Great Barrington Public Theater will host a Conversation With Berkshire Theater Artists Forum, March 18, 6:30pm, at St. James Place. Great Barrington Public Theater holds the third in a series of live talks with theater professionals, Monday, March 18, 6:30pm at St, James Place, Great Barrington. GB Public Associate Artistic Director Judy Braha sits…

by Barbara Waldinger It is said that “It Takes a Village” to successfully rear a child. The same may be said about what is required to mount a superior theatrical production.  Great Barrington Public Theater’s Things I Know to Be True owes its triumph at the Daniel Arts Center to…

PITTSFIELD, MA (November 15, 2021) – The fifth “Berkie” Awards for outstanding achievements in theatre arts for productions in the greater Berkshire region between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2021, were presented by the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) on the evening of Monday, November 15 at Zion Lutheran Church in downtown Pittsfield,…

by Barbara Waldinger How did David Mamet’s newest play, The Christopher Boy’s Communion, find its way to the Great Barrington Public Theater where its East Coast Premiere is being staged in a taut, well-paced production? The answer:  Jim Frangione, the director and Artistic Director of the company, has known and…

by Barbara Waldinger What a pleasure to attend the appealing and comfortable McConnell Theatre at Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, where Barrington Public Theater makes its debut—Breakwater by Jim Frangione.  Facing the audience is a deep, wide proscenium stage, depicting beige sand dunes in Hyannis circa 1990,…

by Barbara Waldinger It has been said that a play is merely a blueprint until it receives a full production. Lady Randy, by Anne Undeland, is a perfect example of how a biographical play about Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill, becomes an extraordinary theatrical event. Undeland’s witty and…