Catherine Taylor-Williams; and The Looking Glass, adapted by Elaine Smith, directed by Daniela Varon, running August 14-25, 2013 at…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Chaim Potok’s bestselling novel The Chosen is being given a stage adaptation by Aaron Posner and Potok himself at Barrington Stage Company, now through Saturday, August 3, 2013. The Chosen tells the much-beloved story of two boys, two fathers, and two very different Jewish communities in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Emmy-winning television and film…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Johnny Baseball, a quintessentially American musical that unearths the source of the Curse of the Red Sox and the secret to its triumphant end off Big Papi’s bat in 2004, will be presented on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival from Wednesday, July 24, 2013, through Saturday, August 3. Packed…
(CHESTER, Mass.) – Chester Theatre Company is staging the British psychological thriller Tryst by English playwright Karoline Leach through Sunday, July 21, 2013, at the Chester Town Hall. Tryst is set in Edwardian London, where a handsome con-man — going by the name George Love — courts women, marries them, then takes their life savings…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Melissa James Gibson’s This – a comedy about friends, marriage, and kids – will receive its upstate New York premiere in a staging by the Proprietors Theatre Company at Henry Hudson Studios from Thursday, July 18, 2013, through Saturday, July 20, 2013, at 8pm. The play will be given a distinctly Hudson…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – George Bernard Shaw’s timeless and incredibly influential play Pygmalion – which has influenced dozens of works of art since its 1912 debut, including Werner Herzog’s film Kaspar Hauser, Bernard Pomerance’s play The Elephant Man (as well as the subsequent David Lynch film version), and the Three Stooges’ 1935 slapstick comedy, Hoi Polloi…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Emmy Award-winning actress Colleen Zenk portrays Tallulah Bankhead in Looped, a new play by Matthew Lombardo running at Stageworks/Hudson Wednesdays through Sundays through Sunday, July 28, 2013. Based on a true incident, Looped finds Tallulah Bankhead, the internationally celebrated actress, being called into a sound studio in 1965 to re-record (or “loop”)…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass,) – The already crowded summer theater season gets just a bit more crowded this week when Mass Live Arts, a festival presenting three New York City-based alt-theater companies, takes a bow at Simon’s Rock College. Radiohole, New York City Players, and Half Straddle will be performing from Thursday, July 18, 2013, through…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Dracula, or the Un-Dead, a dynamic new stage version of Bram Stoker’s iconic 1897 tale, opens at the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Free Theatre on Poker Flats Field on the Williams College Campus (weather permitting). The production, adapted by Free Theatre co-founder and WTF veteran Steve Lawson, runs Wednesday, July 10 to Saturday,…
