by Barbara Waldinger How does a director in 2024 attempt to update a 1938 Pulitzer-winning play–ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS by Robert E. Sherwood—so that it will speak to today’s audience? And why choose to take on this project when the play was turned into an Oscar-nominated film in 1940 (with…
Pittsfield, MA – Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Kate Maguire (Artistic Director, CEO) are excited to announce casting for its upcoming production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois , Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece that tells the tale of the remarkable journey of Abraham Lincoln. Abe Lincoln in Illinois written…
by Roseann Cane In 1941, the German atomic physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his former mentor, Danish physicist Neils Bohr, and Bohr’s wife Margrethe, in their home in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen. Both men were to give conflicting reports of what happened during the meeting, and this has long been the subject…
Pittsfield, MA – Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Kate Maguire (Artistic Director, CEO) are excited to announce casting for its upcoming production of Copenhagen, a gripping exploration of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. ABOUT Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, Copenhagen is a gripping…
by Barbara Waldinger Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51 is not only significant because of its account of Dr. Rosalind Franklin, a Jewish female scientist whose essential contributions to her field continue to be overlooked sixty-five years after her death, but also as a psychological study revealing how Franklin’s all-consuming approach to…
Pittsfield, MA – Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Kate Maguire (Artistic Director, CEO) are delighted to announce casting for two of its summer 2023 shows: Million Dollar Quartet, a three-time Tony Award–nominated once-in-a-lifetime musical evening back by popular demand with some of the same cast as 2017 and Photograph 51,…
by Barbara Waldinger The stage at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn has been transformed into a beach where a middle-aged, English-speaking, long-married couple are suddenly confronted by a younger, non-human, English-speaking couple: two large lizards, who have come up out of the sea. Given that this play, Seascape, was written by…
Winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Told with ironic wit and warmth, a middle-aged couple meets a pair of highly evolved lizards and both couples examine the meaning and significance of life. Pittsfield, MA – Running September 29 through October 23 at the Berkshire Theatre Group‘s Unicorn Theatre,…
