by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Victimhood, the Holocaust, racism, classism, abuse, revenge, dementia, fear, helplessness and family. All these moving themes and more are addressed in Lawrence Goodman’s world premiere play, The Victim, at Shakespeare & Company. Introduced to three women on a relatively spare stage, save a bed, a table, and…
After its record-breaking 2024 Summer Season, Great Barrington Public Theater continues to engage Berkshire audiences with the second year of live, sit-down conversations with theater artists and theater influencers in the Berkshires and beyond. “We’ve really enjoyed having our audiences engage with us year-round for our developmental readings and discussions.…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Who doesn’t adore the unconditional love of a dog? During the pandemic, many dogs were adopted, and dog-walking became a safe and enjoyable pastime. Such was the inspiration for Leigh Strimbeck’s original play, Dog People, having its world-premiere at Great Barrington Public Theater. Having last seen Strimbeck…
by Barbara Waldinger A particular advantage of living in the Berkshires is the opportunity to witness gifted artists of all types creating the magic of live performance. On September seventeenth, Donald Margulies, considered to be one of America’s foremost living playwrights, was in attendance at the sold-out opening of his…
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA—Bard College at Simon’s Rock’s Theater Program will perform RIOT on Thursday, November 10- Saturday, November 12. RIOT is directed by Assistant Professor of Theater and alumna Sara Katzoff ‘97. Originally created and devised by the internationally acclaimed Wardrobe Ensemble from Bristol (United Kingdom), RIOT is an epic…
The Simon’s Rock theater program presentsRIOT: an epic tale of violence, greed and cheap sofas Featuring live music, early 2000’s nostalgia and more characters than you can throw a meatball at Originally created and devised by The Wardrobe Ensemble Re-imagined and performed byAgnes Allman, Ashlyn Bagocius, Liam Forest, Lydia Helmstadter,…
by Macey Levin An isolated lighthouse sets the scene for Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox, Massachusetts. James Warwick has directed a quirky and provocative production of one of the classics of The Theatre of the Absurd. The plays of Jean Genet, Samuel…
by Barbara Waldinger Shakespeare & Company’s production of The Chairs has shaved off Ionesco’s sharp edges, anything unpleasant or uncomfortable, focusing instead on the relationship between an Old Man (Malcolm Ingram) and Old Woman (Barbara Sims) who have been married for seventy-five years. The Old Woman begs her husband…
