(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – As the culmination of a technical residency at MASS MoCA, the unique contemporary theater company Half Straddle presents Seagull (Thinking of you), a new, experimental interpretation of Anton Chekhov’s classic play, The Seagull, in the Hunter Center on Saturday, December 15, at 7:30 pm. At MASS MoCA, Half Straddle partners with…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – British playwright and performer Tim Crouch concludes a two-week residency at MASS MoCA, as part of the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, with a staged reading of his play My Arm in Club B-10 on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at 8 pm. Crouch’s multimedia tale of a young boy who decides to…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Shakespeare & Company’s annual – and final – run of David Sedaris’ irreverent Christmas memoir, The Santaland Diaries, opens on Friday, November 30, 2012, at 7:30 p.m., and runs through Sunday, December 30, 2012, in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. This year, longtime company member David Joseph Hansen plays Sedaris’s less-than-merry autobiographical…
(NORTH ADAMS and PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The most famous novel ever written in the Berkshires – and perhaps anywhere in America and the world – comes to life this week courtesy of the Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland, when they bring their innovative adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick to the MCLA Church Street Center in…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Continuing with its successful track record of opening its summer performance season with a classic Broadway musical, Barrington Stage Company will open its 2013 season next June with a production of the landmark Broadway musical On the Town, with music by Leonard Bernstein, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green,…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on the novel of the same title by Mark Haddon and adapted by Simon Stephens, will be telecast live in HD from London’s National Theatre on film screens around the region, including The Clark in Williamstown, Mass.; the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington,…
(PITTSFIELD, MA) August 3, 2012 – New rock musical The Black Suits, about a high school garage band on suburban Long Island trying to win the St. Anne’s Battle of the Bands, runs in a workshop production as part of Barrington Stage’s Musical Theatre Lab, for which William Finn is artistic producer, through Sunday, September…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Blue Venice, a new live theater work by performance artist Heather Fisch and composer Jonathan Talbot, will premiere at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Friday, August 31, 2012, at 8 p.m. The production, variously likened to rock opera and neo-vaudeville features an eight-piece orchestra and choral ensemble and costumes by…
Shakespeare & Company Satchmo at the Waldorf Written by Terry Teachout Starring John Douglas Thompson Directed by Gordon Edelstein Review by Seth Rogovoy (LENOX, Mass., August 17, 2012) – There is nary a wrong nor a false note played in Terry Teachout’s Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson as Louis Armstrong, directed by…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – See How They Run, a vintage 1945 English farce written by Philip King and including a Russian spy and many references to Noel Coward’s Private Lives, is being performed at Barrington Stage Company now through Sunday, August 26, 2012, on the Mainstage. See How They Run takes its title is a line…
