Original plays created by Berkshire teens based on their personal stories. Free public performance on Saturday, April 9 (Pittsfield, MA) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, celebrates its Playwright Mentoring Project Spring Tour with a free public…
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November 2003. It has become an autumn tradition for Mt. Greylock Regional High School to mount a Shakespearean production, and for many years now those shows have been produced under the aegis of Shakespeare & Company as a part of their Fall Festival of…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2000 I am happy to say that I left the Mt. Greylock auditorium with a considerably happier heart than when the curtain fell after “Gigi” last month. “A Day In The Life” an effort by teacher Sunny Da Silva and various students in the Mt. Greylock Middle School…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2000 I am keenly aware that this is a high school production and that tender young egos are at stake here, and so I will heed the good advice of Thumper’s father: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything.” And…
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1999 Students from McCann and Mt. Greylock have given up their afternoons and evenings for the past two months to rehearse the 90 minute versions of Shakespeare that they will be presenting at Shakespeare & Company’s 11th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare. They…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 1999 I have not seen “The Winter’s Tale” since that hazy period in my life BC (before children). Way back then I did a paper on Shakespeare’s “romances”, and I saw the scarcely performed play at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut, with the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 Sometimes you find theatre in the strangest places. On Tuesday night I found it way at the back of the playing fields at Mt. Greylock Regional High School. It was an idyllic summer evening, still light throughout the 7 PM show, which ran…
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1998 For the past two months students at McCann, Mt. Greylock, and eight other western Massachusetts high schools have been hard at work preparing their Shakespearean productions for public performance. This is the week that McCann will offer local audiences “A Midsummer Night’s…
