Berkshire on Stage

New York, N.Y.— On Sunday, December 7th at 5:30 p.m., Berkshire Playwrights Lab presents “Resistance Theater: Acting to Renounce Autocracy, Reclaim History, Rescue Democracy…Together” an evening of original works and motivational speeches in defense of democracy, at Symphony Space.  The evening features three original short plays, poetry, and music alongside motivational speeches…

by Barbara Waldinger A particular advantage of living in the Berkshires is the opportunity to witness gifted artists of all types creating the magic of live performance.  On September seventeenth, Donald Margulies, considered to be one of America’s foremost living playwrights, was in attendance at the sold-out opening of his…

LENOX, Mass. – Lunar Eclipse, a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies (Dinner With Friends, Time Stands Still, Collected Stories) makes its World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company this fall, featuring Karen Allen (Animal House, Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Tony Award-winner Reed Birney (recent: The Menu, Succession)…

LENOX, Mass. – New dates have been announced for Shakespeare & Company’s World Premiere  of Lunar Eclipse by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies, starring Karen Allen and Reed Birney, and directed by James Warwick. Staged September 15 through October 22 at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, five, new Thursday evening performances have been…

LENOX, Mass. – With marquee actors including Christopher Lloyd, Karen Allen, Tony Todd, Ella Joyce, Reed Birney, Annette Miller, Jacob Ming-Trent, and Finn Wittrock added to the boards among many others, casts have been announced for Shakespeare & Company’s 46th Season Thieves of Love, opening Friday, May 26 and running through October 22, 2023.  Artistic Director Allyn Burrows said the season…

(Pittsfield, MA – June 28, 2021) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Founder/Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, is pleased to announce extensions for the first four productions of the theatre’s 2021 season: Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin, Chester Bailey, Eleanor and Boca. “What a pleasure to open two theatre spaces,…

by Roseann Cane There are times in the theater when all of the elements required to bring a play to life–the script, the director, the actors, the designers–converge so faultlessly that the result seems like sorcery, a very good kind of sorcery. Barrington Stage Company’s current production of Chester Bailey…

(Pittsfield, MA – May 7, 2021) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Founder/Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, has announced casting for the season’s outdoor productions Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin and the world premiere play, Boca, and a line-up of Broadway stars who will perform in concert under…