J. Peter Bergman

J. Peter Bergman is the Director of Communications at Herman Melville's Arrowhead. In the past he has been a writer for The Berkshire Eagle, Berkshire's Week, The Advocate, The Berkshire Beacon, The Independent and still contributes to The Chatham Courier and Edge.com and Berkshirebrightfocus.com. He is a novelist, poet and author of short fiction. His book "Counterpoints" won the 2002 Friends of Charles Dickens Award. He has been a paid theater critic since he was 15 years old.

Articles from J. Peter Bergman

Viewpoints

Lamentation for stages gone dark

It is up to our media presenters, newspapers, television and radio news stations, public broadcasting and the like to remind our citizens of the losses to our economy and to our way of life that the c

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Arts & Entertainment

Barrington Stage Company announces special summer season

Julianne Boyd’s company, located in Pittsfield, is the only one of the county’s five principal theater companies to make a move to bring live theater back into play this year.

J. Peter Bergman

Arts & Entertainment

THEATRE REVIEW: Great Barrington Public Theater’s ‘Bear Tales’ a welcome venture at a time when live theater is at a minimum

There is a sense of relevance to the pack of plays, a time-sensitive sensibility that gives even the least of them a reason to be heard and seen right now.

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Arts & Entertainment

THEATRE REVIEW: Hartford Stage’s ‘Jane Eyre’ true to its source, moves beautifully

If, like the women behind me in the theater, you are unfamiliar with "Jane Eyre," you will be joyously and amazingly converted to the world of Charlotte Brontë.

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Arts & Entertainment

THEATRE REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s 10×10 New Play Festival a lively collection to fight off the cold weather

The evening has something for everyone and someone for everything.

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Arts & Entertainment

THEATRE REVIEW: Cast of Ghent Playhouse’s ‘The Chalk Garden’ lives up to the standards set by their predecessors

This is one of the finest shows to appear on the Ghent stage and absolutely a must see for anyone who enjoys, or would like to experience, classic late-20th-century situational comedy.

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Arts & Entertainment

THEATRE REVIEW: Hubbard Hall’s ‘Stupid F*%king Bird’ is amusing, faithful to Chekhov’s intentions

Aaron Posner's play is a little bit loose, a comedy with tragic overtones, that follows the original pretty closely, but moves it into our very own time and place.

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Arts & Entertainment

THEATRE REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘Pinocchio’ a raucous retelling in the panto tradition

There cannot be a better way to address the political mish-mash we live in outside of this adorable theater in Columbia County.

J. Peter Bergman

Arts & Entertainment

THEATRE REVIEW: WAM Theatre’s almost perfect ‘Pipeline’ is strong, moving, makes you think

I want to know what happens to all of these people and to their lives. . . . I want to see this play again, to experience it and learn from it.

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Arts & Entertainment

THEATRE REVIEW: Bridge Street Theatre’s ‘The Subject Was Roses’ combines directorial savvy, acting talent

Having seen the original on Broadway and cherishing much of what I could recall, I was hoping for a passing good show here, but the director and her actors have given me so much more than that.

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