Barrington Stage Celebrates 24 Years of the Playwright Mentoring Project

(Pittsfield, MA) 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…

BSC Playwright Mentoring Project Celebrates 23 Years with Spring Tour

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:…

REVIEW: “Romeo and Juliet” at Main Street Stage

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…

REVIEW: “Bosoms and Neglect” at Main Street Stage

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…

REVIEW: “Baby with the Bathwater” at Mill City Productions

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…