Berkshire on Stage

by Jess Hoffman  I have a love of literature and an unshakable interest in the complex and problematic people who create it. Chaucer, Poe, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway are all deeply imperfect (to say the least) and remarkable men with whom I am endlessly fascinated. I am less familiar with the…

Play by Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter, Elizabeth Doss, July 26-August 3 Pittsfield, Massachusetts—From July 26 – August 3, the Berkshire County Historical Society will present Poor Herman, by playwright Elizabeth Doss, Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter. The play uses Herman Melville as a subject to speculate on the line between utter…