2026 10×10 New Play Festival line-up celebrates its fifteenth season with date nights, coffee shops, and a Christmas Eve story 100 Minutes of comedy and drama to unfold with familiar faces in fast-paced theatrical relay as centerpiece of Pittsfield’s 10×10 Upstreet Winter Arts Festival Pittsfield, Massachusetts – With a cast of Barrington…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The beauty of ten ten-minute plays is the variety of stories and genres capturing the audience’s attention, the chance to see the work of diverse playwrights, and the quick resolution of conflicts and dramas. The challenge is one cast portraying wildly different characters in limited time with…
The 2024 Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, aka The Berkies, were presented on Monday, November 11 in the Zion Lutheran Church Community Room, on First Street in Pittsfield MA. Presenters included J. Peter Bergman, Paul Sugarman, Mark G. Auerbach, and Berkshire on Stage critics Macey G. Levin, Barbara Waldinger, and Paula…
(Pittsfield, MA) – By popular demand, Barrington Stage Company has added five performances to the run of Associate Artist Mark St. Germain’s world premiere play Forgiveness at the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (36 Linden Street, Pittsfield). Originally scheduled to play through Sunday, August 25, Forgiveness will…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss As a theater critic I am aware that an entire audience watching the same show can result in an audience-size number of opinions. What a clever idea Mark St. Germain put into action writing Forgiveness, performed at Barrington Stage Company. Reading about the Board of Pardons, a…
(Pittsfield, MA – June 6, 2024) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Alan Paul, is pleased to announce casting for four of the company’s 30th anniversary season productions. “As we launch Barrington Stage Company’s 30th anniversary, we are so proud to welcome a range of extraordinary talent to…
Great Barrington Public Theater will host a Conversation With Berkshire Theater Artists Forum, March 18, 6:30pm, at St. James Place. Great Barrington Public Theater holds the third in a series of live talks with theater professionals, Monday, March 18, 6:30pm at St, James Place, Great Barrington. GB Public Associate Artistic Director Judy Braha sits…
by Emily Edelman Barrington Stage Company’s 10X10 New Play Festival is a welcome break in the doldrums of winter in the Berkshires, and this year’s 13th annual edition continued the tradition of ten 10-minute plays by diverse writers in a fast-paced evening of bite-sized vignettes. The opening number, a lively…
