(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) –Williamstown Theatre Festival has teamed with restaurant Hops & Vines to provide expanded concessions and outdoor seating at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance during the WTF season. Hops & Vines concessions at WTF productions will feature a full bar, gourmet sandwiches, snacks, and dessert items including ice cream from SoCo Creamery.…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – On Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at 6:45 pm, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes will be present for a pre-show discussion about his film Far From Heaven — on which the musical by the same title currently running in a preview production at Williamstown Theatre Festival is based — outside on the lawn…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Far From Heaven, a new musical based on the acclaimed, award-winning 2002 motion picture written and directed by Todd Haynes, begins a preview production on the Main Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival on Thursday, July 19, 2012, running through July 29, 2012. The musical features a book by Tony Award-winner Richard Greenberg…
(LENOX, Mass.) – In the great tradition of its fidelity to the text combined with freewheeling imagination, Shakespeare & Company is staging the Bard’s final play, The Tempest, in a fresh and provocative take helmed by company artistic director Tony Simotes, featuring Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis playing the lead role of the banished Duke…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Susie Essman of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm stars as Elaine Navazio in Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers at Williamstown Theatre Festival, running on the Nikos Stage from July 11 through July 22. Also in the production, directed by Jessica Stone (WTF’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Williamstown Theatre Festival opened its 58th anniversary season last Friday (June 28, 2012) with simultaneous opening-night performances of Oscar Wilde’s quintessential comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, is directed by TV star David Hyde Pierce, and the world premiere of The Blue Deep, written by Lucy Boyle, directed by veteran…
Fiddler on the Roof Barrington Stage Company Pittsfield, Mass. Running through 7.14.12 Review by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – If the measure of a good production of Fiddler on the Roof is loyalty to the original, then Barrington Stage Company’s current production of this beloved, iconic, nearly perfect musical, running in Pittsfield through July 14,…
(ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The life and times of Belle E?poque French composer Camille Saint-Saens will be examined, scrutinized, celebrated and revived in the ninth annual Bard SummerScape festival, a seven week arts festival on the campus of Bard College, which once again features a sumptuous tapestry of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret, and…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The Puppetmaster of Lodz by Gilles Ségal, about a death-camp survivor grappling with memories of the Holocaust, opens the Berkshire Theatre Festival season at the Unicorn Theatre, 6 East St., in Stockbridge on Thursday, June 21, 2012. “It’s hard to imagine how anyone can reconstruct a normal life after having been in…
By Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – In a region where you can barely take two steps without tripping over a theater group — whether it be an Equity summer theater, a year-round community group, a regional powerhouse, or a presenting organization – it may seem almost perverse to create yet another organization dedicated to the…
