(EAST OTIS, Mass.) – The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman play about poet Emily Dickinson, is being revived by Triple Shadow in a site-specific, indoor/outdoor production performed by Mari Andrejco as Emily Dickinson and directed by Beth Skinner. The production played to sold-out audiences last season, and this summer’s performances run through August 26, 2012,…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Satchmo at the Waldorf, a new one-man play starring OBIE Award-winner John Douglas Thompson and written by critically acclaimed author, jazz critic, and Louis Armstrong biographer Terry Teachout, receives its New England premiere beginning this week at Shakespeare & Company in a production directed by Gordon Edelstein, the award-winning artistic director of…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – On Saturday, August 25, 2012, at 8 pm, after a two week-long residency at MASS MoCA, renowned choreographer and dancer Nora Chipaumire, former associate artistic director of Urban Bush Women, works with an all-star team including acclaimed Grammy Award-nominated composer and pianist Omar Sosa, Long Wharf Theater associate artistic director Eric…
(CHESTER, Mass.) – The final installment in Chester Theatre Company’s 2012 “Uncommon Love Stories” season will be The Betrothed by Dipika Guha, receiving its regional premiere in only its second professional production. The Betrothed, which the Boston Globe welcomed as “a whimsical tour of the supernatural,” plays now through Sunday, August 26, 2012. “This magical…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Wharton Salon joins The Mount’s year-long celebration of Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday by putting Edith Wharton herself onstage this year in The Inner House, running from Wednesday, August 15 through Sunday, August 26, 2012, at The Mount. Adapted by Dennis Krausnick from Wharton’s 1934 autobiography, A Backward Glance, actress Tod Randolph…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! by Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall will be presented from August 8, 2012, through August 19, 2012, on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the summer festival’s final production of the 2012 season. The world premiere of WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! is directed by May Adrales (Goodman Theatre’s Mary, WTF’s 2008 Fellowship…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – RIOT, a new physical theater play by the internationally acclaimed Wardrobe Ensemble from Bristol, U.K., has its U.S. premiere at the Berkshire Fringe – in the Daniel Arts Center at Simon’s Rock College – now through August 13. Nominated for the Acting Excellence Award for Best Ensemble of 2011 at the…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, with a world premiere translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, brings down the curtain on the Main Stage season at Williamstown Theatre Festival, with a production running from Wednesday, August 1, 2012, through August 19, 2012. The play is being given…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” will transform himself into the hideously deformed title character of The Elephant Man when Bradley Cooper, star of Hollywood comedies including The Hangover and Wedding Crashers, tackles the dramatic role of John Merrick at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, in a production also starring indie film queen Patricia…
(ALBANY, N.Y.) – Academy Award-winner Chris Cooper, Emmy Award-winner Margo Martindale, and Tony Award winners Bill Irwin and Julie White are among the actors who will be reading short plays over the air on Playing on Air, a new public radio show of short plays, to be broadcast every fourth Friday of every month beginning…
