Berkshire on Stage

by Barbara Waldinger What could be more satisfying for a theatre critic with a penchant for opera than to attend a bel canto performance of…

Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will present eight screenings from the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD 2026-27 season, October 4 through June 12.  The…

Great Barrington, MA — BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL (BOF) announces its 2026 summer mainstage production, a new mounting of one of the most celebrated works in the operatic canon, Gaetano Donizetti’s LUCIA…

New York Theatre Workshop’s Mind the Gap returns to the Mahaiwe this summer, August 3-7. The intergenerational workshop will take place in the Indigo Room all week…

Great Barrington, MA — BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL (BOF) announces its 2026 summer season under the vision of Co-founders Brian Garman (William E. Briggs Artistic Director) and Jonathon Loy (Director of Production), and new President…

Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center welcomes the public to a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new performance venue, the Indigo Room, next door to…

Great Barrington, MA — Having succeeded in restoring world-class, fully-staged opera to the Berkshires, the “innovative, clever and thoroughly professional” (Bachtrack) BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL (BOF) is now busy rehearsing and producing its…

BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL (BOF), the ambitious company, which has restored world-class, fully-staged opera to the Berkshires with savvy productions and superlative casts,  mounts a new mainstage production of Verdi’s masterpieceLA TRAVIATA…