Pittsfield— Presented by the Mill Town Foundation and the Wandering Dance Society, the first “Wandering Dance Festival” will be held this coming November throughout downtown Pittsfield. Free community dance classes, workshops, and events will take place between November 12th and November 17th culminating in a showcase performance at the Colonial Theatre on Saturday, November…
The “innovative, clever and thoroughly professional” (Bachtrack) Berkshire Opera Festival continues its 2023 summer season with a mainstage production of La Bohème on August 26, August 29, and September 1 at The Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, MA. One of the most beloved operatic love stories of all time, La Bohème is based on Henri Murger’s 1851 novel, Scènes de la vie de…
Pittsfield, MA – Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Kate Maguire (Artistic Director, CEO) are thrilled to announce BTG’s Full 2023 Summer Season, plus select casting. A full season cast announcement will be released at a later date. The Summer 2023 Season will include Million Dollar Quartet, a three-time Tony Award–nominated…
Pittsfield, MA – Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Kate Maguire (Artistic Director, CEO) are excited to announce the 2023 winter and spring season at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. There is something for everyone in this lineup of national performing acts, local and regional bands and family programming as part…
by Macey Levin Bram Stoker wrote his four-hundred-plus page novel Dracula in 1897. The world’s best-known vampire story has changed considerably on its way to becoming the play that is now in production at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Hamilton Deane, a British playwright, was the first…
Pittsfield, MA – Based on Bram Stoker’s classic novel of gothic horror, the legendary vampire Dracula descends on Berkshire Theatre Group’s Colonial to close out the summer season. Directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award Winner, David Auburn, Dracula has been striking fear into the hearts of people around the…
Colonial Concert Series: Featuring Broadway Luminaries At The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield Chita: The Rhythm of My Life at The Colonial Theatre Sunday, July 31 at 2pm Tickets: $75; Premium Seats $125 Come celebrate the one and only Chita Rivera in a unique concert event! The incomparable two-time Tony Award…
by Roseann Cane Spending time in Pittsfield’s historic Colonial Theatre is always a treat. Currently the venue for the Berkshire Theatre Group’s production of Once, the experience of soaking in the beautifully restored turn-of-the-20th-century theater is quirkily enhanced by an Irish pub alongside a stage transformed into the streets of…
