OLLI Players Present Staged Reading of “It Can’t Happen Here”

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 Announce Auditions for Reading of “It Can’t Happen Here”

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 Players Announce Auditions

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;…

Berkshire OLLI Offers Theater Preview Series with Critics and Artistic Directors

The Performing Arts season opens with Olli‘s Berkshire Previews on April 4 where ten artistic directors will present their season by Zoom over six weeks, each Friday morning, beginning at 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. Each artistic director will have 45 minutes to talk and take questions.  The opening class features a Critics…

OLLI Presents the ‘Berkshire Theatre Critics Panel’

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…