Barbara Waldinger, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Theatre, Director, and Theatre Critic, is helming the OLLI Players’ staged reading of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here (a 1930s novel and play adapted in 2017 by Tony Taccone and Bennett S. Cohen). Theperformance, scheduled for Sunday afternoon, April 19 th , at…
The OLLI Players are holding auditions for a reading of IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE, adapted from Sinclair Lewis’s novel and play. This full-length script relates the rise of a dictator in America in the 1930s and its impact on society at national, local, and individual levels. Reading Date: 4/19/26 (Sunday…
OLLI at BCC and Plays in Progress Present:Benedict Arnold. A Tragedy in Two Acts Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.In-person at Berkshire Community College (BCC), 1350 West St, Pittsfield, MA Free and open to the public. A Staged Reading, followed by a Panel Discussion. Written by Steven SomkinDirected by…
OLLI PLAYERS, a group that performs at Berkshire Community College, is seeking two African-American actors, a female and a male, for a reading of two short plays on the afternoon of October 19th. Mum Bett’s Minute is about the case that won Mum Bett (Elizabeth Freeman) her freedom in Massachusetts;…
OLLI at BCC Performing Arts Initiative Presents:The Nancy Vale Memorial Talk Kate Maguire, Artistic Director, CEO of Berkshire Theatre Group will speak on: The Vision and Reality of Making Theater in the Berkshires Thursday September 11, 2025 at 4:00-5:30 pm Free and open to the public, registration required.Registration closes September 4.…
Three Berkshire on Stage Critics on the Panel Pittsfield— On Thursday, September 14 at 10:30 a.m., OLLI: the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College presents the “Berkshire Theatre Critics Panel”. Online, free, and open to all, the Berkshire Theatre Critics Panel returns for an in-depth discussion and review of the…
