Chester, MA – Recently appointed Co-Producing Artistic Directors James Barry and Tara Franklin are pleased to announce the full casting for Chester Theatre Company’s 2023 season, the first under their direction. Barry and Franklin are known for their award-winning work on the Town Hall Theatre stage, and they are excited to now be heading the organization and programming…
Chester, MA – Recently appointed Co-Producing Artistic Directors James Barry and Tara Franklin are pleased to announce Chester Theatre Company’s 2023 season, the first under their direction. Barry and Franklin are known for their award-winning work on the Town Hall Theatre stage, and they are excited to now be heading the organization and programming works for Chester audiences.…
The 7th annual Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, aka The Berkies, were awarded last night in a ceremony held at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. In 22 categories there are 26 winners, including four ties. 1. Outstanding supporting actress in a play: (TIE) Leah Hocking, All of Me, Barrington Stage Company…
by Barbara Waldinger The stage at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn has been transformed into a beach where a middle-aged, English-speaking, long-married couple are suddenly confronted by a younger, non-human, English-speaking couple: two large lizards, who have come up out of the sea. Given that this play, Seascape, was written by…
Winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Told with ironic wit and warmth, a middle-aged couple meets a pair of highly evolved lizards and both couples examine the meaning and significance of life. Pittsfield, MA – Running September 29 through October 23 at the Berkshire Theatre Group‘s Unicorn Theatre,…
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…
“It’s the most beautiful thing in the garden. It’s the only thing that doesn’t grow in a straight line and hasn’t been pruned to within an inch of its life.” The Great Barrington Public Theater 2022 mainstage season continues Aug.4 – Aug 14 with an evocative, penetrating drama about the…
by Jeannie Marlin Wood SHIRLEY VALENTINE is a one-woman comedy performed with charm, sensitivity, and great warmth by Corinna May. This play by Willy Russell is now playing at the Berkshire Theatre Group‘s Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge and it brings us into the small, drab world of Shirley from the…
