(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) launches FestEx, a shuttle service from Great Barrington to Williamstown, for the month of July for Saturday matinees beginning July 16 through July 30. In an effort to make the Festival more accessible to all Berkshire residents and tourists, the Festival has committed itself to reaching out to…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present the Berkshire Playwrights Lab New Play Benefit on Friday, July 15 at 7:30 pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, Mass.) The benefit will feature world premiere readings of new short plays written especially for the occasion by Joe Cacaci, Richard…
(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.) – Comedian and playwright Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch will be presented on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) from July 6 through July 17, 2011. Official opening night is July 7 at 7:30 p.m. A modern day farce that mocks the all-too-human desire to shape our own destiny, the…
(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…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The seminal 1971 drama, Moonchildren, by playwright Michael Weller, kicks off the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s Unicorn Stage season this week, in a production directed by actress Karen Allen. The play, often regarded as one of the definitive dramatic portrayals of young American life in the mid-1960s, runs June 28 through July 16.…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — The 2011 Berkshire Fringe kicks off its seventh season with 50 original works of theater, dance and music by emerging artists from across the United States from July 25 to August 15 in the Daniel Arts Center on the campus of Simon’s Rock. The festival hosts seven innovative theater and dance…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Nearly seven months after two of the Berkshire’s top producing and performing theaters said that they intended to join forces, artistic director and chief executive officer Kate Maguire announced that both have merged into one organization: Colonial Theatre/Berkshire Theatre Festival Merger Corporation. “The new name, of course, is an interim ‘mouthful,’” said…
