Berkshire on Stage

by Michael Moran, Special to Berkshire on Stage [EDITOR’S NOTE: The Williamstown Theatre Festival did not include Berkshire on Stage on their press email list, and we were informed by a “Dear Friends” letter that they were not able to seat our critics because of limited seating at their new…

Williamstown, MA — New York’s Heartbeat Opera—the indie company whose daring, stripped down takes of classic operas have been called “a radical endeavor” by The New Yorker and “revelatory” by The Los Angeles Times—presents a new adaptation of Samuel Barber’s rarely mounted opera VANESSA at the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF), directed by the visionary R.B. Schlather. This marks the first-ever…