THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE‘S 50th ANNIVERSARY SEASON will kick off with Paul Smith’s political satire, THE OUTSIDER, directed by Sky Vogel. Skewering politics and celebrating democracy, this timely and hysterical comedy will leave you laughing all the way home. Running two weekends October 7 – 20. On December 14, ACT TWO, a musical singing group…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss It’s a love story, which began as a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller in 1992, turned into a movie in 1995 starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, and adapted into a musical which premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2013 and moved to Broadway in…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Editor’s Note: Berkshire on Stage critic Paula Kaplan-Reiss had the opportunity to work on the other side of the footlights when she was cast as Kate Keller a production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” directed by Ed Dignum, which ran from February 9-12, 2024, at the…
by Jess Hoffman Arthur Miller is perhaps best known for Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, but also amonghis notable works is All My Sons. Like Death of a Salesman, All My Sons concerns a seeminglyordinary businessman with a checkered past. But unlike Death of a Salesman, which is…
ALL MY SONS Written by Arthur Miller Directed by Ed Dignum OPEN AUDITIONS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 and WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2023 at 7:00pm At The Ghent Playhouse 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, NY 12075 The Ghent Playhouse announces auditions for Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, ALL MY SONS, to…
The doors of the Ghent Playhouse will open on their 49th Season October 6th (preview October 5th) Tickets available August 1st OUTSIDE MULLINGAR Written by John Patrick Shanley Directed by John Trainor In rural Ireland, next door neighbors, Anthony and Rosemary are two introverted misfits straddling 40. Watching the years…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2008 “I have never sought to write plays that primarily tell a story…I have been most concerned with dramatizing something of the dynamism I myself find in human motivations and behavior. I regard a play as a composition rather than a story, as a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 1999 I officially declare the 1999 Berkshire Theatre Season open with the Town Players production of Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge”. I declare this so that I can add this production to my list of potential “best shows of the season” when…
