Top Honors Split Four Ways PITTSFIELD, MA (November 13, 2023) – At an SRO ceremony held at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield, the Board of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) presented the Berkshire Theatre Awards, colloquially known as The Berkies, on the evening of Monday, November 13, 2023. This was the seventh time the awards…
(Pittsfield, MA) – Barrington Stage Company (Alan Paul, Artistic Director; Meredith Lynsey Schade, Managing Director) proudly announces by popular demand the return of Associate Artist Mark St. Germain’s world premiere play The Happiest Man on Earth from September 22 through October 8, at the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts…
by Roseann Cane The Barrington Stage Company has opened their season with a play that’s a mesmerizing punch in the gut. I urge you to experience it. Eddie Jaku, the man at the center of the play, was born Abraham Jakubbowicz in Leipzig, Germany in 1920. As playwright Mark St.…
(Pittsfield, MA–April 27, 2023) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC) is pleased to announce full casting for the world premiere of Mark St. Germain’s new play The Happiest Man on Earth(May 24-June 17) and a new production of the legendary Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret (June 14-July 8). Kenneth Tigar (Broadway: Fish in the Dark; Amazon Prime: “The Man in the High…
PITTSFIELD, MA (November 15, 2021) – The fifth “Berkie” Awards for outstanding achievements in theatre arts for productions in the greater Berkshire region between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2021, were presented by the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) on the evening of Monday, November 15 at Zion Lutheran Church in downtown Pittsfield,…
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…
(Pittsfield, MA – April 6, 2021) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Founder/Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, will produce a 2021 season that will feature four productions staged indoors at the theatre’s Boyd-Quinson Stage (30 Union Street) and three productions which will be staged outdoors under a tent…
