Favorites of 2025: Macey Levin

Red Like Fruit at Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, NY, was a mesmerizing, offbeat production of this American premiere.  An actor reads to the audience the autobiographical story of a woman who is mostly silent.  With a lectern, a platform and a chair, the simplicity and the intensity of this play…

Winners of the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Awards Announced

PITTSFIELD, MA (October 14, 2025) – The Board of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) has presented the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, colloquially known as The Berkies, on Monday, November 10, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. This is the ninth time in ten years that these awards have…

Nominees for 2025 Berkshire Theatre Awards Announced

PITTSFIELD, MA (October 14, 2025) – The Board of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) has announced the nominees for the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Awards, colloquially known as The Berkies. The awards will be presented on the evening of Monday, November 10, 2025, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. This…

REVIEW: “Penelope” at the Ancram Center for the Arts

by Macey Levin Penelope  by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean and Eve Steinmetz is the enthralling production currently at the Ancram Center for the Arts in Ancram, New York.  It is based on Homer’s “The Odyssey,” the ancient Greek classic about Odysseus, King of Ithaca, who fought in the Trojan War…

Ancram Center for the Arts’ 10th Anniversary Season Continues with a Fresh Take on an Ancient Epic

[Ancram, Aug. 27, 2025] — Ancram Center’s fall season kicks off with Penelope, a cabaret-style musical retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey told from the point of view of Penelope, Odysseus’s long-suffering wife. With music and lyrics by Alex Bechtel and a book by Bechtel, Grace McLean and Eva Steinmetz, who also directs, Penelope will be staged Sept.…

Ancram Center for the Arts Announces 2025 Season

Celebrates 10th Anniversary as the Upstate Home for Visionary Theater Makers  (Ancram, NY – April 28, 2025) – Ancram Center for the Arts, under the leadership of Co-Directors Jeffrey Mousseau and Paul Ricciardi, announced its 2025 season which includes, in addition to its renown storytelling programs, a regional premiere, three site-specific original…

Final Weekend for ROW at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Although it is not open for review, Berkshire on Stage’s Barbara Waldinger was warmly welcomed to a performance of ROW at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Barbara shares: “Thrilling to see ROW.  What a complex undertaking! The set was ingenious, the lighting was spectacular including hauntingly beautiful shadows projected on the…

Williamstown Theatre Festival Announces 2021 Season

This summer, rediscover the power of live theatre with a season of three world premieres unlike anything you have experienced before and yet every bit as artistically excellent, culturally rich, and impactful as the work you have come to expect from Williamstown Theatre Festival. Devised by the country’s leading generative theatre artists,…