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Kieron Barry World Premiere Gets Stageworks/Hudson Revival

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – “Tomorrow in the Battle” by English playwright Kieron Barry returns to Stageworks/Hudson – where it had its world premiere in August 2012 – running Wednesdays through Sundays, August 13- August 31, 2014. Starring Danielle Skraastad, Christopher Kelly and Olivia Gilliatt, under the direction of Laura Margolis, “Tomorrow in the Battle” finds Simon,…

CTC Season Concludes with One-Woman Show ‘The Amish Project’

(CHESTER, Mass.) – The curtain comes down on the 25th anniversary season at Chester Theatre Company (CTC) with Jessica Dickey’s The Amish Project, running from Thursday, August 14, through Sunday, August 24, 2014, at the Chester Town Hall. CTC favorite Allison McLemore, star of last season’s smash hit production of Tryst, tackles all the roles…

‘Typewriter Plays’ by Joan Ackermann Get World Premiere Staging

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – A series of four one-acts called Q W E R T Y; Typewriter Plays by Joan Ackermann receives its world premiere staging at Mixed Company beginning Thursday, October 3, 2013, and running Thursdays through Sundays at 8pm through Sunday, October 27. “Q W E R T Y” is comprised of four…

Bryony Lavery Play Has American Premiere at Stageworks/Hudson

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Stockholm, an award-winning play by Tony Award-nominated playwright Bryony Lavery, gets its American premiere at Stageworks/Hudson from Wednesday, August 14, through Sunday, September 1, 2013. Incorporating theater and movement, Stockholm is a visual, physical and poetic exploration of one day in the life of Todd and Kali, an exuberant couple who have,…

New Play About Guys in a Barbershop to Be Staged in a Barbershop

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Kaufman’s Barber Shop, about a group of first-generation American-Jewish businessmen and professionals in upstate New York who meet regularly to have their hair cut and to socialize away from a society that accepts them only marginally, gets its world premiere in an innovative production by Shakespeare & Company staged on location at…

Hemingway and Fitzgerald Face Off in New Play at Barrington Stage

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.)  – Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah, a new play about the friendship and rivalry between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, premieres at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) from Thursday, August 15, 2013, through Sunday, September 29, 2013, on the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts…

Shakespeare Debuts at BSC with Jazz-Scored ‘Much Ado’

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – With a production of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Julianne Boyd and running from Thursday, August 8, 2013 through August 25 at the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, William Shakespeare makes his long-awaited debut at Barrington Stage Company. (Contributors to the Rogovoy Report are eligible for free tickets to this show.) Boyd sets this…

Tina Packer and Elizabeth Aspenlieder Face Off in Dark Irish Comedy at Shakespeare & Co.

(LENOX, Mass.) – The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, starring Shakespeare & Company founder Tina Packer and critically acclaimed company actor Elizabeth Aspenlieder, runs in the Bernstein Theatre from Thursday, August 8 through September 15, 2013. Directed by Matthew Penn, making his company debut, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tracks the dysfunctional relationship…

Heather Fisch Revives Vaudeville at the Mahaiwe

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – La Belle Epoque, an original depression-era cabaret musical by Heather Fisch, will be staged at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday, August 10, 2013, at 8pm. The show, featuring chorus girls, live music, slapstick comedy, and choreography, is both a revival of and homage to the old vaudeville style for…

Comic Thriller Brings Down Curtain on WTF Season

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Blood Play by The Debate Society concludes the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s summer 2013 season with a run on the Nikos Stage from Wednesday, August 7 through Sunday, August 18, 2013.  Named by New York Magazine as one of the Top 10 Plays of 2012, Blood Play is a darkly comic thriller created…