(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theater in downtown Pittsfield, garnered five award nominations from the Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) for last summer’s production of the musical The Game. The nominations include Best Musical; Julianne Boyd, Best Director of a Musical; Darren Cohen, Best Musical Director; Jen Moeller, Best Costume…
(CHESTER, Mass.) – Chester Theatre Company (CTC) will present a themed season of plays, called Uncommon Love Stories, from July 5 to August 26, 2012, featuring variations on the theme of love in works by Rajiv Joseph, Elizabeth Egloff, Arlene Hutton and Dipika Guha. “There’s a saying in the theater trade that all plays are…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Works by David Mamet, Harold Pinter and Shel Silverstein will be featured in an evening of short plays and sketches featuring the Berkshire Community College (BCC) Players and edited and directed by Berkshire Playwrights Lab founder and co-artistic director Jim Frangione from February 24 to March 3 at the Koussevitzky Arts Center…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Sometimes being one with the prevailing zeitgeist can have its drawbacks. Barrington Stage Company’s artistic director Julianne Boyd had planned to direct Arthur Miller’s The Price on the Pittsfield theater company’s Mainstage this coming summer. As it turns out, some Broadway producers had the same idea, and so the local company has…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – WAM Theatre’s third season will include the second 24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project showcasing five new works by women playwrights with everything written, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours; a new piece of devised theatre entitled Women & Technology created and performed during the WordXWord Festival in August; and the world premiere…
Photos by Kevin Sprague/Courtesy Shakespeare & Company (LENOX, Mass.) – Founding Shakespeare & Company artistic director Tina Packer’s production of Molière’s farce The Learned Ladies opens this weekend with a special brunch, a talkback with The Learned Ladies translator and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur, and a colorful display of…
(CHESTER, Mass.) – After 22 years of renting various spaces for its administrative offices, Chester Theatre Company (CTC) has finally taken possession of a property to call its own. With the gift of its current headquarters at 4 Main Street by owners J. Andrew Myers and Martin Wohl, the theater company is no longer homeless,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass., January 26, 2012) – Veteran actress Debra Jo Rupp, star of TV’s That ‘70s Show and a part-time Berkshirite, will star as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in a new one-woman play about the famed sexologist by Mark St. Germain at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) this summer. Dr. Ruth, All the Way will premiere on…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – James Taylor makes his Berkshire stage debut as an actor this week, playing Bob Cratchit in Berkshire Theatre Group’s annual community production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, presented for the first time at the Colonial Theatre. Eric Hill and E. Gray Simons III will co-direct again and return to the stage…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Shakespeare & Company presents a new and re-imagined production of David Sedaris’s The SantaLand Diaries, running Friday, December 2, 2011 through December 30, in the Elayne Bernstein Theatre. Company actor Ryan Winkles (The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Mystery of Irma Vep) stars as Crumpet the Elf in the one-man show, which…
