by Jeannie Marlin Woods Prepare to be immersed into a world that is fantastical – sensual, humorous, captivating. The current offering at the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre, METAMORPHOSES, is all that and more. The play is an imaginative re-telling of a dozen or so stories from the Roman poet…
Pittsfield, MA – Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Artistic Director, CEO Kate Maguire are thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for the highly anticipated fall production of Metamorphoses, Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award-winning and Drama Desk Award-winning masterpiece. Directed by Isadora Wolfe, former Associate Artistic Director and Resident Director of Sleep…
by Barbara Waldinger How does a director in 2024 attempt to update a 1938 Pulitzer-winning play–ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS by Robert E. Sherwood—so that it will speak to today’s audience? And why choose to take on this project when the play was turned into an Oscar-nominated film in 1940 (with…
Pittsfield, MA – Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Kate Maguire (Artistic Director, CEO) are excited to announce casting for its upcoming production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois , Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece that tells the tale of the remarkable journey of Abraham Lincoln. Abe Lincoln in Illinois written…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 The title says it all. This 1960’s British farce is broad and silly. It is an old war-horse of a farce, mumbling polite British apologies as it stumbles through more mistaken identities and chances for people to appear in their underwear than seems…
