Berkshire on Stage

Holiday greetings from all of us at Berkshire on Stage! This is your Webmaster (Webmistress??), Gail M. Burns (and my dog, Sylvie). I asked my…

2025 was an exciting and innovative season—a mix of new plays and classics, chock full of exceptional performances, directors and designers. Barbara Waldinger’s Top Ten…

Once again, the remarkable Berkshires theatre scene was replete with variety, excellence, and creativity. Writing in December, as I look back on a season that…

100 Saints You Should Know – Schenectady Civic Players This was an early favorite, so much so that I saw it twice. A strong cast…

Red Like Fruit at Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, NY, was a mesmerizing, offbeat production of this American premiere.  An actor reads to the audience the…

#1 At the Wedding – Harbinger Theater at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts Bryna Turner’s At the Wedding was the rare production that…

10. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Sand Lake Center for the Arts Sand Lake Center for the Arts’s fall production of The…

by Simon Brighenti, Special to Berkshire on Stage In this reviewer’s previous life as a lawyer, my colleagues and I would often encounter various Latin…