(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Love/Sick, the latest play by Almost, Maine playwright John Cariani, will receive a staged reading by Berkshire Playwrights Lab on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at 7:30pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, Mass.). Love/Sick is composed of a series of ten funny, slightly twisted love stories…
(LENOX, Mass.) – For one night only, Shakespeare & Company will throw away the Bard’s texts in favor of show tunes, when the theater company’s ensemble is joined by a host of talent from Broadway and opera stages for Broadway in the Berkshires, the annual benefit dinner and performance for the company’s internationally-acclaimed education and…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Long Ago and Far Away and other short comedies by playwright David Ives will be performed by Walking the Dog Theater company at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century from Friday, July 5, 2013, through Sunday, July 21. Ives is known for his verbal dexterity, theatrical invention, and quirky humor. David…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Bard SummerScape festival kicks off on Saturday, July 6 at 8pm, with A Rite, a major new dance-theater piece by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and SITI Company. Co-commissioned by SummerScape and created by Bill T. Jones and Anne Bogart, two titans of American performing arts, A Rite commemorates…
Animal Crackers Williamstown Theatre Festival Through Saturday, July 13, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – It turns out the Marx Brothers were Marxists in more than just name only. Their pointed, slapstick humor was really social satire way ahead of its time, as can be seen in the terrific, entertaining production of their…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Playwrights Lab kicks off its sixth season with a multimedia Gala Celebration on Friday, June 7, 2013, at 7:30pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. The gala cast will include actors Treat Williams and Tony Shalhoub (who was just nominated for a Tony Award for his Broadway performance in Golden…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Adding to her body of work portraying iconic women, including Golda Meir, Martha Mitchell, and the title character in Charles Busch’s ‘Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,’” Eliot Norton Award-winning actress Annette Miller tackles the role of operatic diva Maria Callas in Terrance McNally’s Master Class, officially kicking off Shakespeare & Company’s 36th…
(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…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Award-winning playwright David Ives’s new adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s classic farce, The Liar, opens on Friday, February 1, 2013, and runs through Sunday, March 24, 2013, in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. The production, directed by founding member Kevin G. Coleman, follows up last winter’s run…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – On the Town, the landmark Broadway musical featuring music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on the ballet Fancy Free by Jerome Robbins, kicks off Barrington Stage Company’s 2013 summer season on June 12, 2013. The musical will be followed by a staging of…
