[Ancram, Nov. 12, 2025] — Shared stories — whether told around the dinner table, at school, or in a theater — remind us of our common humanity and strengthens social bonds. On Nov. 22 at 3pm, Ancram Center for the Arts caps off its 10th anniversary season, welcoming three new…
PITTSFIELD, MA (October 14, 2025) – The Board of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) has presented the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, colloquially known as The Berkies, on Monday, November 10, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. This is the ninth time in ten years that these awards have…
Take Your Seat” and “Fund for Final Improvements” Are Two Ways to Contribute [Oct. 15, Ancram] — Ancram Center for the Arts today announced the final phase of its capital expansion project to rehabilitate an adjacent 1790 building and connect it to the mainstage theater. When completed “The Annex,” as…
PITTSFIELD, MA (October 14, 2025) – The Board of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) has announced the nominees for the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Awards, colloquially known as The Berkies. The awards will be presented on the evening of Monday, November 10, 2025, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. This…
by Macey Levin Penelope by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean and Eve Steinmetz is the enthralling production currently at the Ancram Center for the Arts in Ancram, New York. It is based on Homer’s “The Odyssey,” the ancient Greek classic about Odysseus, King of Ithaca, who fought in the Trojan War…
[Ancram, Aug. 27, 2025] — Ancram Center’s fall season kicks off with Penelope, a cabaret-style musical retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey told from the point of view of Penelope, Odysseus’s long-suffering wife. With music and lyrics by Alex Bechtel and a book by Bechtel, Grace McLean and Eva Steinmetz, who also directs, Penelope will be staged Sept.…
Three-time Obie Award winner and acclaimed monologist David Cale returns to Ancram Center for the Arts with a staged reading of his latest solo work, Blue Cowboy, an evocative tale about a NY screenwriter on assignment in Idaho and his encounters with an enigmatic rancher. Blue Cowboy was developed as part of Ancram…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss What better way to spend a gorgeous August evening in the scenic fields of Ancramdale than seeing three wonderful short plays? For the third year, Ancram Center for the Arts has treated its audience to this Plein Air experience, with the audience not finding out the location…
