Mahaiwe Announces Live Performances: Pilobolus, Broadway in the Berkshires, and Cecily Strong
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center announces the return of live (limited-capacity) indoor programming this summer with Pilobolus: Four@Play, Saturday, July 31 at 1pm, 4pm, and 7pm; Broadway in the Berkshires with host Richard Kind, Monday, August 2 at 7pm; and Cecily Strong – This Will All Be Over Soon, Saturday, August 7…
REVIEW: “Don Pasquale” at the Berkshire Opera Festival
by Fred Baumgarten Comedy, arguably one of the two greatest human gifts – the other being music – is a timeless art. Picture an arrow pointed on two sides, flying through spacetime, picking up a Greek comedy here, a courtly farce there, a Gilbert and Sullivan here, a Seinfeld there,…
REVIEW: “Elegies: A Song Cycle” at Barrington Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that at 4:45 pm on Sunday, August 14, when the press, the composer-lyricist, and several distinguished guests had been assembled at the Mahaiwe Theatre in Great Barrington for the official 5 pm…
REVIEW: “Hair” at Barrington Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 RUN EXTENDED IN PITTSFIELD AUGUST 17-21 ! “Hair simply could not have existed ten years ago, and it is conceivable that it could mystify audiences ten years from now, but it does catch, and quite successfully, one of the many moods and aspects of…