PS21 Announces 2024 Season

PS21’s 2024 season, diverse, distinctive performances by American and international artists, World, US, and North American premieres, work developed in our growing artists’ residency program, and expanded community programming for Columbia County residents. ADVENTUROUS, COLLABORATIVE, ENGAGED Performances in our open-air Pavilion Theater at 2980 New York Route 66 in Chatham,…

REVIEW: “Seascape” at the Berkshire Theatre Group

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…

Berkshire Theatre Group Presents Edward Albee’s “Seascape”

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,…

REVIEW: “Dracula” at the Berkshire Theatre Group

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…

Berkshire Theatre Group Presents “Dracula”

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…

REVIEW: “Working: A Musical” at the Berkshire Theatre Group

by Fred Baumgarten At the risk of stating the extremely obvious: it’s 2019. American goods are manufactured in Mexico, Vietnam, and China. Something called “Democratic Socialists” are making a political stir. The wealth gap continues to grow to obscene proportions. I mention this not to start an argument, but because…