Favorites of 2025: Jeannie Marlin Woods

Once again, the remarkable Berkshires theatre scene was replete with variety, excellence, and creativity. Writing in December, as I look back on a season that stretched from October 2024 to October 2025, there were successes and a few productions that were not yet ready for prime time. However, this reviewer…

Winners of the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Awards Announced

PITTSFIELD, MA (October 14, 2025) – The Board of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) has presented the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, colloquially known as The Berkies, on Monday, November 10, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. This is the ninth time in ten years that these awards have…

Nominees for 2025 Berkshire Theatre Awards Announced

PITTSFIELD, MA (October 14, 2025) – The Board of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) has announced the nominees for the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Awards, colloquially known as The Berkies. The awards will be presented on the evening of Monday, November 10, 2025, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. This…

REVIEW: “Metamorphoses” at Berkshire Theatre Group

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…

Berkshire Theatre Group Announces Casting for “Metamorphoses”

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…

REVIEW: “Madame Mozart: The Lacrimosa” at Great Barrington Public Theater

by Barbara Waldinger One of the most important missions of the Great Barrington Public Theater is: “to develop and produce new plays, with a focus on playwrights and theater artists in the Berkshires.”  True to form, the theater’s current production of MADAME MOZART, THE LACRIMOSA, was written, directed, performed, and…

REVIEW: “The Weir” at the Berkshire Theatre Group

by Barbara Waldinger The second most important announcement by the Berkshire Theatre Group, after its decision to produce THE WEIR, an exquisite play by Conor McPherson, was the name of the director:  Eric Hill.  Once that was established, we knew this delicate play would be in capable hands and the…