Berkshire on Stage

by Barbara Waldinger In a recent interview with the Times Union, Nicole Ricciardi, director of Shakespeare & Company’s current production of Creditors, describes the play…

(Lenox, MA) –  Shakespeare & Company announces its 2018 summer season. Exploring themes of Delight, Deceit, and Desire, the season includes three Shakespeare plays: Macbeth, As You Like It, and Love’s Labor’s Lost; plus the…

Gail Burns has been waiting for a long time for a Merchant of Venice worthy of her bucket list. Does Tina Packer’s new staging in Lenox redeem this controversial play? Read on…

The world of Henry IV is filled with fascinating characters including the fatherly Falstaff, young Prince Hall and his nemesis Hotspur, plus the swaggering Pistoll. Centuries later, it’s still a fascinating coming-of-age story.

by Gail M. Burns Anders Cato’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts is breathtaking. By that I mean that it literally takes your breath away. You…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2007 As I wander through the theatrical landscape, I am always on the look-out for interesting juxtapositions of plays,…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is exactly the same enormous anti-establishment 1960’s melodrama that I remembered it to…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 For it would seem that we write not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve…