OLLI Presents the ‘Berkshire Theatre Critics Panel’
Three Berkshire on Stage Critics on the Panel Pittsfield— On Thursday, September 14 at 10:30 a.m., OLLI: the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College presents…
REVIEW: “On Cedar Street” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Barbara Waldinger On Cedar Street is a musical based on Kent Haruf’s final novel, Our Souls at Night,a simple, bittersweet story about two lonely,…
REVIEW: “Faith Healer” at Barrington Stage
by Barbara Waldinger Of the twenty-four plays written by the great Irish dramatist Brian Friel (1929-2015), (probably best known in America for his multi-award winning…
REVIEW: “Just Another Day” at Great Barrington Public Theater
by Barbara Waldinger Actors are hired for piecemeal work–one production at a time—unless they are fortunate enough to be part of a continuing series, as…
REVIEW: “Fences” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger August Wilson’s towering play Fences, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama, is a challenging work for any theatre to produce. Expectations…
REVIEW: “Off Peak” at Great Barrington Public Theater
by Barbara Waldinger If the script of a play is a blueprint, then its journey from page to stage depends not only on the playwright,…
REVIEW: “Photograph 51” at the Berkshire Theatre Group
by Barbara Waldinger Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51 is not only significant because of its account of Dr. Rosalind Franklin, a Jewish female scientist whose essential…
Barrington Stage and the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires Present “Reflections on Antisemitism and the Cautionary Tale of ‘Cabaret’”
(Pittsfield, MA) Barrington Stage Company (Alan Paul, Artistic Director; Meredith Lynsey Schade, Managing Director) and Jewish Federation of the Berkshires will present a free panel…