338 stories from The Berkshire Eagle
LENOX -- For Broadway and TV actress Idina Menzel of "Rent," "Wicked" and the Fox network's "Glee," the dream started in 1982 at the former Camp Olympus in the Catskills, near Monticello, N.…
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…
Friday August 19, 2011
What: "Period of Adjustment" by Tennessee Williams
Who: Berkshire Theatre Group
When: Now through Sept.
Seduction, betrayal and revenge are the premises of "The Game," which opens officially Wednesday evening at 7, following a series of public previews that began Thursday.
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…
Post-modernist choreographer Trisha Brown has gone through many "lives" in her amazing
Friday August 12, 2011 Special to the Eagle
PITTSFIELD -- We constantly are reminded of the great distances the American musical has traveled
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 Fitzpatrick …
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, graspin…
WILLIAMSTOWN -- 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 W…
PITTSFIELD - Tommy Tune: Remarkable and hard to miss, at six feet, seven inches tall, the singing voice, as always, clear and mellow, the choreographic ideas continuing to flow, and even mor…
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…
Tommy Tune: Remarkable and hard to miss, at six feet, seven inches tall, the singing voice, as always, clear and mellow, the choreographic ideas continuing to flow, and even more remarkable,…
Ten-thousand pingpong balls randomly rain over Jonah Bokaer's latest choreography, but this 29-year-old's work is no child's play.
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…
"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 inaugura…
Inspired 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…
Taut. Incisive. Focused. Penetrating. Not words one readily applies to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's towering novel, "Crime and Punishment." They are perfect, however, for the treatment collaborators…
Friday July 29, 2011
PITTSFIELD
There’s a new theater company in town and while "Actors" may be its middle name, actors come first in
Friday July 29, 2011
What: "She Stoops to Conquer" by Oliver Goldsmith
Who: Williamstown Theatre Festival
When: Tonight through Aug.
Friday July 29, 2011
What: "Four Dogs and a Bone" by John Patrick Shanley
Who: Berkshire Actors Theatre
When: Wednesday through Aug.
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…
Greg 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 Unic…
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…
NEW 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…
