(LENOX, Mass.) – The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, a contemporary comedy about life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side written by Charles Busch, opens this week at Shakespeare & Company and runs through Saturday, September 1, 2012, in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. The play stars Elliot Norton and IRNE Award-winner Annette Miller as Marjorie…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Shakespeare & Company founding member and director of training Dennis Krausnick takes on the demanding role of the aging monarch, King Lear, in the play of that title, being given an experimental treatment set in 1906 Russia in Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre from Saturday, June 16, through August 19, 2012. Set…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present the Berkshire Playwrights Lab 5th Season Gala Celebration, featuring new work by David Mamet, a performance by Treat Williams, and an appearance via video by Joe Mantegna, on Saturday, June 9, 2012, at 7:30pm, and staged readings of new plays on July 11, July 23, August…
(LENOX, Mass.) –Cassandra Speaks by Norman Plotkin, a one-woman show starring Tod Randolph about Dorothy Thompson, the “First Lady of American Journalism,” will receive its world premiere at Shakespeare & Company beginning on Friday, May 25, 2012. The play runs through September 2 in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. Dorothy Thompson was heralded by many…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Six Feet Under’s Lili Taylor, Cagney and Lacey’s Tyne Daly, and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Susie Essman are among a host of Williamstown Theatre Festival veterans and talented newcomers who will be straddling the boards at the ’62 Center in Williamstown this summer, along with Becky Ann Baker, Marylouise Burke, Brandon Victor Dixon,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – What is the future for romantic comedy in a dystopian era? What happens to a young couple embarking on their future, planning a family, when the very existence of the planet they live on is in jeopardy? And how can you entertain and provoke an audience by staging a drama about these…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Golden Globe Award-nominee Treat Williams, who is also an airplane pilot and a children’s book author, will take part in the fifth season-opening gala for Berkshire Playwrights Lab on Saturday, June 9, 2012, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. The multimedia event will also include a new short piece by Pulitzer…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – New York-based theater company American Vicarious performs Jon Lipsky’s politically-charged, experimental theater piece Living in Exile, a two-character retelling of Homer’s Iliad, at Williams College on April 10-12, 2012, and at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) on April 13-15. Jon Lipsky’s Living in Exile, directed by Christopher McElroen and featuring…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Berkshire Actors Theatre (BAT) 2012 summer season at Berkshire Museum will pair two shows by John Patrick Shanley: Doubt: A Parable, Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play, and a remount of last season’s successful production of Four Dogs and a Bone. The Shanley plays will be performed in repertory in the…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors will be screened at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Thursday, March 1, 2012, at 7 p.m. (and at 2 p.m. at The Clark in Williamstown, Mass.) as part of the London National Theatre Live in HD series. This new production, directed by the Royal Court’s Artistic Director…
