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 the “Berkshire Theatre Critics Panel”. Online, free, and open to all, the Berkshire Theatre Critics Panel returns for an in-depth discussion and review of the…
For the last several months, Amy Brentano and Sara Katzoff have had the incredible privilege of co-creating an original theater piece called RELEASE alongside a collective of formerly incarcerated women and theater artists working together through 2nd Street organization in Pittsfield. RELEASE works towards humanizing the overwhelming statistics of racial…
Fall’s around the corner and we are thrilled to announce our September programming. This fall The Foundry continues to support organizations that align with our mission of giving platform to often unheard voices. The first couple of weeks of September, The Foundry has offered an in kind contribution of space…
Auditions for BCC Players‘ Production of Mother of the Maid by Jane Anderson at Berkshire Community College, 1350 West Street, Pittsfield, MA Show Description The story of Joan of Arc’s mother, a sensible, hard-working, God-fearing peasant woman whose faith is upended as she deals with the baffling journey of her odd…
Intergenerational Playwriting WorkshopFriday, December 10, 1:00-2:15pmBerkshire Community College, 1350 West St, Pittsfield, MA Williamstown Theatre Festival’s COMMUNITY WORKS co-founders Laura Savia and Lucy Thurber will lead a FREE public, in person intergenerational playwriting workshop, at Berkshire Community College on December 10, from 1:00-2:15pm. No prior experience necessary! Participants under 18 must…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2006 “The threads of misery and joyAre woven fine.Into a vast design,When tragedy gives way to comedy.Until you can’t discernThe line between them.”– William Dumaresq I cannot think of a show more wholesome and squeaky clean than The Human Comedy. When people speak about “American…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2000 One of the really great things about being a theatre critic is that you get to see all the shows. And one of the really awful things about being a theatre critic is that you have to see all the shows. No one…
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1999 Students from McCann and Mt. Greylock have given up their afternoons and evenings for the past two months to rehearse the 90 minute versions of Shakespeare that they will be presenting at Shakespeare & Company’s 11th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare. They…
