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…
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…
by Barbara Waldinger What could be better, when producing a play about conflicts within a family, than casting three superb actors (in a cast of five) who are a family? That is the case with the Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont, currently running OTHER DESERT CITIES by Jon Robin Baitz.…
LENOX, MA (May 14, 2025) — WAM Theatre is thrilled to announce casting for the June reading in their 2025 Fresh Takes Play Reading Series: Rooted written by Deborah Zoe Laufer (Be Here Now, The Last Yiddish Speaker), directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo (Far, Far Better Things, Sueño and Marisol), and features Jayne Atkinson, Jennie Jadow, and Hero Marguerite. The production…
The 2024 Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, aka The Berkies, were presented on Monday, November 11 in the Zion Lutheran Church Community Room, on First Street in Pittsfield MA. Presenters included J. Peter Bergman, Paul Sugarman, Mark G. Auerbach, and Berkshire on Stage critics Macey G. Levin, Barbara Waldinger, and Paula…
by Emily Edelman In Dorset Theatre Festival’s world premiere production of “True Art” by Jessica Provenz, museum art curator Jodi Dean acquires a world-famous work of art as well as a new intern while navigating the inner workings of institutional politics and personal relationships. Provenz’s funny and clever dialog coupled with…
(Dorset, VT– August 6, 2024) Dorset Theatre Festival has announced that Jayne Atkinson, best known for her Tony Award–nominated roles in The Rainmaker and Enchanted April, will lead the World Premiere of True Art by Jessica Provenz, directed by Michelle Joyner, playing August 21 through September 7, 2024 at the Dorset Playhouse (104 Cheney Rd, Dorset, VT 05251). “We…
(Dorset, VT – March 8, 2024) Dorset Theatre Festival is proud to announce its 47th Main Stage Summer Season beginning June 21, 2024, including Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane (June 21 – July 6); Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías (July 12 – July 21); Sidekicked by Kim Powers (August 2 – 17); and the World Premiere…
