Mahaiwe to Screen National Theatre Broadcasts

Great Barrington, Mass.—Continuing its tradition of bringing the best of the world’s performing arts houses to the Berkshires, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center has added three HD broadcasts from London’s National Theatre to its year-round schedule: Henry V on June 18, Prima Facie on July 22, and Straight Line Crazy on September 10.   “Offerings from…

Hartford Stage Announces 2018-19 Season

Season features the World Premieres of Make Believe by Bess Wohl and The Engagement Party by Samuel Baum and productions of Shakespeare’s Henry V and Detroit ’67 by Dominique Morisseau The World Premiere of The Flamingo Kid, a new musical by Robert L. Freedman and Scott Frankel, directed by Darko Tresnjak, closes the season HARTFORD, CT — March 23, 2018 — Hartford…

PREVIEW: The 1998 Fall Festival of Shakespeare

Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1998 For the past two months students at McCann, Mt. Greylock, and eight other western Massachusetts high schools have been hard at work preparing their Shakespearean productions for public performance. This is the week that McCann will offer local audiences “A Midsummer Night’s…