J. Peter Bergman, Author at The Berkshire Edge

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

Arts & Entertainment

THEATRE REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s ‘Harry Clarke’ features brightly charged dialogue, constant and instantaneous shifts

Actor Mark H. Dold and director Julianne Boyd have basically morphed into a single interpretive entity, creating a Harry who cannot be real but managed to be very much so after all.

J. Peter Bergman

Viewpoints

400(0) years

I never forgot our conversation. It meant so much to be found worthy of sympathy because of the history of my people and be found to be a "brother" in his world of discrimination and slavery extended.

J. Peter Bergman

Viewpoints

USA stands for . . . what?

We are 50 states, technically. We are fighting a war, fighting for our lives, but we are not united in the battle.

J. Peter Bergman

Arts & Entertainment

Berkshire theaters make history: Partial summer season approved

It seems that both Berkshire Theatre Group and Barrington Stage Company are on the right track to restoring our sense of what is beautiful and possible in our lives starting in August.

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

J. Peter Bergman

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.

J. Peter Bergman

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.

J. Peter Bergman

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.

J. Peter Bergman

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.

J. Peter Bergman

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