For the last several months, Amy Brentano and Sara Katzoff have had the incredible privilege of co-creating an original theater piece called RELEASE alongside a collective of formerly incarcerated women and theater artists working together through 2nd Street organization in Pittsfield. RELEASE works towards humanizing the overwhelming statistics of racial…
by Roseann Cane Today one of the most frequently performed operas in the world, La Bohème premiered in 1896 in Turin, conducted by the 28-year-old Arturo Toscanini. Set in Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1830s, it focuses on four young, impoverished bohemian artists, Marcello, a painter (baritone Benjamin Taylor);…
Pittsfield, MA – Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Kate Maguire (Artistic Director, CEO) are excited to present Hershey Felder live and in-person at The Colonial Theatre for the first time in four years in the immersive theatrical experience, Hershey Felder’s Beethoven: A Play with Music, from September 8 through September…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss A New Brain, by William Finn, is receiving a new life at Barrington Stage in a collaboration with Williamstown Theatre Festival. What a thrill to have the playwright/composer in the audience to witness this exceptional revival, first produced at Lincoln Center in 1998 and revived in 2015.…
Auditions for BCC Players‘ Production of Mother of the Maid by Jane Anderson at Berkshire Community College, 1350 West Street, Pittsfield, MA Show Description The story of Joan of Arc’s mother, a sensible, hard-working, God-fearing peasant woman whose faith is upended as she deals with the baffling journey of her odd…
Pittsfield, MA–Berkshire Theatre Group seeks young actors to audition for its upcoming non-Equity touring show production of the Magic Tree House Merlin Missions: Winter of The Ice Wizard for the 2023-2024 school year. All auditions will take place at The Colonial Theatre located at 111 South Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201…
Pittsfield— Presented by the Mill Town Foundation and the Wandering Dance Society, the first “Wandering Dance Festival” will be held this coming November throughout downtown Pittsfield. Free community dance classes, workshops, and events will take place between November 12th and November 17th culminating in a showcase performance at the Colonial Theatre on Saturday, November…
by Barbara Waldinger Of the twenty-four plays written by the great Irish dramatist Brian Friel (1929-2015), (probably best known in America for his multi-award winning Dancing at Lughnasa [1990]), two of them—Faith Healer (1979) and Molly Sweeney (1994)—consist of monologues expressed by three characters. Why would such a gifted playwright…
