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.
Tag: Boyd-Quinson Mainstage
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 closing down of our theaters brings about.
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.
THEATRE REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s ‘American Underground’ is powerful, important and necessary
The reality it projects is close at hand and I witness its growth every morning on my TV. See it!
Business Briefs: ‘The Barrington Stage Experience’; cannabis certification; RSYP apprenticeships; Salisbury Bank donates to CDC; Place Corps at Hawthorne Valley
Berkshire Community College is launching a one-year cannabis certificate program designed to provide students with skills and knowledge to work professionally in the areas of cannabis cultivation, processing, preparation, retail and outreach.
REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s ‘Fall Springs’ is a cartoon, and not a good one
There is a cautionary environmental tale in ‘Falls Springs,’ and highfalutin moral lessons, too, but it’s all played so broadly, it’s just plain silly.
REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s ‘Gertrude and Claudius’ would benefit from more drama, chemistry
In the program’s notes, St. Germain pinpoints the goal: “What works on the page needs to take on its own vivid life on the stage.” Does it? Despite the play’s intelligence, erudition and beautifully crafted language, sadly, not so much.
THEATRE REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s intellectual ‘Gertrude and Claudius’ lacks passion
It’s not the language that makes this play what it is and what it isn’t. There is emotion missing in the cleverness of the dialogue and the letters exchanged.
THEATRE REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s ‘Into the Woods’ features exceptional, fascinating group of performers
This production is the finest I’ve seen and a memorable experience from top to bottom.
THEATRE REVIEW: Solid productions of ‘The Glass Menagerie’ and ‘Naked’ conclude a versatile summer theater season
The conclusion of “Naked” is riveting, all the more so for its prescient reverberations to the temper of our times.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘West Side Story’ at Barrington Stage is one of the most rapturous, thrilling evenings of musical theater anywhere
Many theater companies aspire to recreate faithfully AND freshly great American musicals but few achieve the drama and vitality that’s currently on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage.