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.
Tuesday, 22 Aug 2017 - The lack of real logic – of reality itself, in all honesty – is at the root of the trouble here.
Sunday, 6 Aug 2017 - Find a ticket somewhere and see one of the great American playwright's finest works acted by a company of players who are defining her work for us.
Monday, 31 Jul 2017 - This work is certainly never dull. However it never provides a new idea or thought ... nor does it leave us feeling that we have experienced a new work, but only a second-rate version of something we have known for eons.
Friday, 28 Jul 2017 - Your discomfort is gratefully accepted by the people on stage and off stage.
Thursday, 27 Jul 2017 - Director Sam Buntrock clearly has a touch for this type of play. Hopefully he will do more of them, and do them here where we can see them.
Tuesday, 25 Jul 2017 - The magical realism of Ruhl's fine play is almost a warning to the audience: We are alerted to the possibilities of what the world holds in store for us.
Friday, 21 Jul 2017 - It all combines into one of the best shows in the area this summer, and I feel sure that will still be the case two months from now when it's all winding down.
Thursday, 20 Jul 2017 - Tackling this play, including editing it cleanly, is an achievement, one that director Tina Packer has undertaken nobly and completed successfully. I would not have missed this for anything.
Monday, 17 Jul 2017 - I found no one character in the play likeable enough to sympathize or empathize with from beginning to end.
Wednesday, 12 Jul 2017 - People from all over the region depend on their annual Christie and, this year, they will not be disappointed by a single moment of it.
Monday, 10 Jul 2017 - It is summer for these women on stage and they transform summer into an attractive fall: a fall from grace, a fall from anxiety and a fall into the autumn of our lives.
Sunday, 2 Jul 2017 - What they have put onto the stage is a miracle of steps into what it means to be an American, a Trump-like American.
Tuesday, 27 Jun 2017 - It's as though the tale of what makes an American what an American is needs to be retold intensely at least once a decade.
Wednesday, 21 Jun 2017 - This is not your typical summer fare, not like the Hitchcock movie would have been: This is important theater presented in an important way.
Thursday, 15 Jun 2017 - Hadden – the author, the storyteller and the son – is an actor who can divide himself superbly into two similar men who are so very much alike.
Saturday, 3 Jun 2017 - Talented people are at work here. They make the everyday interesting and the fascinating obsessive.