Berkshire on Stage

by Fred Baumgarten For nearly three hours last Saturday afternoon, you could hear a pin drop inside the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield at the Berkshire…

by Lisa Jarisch Surely there is no better cure for melancholy that approaches as the curtain descends on the summer theater season than a healthy…

by Barbara Waldinger The title explains it all.  Rachel Lynett has written a powerful and controversial attack against white liberals who think they understand Black…

by Roseann Cane “There is nothing permanent except change.”  –Heraclitus As the lights come up we see two people, a mature woman wrapped in a…

by Macey Levin In 1957 Louise Seger of Houston, Texas, had an idol  – Grand Ole Opry star Patsy Cline.  When Cline was going to…

by Jenny Hansell A wooded glade lined with white pine trees in the Berkshires is a perfect stand-in for the Forest of Arden, the setting…

SEASON 44 AT THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE THE FATHER by Florian Zeller directed by Brian Wagner  Performance Dates: October 5-7, 12-14, 19-21 THE PANTO THE ELVES AND THE…

by Roseann Cane In 1927 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg posited what is often referred to as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: it is not possible…