Friday, September 30, 2011
Friday September 30, 2011
PITTSFIELD -- Summer may be over but theaters in and around the Berkshires are in high gear.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:05AMMonday, August 22, 2011
Director David Auburn hadn't heard of Tennessee Williams' "Period of Adjustment" until he stumbled across it while reading a bunch of Williams' plays in search of something to direct this su…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 05:41AMSunday, August 14, 2011
PITTSFIELD -- Four first-rate actors are giving four first-rate performances in the hands of one first-rate director in Berkshire Actors Theatre's inaugural production. If only the play, Joh…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 08:35PMWednesday, August 10, 2011
Kathleen Clark’s mostly breezy comedy, "In the Mood," which is having its world premiere in a handsomely mounted, generally well-acted production at Berkshire Theatre Festival’s Fitzpatr…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 05:37AMTuesday, August 9, 2011
This is simpy a mismatch from the get-go. Packer struggles mightily in a losing effort to gain mastery over her material. Her rhythm at Friday’s opening night was halting, uncertain, grasp…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:18AMWILLIAMSTOWN -- As Bess Wohl’s at once gentle and dramatically powerful play, "Touch(ed)," opens, Kay (insightfully played by Lisa Joyce in the well-directed, very well-acted production at…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:14AMSaturday, August 6, 2011
STOCKBRIDGE - Playwright Kathleen Clark can't get away from her fondness for good old- fashioned romantic comedies; the kind that used to feature the likes of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepbur…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 10:08AMFriday, August 5, 2011
Friday August 5, 2011
STOCKBRIDGE - Playwright Kathleen Clark can't get away from her fondness for good old- fashioned romantic comedies; the kind that used to feature the likes of Cary Gran…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 11:01AMFriday, July 29, 2011
"We’re a theater for actors, Berkshires-based actors," Bell-Devaney says proudly of her new company, Berkshire Actors Theatre. That’s why she chose an actors’ play for the company’s …
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 05:58AMInspired by this true story as chronicled by Osha Gray Davidson in his book, "The Best of Enemies," St. Germain has crafted an insightful, quite often funny, highly theatrical play about the…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 05:57AMTaut. Incisive. Focused. Penetrating. Not words one readily applies to Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s towering novel, "Crime and Punishment." They are perfect, however, for the treatment collaborato…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 05:55AMSunday, July 24, 2011
Picking up where director David Cromer left off with his production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" earlier this summer at Williamstown Theatre Festival's Nikos Stage, director Sam Gold has de…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 01:40PMGreg Keller’s new play, "Dutch Masters," is drawn from life. "It happened to a friend of mine in high school," Keller explained during a recent interview at Berkshire Theatre Festival’s …
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 01:35PMFriday, July 22, 2011
STOCKBRIDGE -- Greg, the pivotal character in A.R. Gurney's charming, oh-so-smart and winning comedy, "Sylvia" -- which is being given a charming, oh-so-smart and winning production at Berks…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:28AMNEW LEBANON, N.Y. -- The setting and set-up for "The Hollow" is vintage Agatha Christie -- a weekend at a house on the outskirts of London at which have gathered a collection of people whose…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:26AMBENNINGTON, Vt. -- Neil Simon cut his professional teeth as the youngest member of the writing staff for Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows." And what a stable of hands to work with -- among t…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:25AMThe press material for "Mormons, Mothers and Monsters," the newest and among the more misguided projects of Barrington Stage Company’s Musical Theatre Lab, suggests a playful, witty musica…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:24AMFriday, July 15, 2011
There was an understandably festive air in the people-choked lobby of the Colonial Theatre Saturday night. Roughly eight weeks shy of the handsomely restored theater's opening on Aug. 29, 20…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 07:24PM"Romeo and Juliet" is the first Shakespeare play director Daniela Varon ever read. "It's the first Shakepeare play I loved," Varon said during an interview in the lobby of Shakespeare & Comp…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 07:22PMMonday, July 11, 2011
For actress Karen Allen, Michael Weller’s "Moonchildren" was a play more heard about than seen.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:43PMGretchen Egolf and Myra Lucretia Taylor, two extremely smart and resourceful actresses, are giving two vigorous and passionate performances in director Tyler Marchant's clean, uncluttered pr…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:40PM"Moonchildren" resonates more forcefully in the generous samplings of Dylan's music used by director Karen Allen than it does in Weller's text.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:39PMValentine's Day doesn't come around again for another eight months or so but love clearly is in the air at Shakespeare & Company, where director Tony Simotes' luminous, and illuminating, pro…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:38PMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Cromer's "Streetcar " is a raw, muscular, searing drama about an instinctively abusive man and the collateral damage that comes as a result. It is, at times, exhilirating and gripping; at ot…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 06:22AMSaturday, June 25, 2011
On the surface, there is a certain air of worn familiarity about Shelagh Stephenson's "The Memory of Water": On the night before and morning of the funeral of their mother, three sisters try…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 03:11PMTuesday, August 18, 2009
Tuesday, Aug. 18
EDITOR'S NOTE: This review will appear in Wednesday's print edition of the Berkshire Eagle.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 01:57PM 
