Berkshire on Stage

Taking place during the time of her daughter Joan’s dramatic rise and fall, Tina Packer brings tremendous energy to the title role, rendering Isabelle an ageless Everymother.

A modern Comedy of Errors “truly is Shakespeare for the whole family. This is the kind of action-packed, colorful introduction to the Bard that can make life-long converts of youngsters,” says Gail Burns.

“In a performance as big as all outdoors,” Gail Burns writes, the melancholy Dane and his cohorts take the stage of The Dell at The Mount to “tell Hamlet’s tale in record time.”

Corinna May and John Woodson revolve slowly before you while their characters talk about life. An interesting, if mundane, play reviewed by Gail Burns.

Making sense of relationships and theories about reproductive biology unleash high emotions and zingy retorts in this unusual play about the reunion of a child put out for adoption and her birth mother.

Burns and Murray review Shakespeare & Co’s “Private Eyes” and find it is a mystery play in more ways than one.

The world of Henry IV is filled with fascinating characters including the fatherly Falstaff, young Prince Hall and his nemesis Hotspur, plus the swaggering Pistoll. Centuries later, it’s still a fascinating coming-of-age story.

The glorious love affair of the world’s most famous lovers is set amongst fast-paced and terrifyingly realistic fight scenes and the natural beauty of the Berkshires., A rare treat to be found only in the Berkshires.