Berkshire on Stage

[Ancram, Aug. 27, 2025] — Ancram Center’s fall season kicks off with Penelope, a cabaret-style musical retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey told from the point of view of Penelope, Odysseus’s long-suffering wife. With music and lyrics by Alex Bechtel and a book by Bechtel, Grace McLean and Eva Steinmetz, who also directs, Penelope will be staged Sept.…

Are you a performer who delights in bringing new work to life? If so, UMass Theater wants you to audition for three very different new plays going up this spring!  Olvidados: A Mexican American Corrido is a play with music that examines a shameful moment in American history and how it…