Newmakers
Jenny Gerstein, longtime director at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, will serve as Artistic Director of the Tony-honored Encores series at New York City Center. TheaterWorks Hartford Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero will stage Dear Evan Hansen at the MUNY in St. Louis, July 28-August 3, after which he stages the 50th Anniversary revival of A Chorus Line at Goodspeed. For MUNY details: https://muny.org/. Alan H. Green, Barrington Stage Associate Artist who starred in the 2024 production of Next to Normal, made his New York cabaret debut at 54 Below in an autobiographical show, Finally!.He;s currently in Nobody Loves You, a new musical at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre, February 28-March 30. For details: https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2024-25-season/nobody-loves-you/.
The Burrage Brothers of Westfield (above) are staking out their claim to Broadway. Joshua Burrage (above right), twill be in the cast of the upcoming Betty Boop musical, Boop The Musical, opening on Broadway on March 11. He trained at the New England Dance Center in Westfield, before joining the national tour of Newsies, which played The Bushnell, and the Broadway company of Cats. He also appeared on The Gilded Age. Brother Nick Burrage (above left) is dance captain of Moulin Rouge on Broadway. For details on Boop: www.boopthemusical.com.
Break A Leg! To Barrington Stage Company Associate Artist Mark H. Dold, (left) who stars in the Miami production of the Broadway hit Appropriate at GableStage, January 31-February 23. For details: https://www.gablestage.org/appropriate/
And, to Jay Sefton (right), whose Unreconciled, which won accolades at Chester Theatre last summer, opens in Pittsburgh on January 31, before heading to Wilmington, NC and Los Angeles. For details: https://www.unreconciledtheplay.com/upcoming-performances
A Passing of Note:
Jacques Cartier, founder of Hartford Stage in 1964, has died at the age of 94. For details: https://www.courant.com/2025/01/29/remembering-jacques-cartier-who-set-hartford-stage-up-to-becoming-top-regional-theater-in-u-s/
Mark G. Auerbach studied theatre at American University and The Yale School of Drama. He has worked for arts organizations nationwide, and reported on the arts for print and broadcast. Mark produces and hosts ArtsBeat, Survivor Stories, and On The Mark for WCPC15 and 89.5fm/WSKB. He’s a regular contributor to Berkshire onstage and a member of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association.