(Pittsfield, MA)Â Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Artistic Director Alan Paul, celebrates 24 years with the 2024 Playwright Mentoring Project (PMP) with the All PMP Fest on Saturday, April 6 at 1:00pm at the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and…
Original plays written and performed by Berkshire teens based on their personal stories (Pittsfield, MA) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Artistic Director Alan Paul, celebrates 23 years with the 2023 Playwright Mentoring Project (PMP) Spring Tour with three free public performances:…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2009 Don’t get me wrong, I like words. I use a lot of them every day. But I am mindful of the truth in the old saying “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” At its best, theatre is a seamless blend of words and…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 “For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo.” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act V, scene iii I didn’t want to go and see this production of Romeo and Juliet at Main Street Stage because the company had made…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 I have been a big fan of the American playwright John Guare (1938- ) since I was a teenager. Like Shakespeare, Stoppard and Chekhov, he uses language in fascinating and intricate ways, which I enjoy. But like the other three writers I have…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 Something has gone horribly wrong with the Mill City Productions staging of Christopher Durang’s 1983 dark comedy Baby With The Bathwater. It’s not funny, and when a show this dark fails to provoke laughter it instead provokes gasps of horror, because there technically is nothing…
