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.
Tag: Ghent Playhouse
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.
THEATRE REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘The Cemetery Club’ plays out with potential on a terrific set
“The Cemetery Club” is enjoyable enough and with a few more performances, should jell into the sort of appetizer that makes a season into a delectable dinner party.
THEATRE REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘A View From the Bridge’ the best of the season
The drama is potent and powerful and pleasant to watch in this well-staged, nicely acted edition.
Ghent Playhouse’s ‘Miracle on South Division Street’ describes family meeting, features extraordinary cast
For a play I’ve never heard of to end up a new favorite is a delight to me.
REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’ a cross-dressing fairy tale with wit, music and political barbs
While I could have gone home happier with some truly barbarous barbs, the show still entertained and delighted, and the audience had almost as good a time as the company.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘The Father’ at the Ghent Playhouse a fine job with a difficult play, subject
Kudos to the theater company for taking on such an unusual play about such a difficult topic.
Berkshire Theatre Critics Association defines categories for third season
The object of the selection of winners is not to single out the “best” in any category, but to reward the outstanding elements of the season, the work that is not possible to forget, that stands out, that exemplifies excellence.
THEATRE REVIEW: Once again ‘Our Town,’ this time with new life
Every once in a while, something happens to transform this play and bring it back to its origins and, when that happens, as it did on stage at the Ghent Playhouse, it transforms me and my feelings about the play.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘Clever Little Lies’ at Ghent Playhouse, funny and thoughtful
In a season defined thus far by the shallowness of parody, this play is a mood- and mode-changer, bringing us deeper and more thoughtful theater.
PREVIEW: Delight, deceit and desire at Shakespeare & Company’s 2018 season
The company is offering a 40 percent discount on tickets to full-time, year-round residents of Berkshire County.
Bits & Bytes: Educators’ symposium at Norman Rockwell Museum; Radius Playwrights Festival; ‘Clever Little Lies’ at the Ghent Playhouse; BioEYES science program
The Radius Playwrights Festival features fully staged readings of the six selected new short plays created by local writers within a 50-mile radius of Great Barrington.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Four Freedoms’ talk at Norman Rockwell Museum; ‘Living Younger Longer’ at Fairview; Ghent Playhouse seeks directors
On Jan. 6, 1941, in his annual address to Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt argued that freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear should be accepted as human rights not only in the United States, but across the world.
Bits & Bytes: Parade of Lights; ‘Messiah’ sing-in; ‘A Day in the Life of a Girl and Boy’ family day; ‘The Little Mermaid;’ Monica Rizzio at the Egremont Barn
At the Norman Rockwell Museum family day author Will Lach will hold a reading and talk about the books, and have a conversation with model Mary Whalen Leonard, who posed for several of Rockwell’s most beloved paintings.
Bits & Bytes: NAACP awards dinner; W.E.B. Du Bois Falseworkshop; ‘Chicken People’ at Mason Library; Abigail Pogrebin at Knosh & Knowledge; Ghent Playhouse auditions
The Falseworkshop will focus on W.E.B. Du Bois’s global reach as a political thinker and activist, in preparation for the town of Great Barrington’s celebration of Du Bois’s sesquicentennial in 2018.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Opulent Emporiums;’ Cohen, Krauss at Southfield Church; Chicken Day at Scoville Library; ‘Greater Tuna’ auditions
At Chicken Day Leslie Watkins will tell stories about her flock of Bantam hens and their rooster friends and will describe what makes chickens such interesting social creatures.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Guitar’ exhibit; ‘Art from Farm to Table;’ FilmWorks Forum; ‘True West’ at Ghent Playhouse
‘Art from Farm to Table’ includes depictions and interpretations of landscapes, buildings, farm life, flowers, vegetables, insects and animals–everything found in an agricultural environment that might, or might not, end up on a table.
Bits & Bytes: Shoreline surveys; Pittsfield Green Drinks; Riotous Youth scholarship; Williams announces commencement speaker; ‘True West’ auditions
“Stream Team” volunteers will walk or paddle along assigned segments of the Housatonic and Green rivers and record information along the way.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Mothers and Sons;’ Lino Taglipietra exhibit; student art show; ‘Montgomery Place: An American Arcadia;’ 350Mass Berkshires meeting
The historic property of Montgomery Place in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, part of Bard College since 2016, encompasses over 300 acres and features notable architecture, richly furnished interiors, exceptional vistas, orchards, woodland trails and gardens.
Bits & Bytes: Travel photography workshop; ‘Christians and Jews Under the Muslim Crescent;’ ‘Mothers and Sons’ auditions; ‘Reel Theology’ at Hevreh; ‘The Irish Bridget’
Hazza Abu Rabia is a lecturer of Arabic language and Islamic studies at the University of Hartford’s Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and at Central Connecticut State University.
Bits & Bytes: ‘XXYY;’ Edge editor, publisher speaking at KI luncheon; ‘Once Upon a Mattress;’ Dalton preschool open house; 350Mass Berkshires meeting
‘XXYY’ is a poetic and otherworldly dance-theater event exploring the multiplicities of the gender spectrum while deconstructing the conventional binaries of male and female.
REVIEW: ‘Turn of the Scrooge,’ Pantoloons’ hilarious update of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Unlike other years where the jokes at the expense of politicians, local and national, are hooters, this season’s barbs are blurred by everyone’s sense of what is going on in the country.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Messiah’ sing-in; Tinseliner™ train rides; Ghent Playhouse panto; marionettes at Olana
The Berkshire Bach Players is a seasoned instrumental ensemble of professional musicians including Lucy Bardo on cello and trumpet player Allan Dean along with Miriam Shapiro and Cindy Olgunick on violin, Eric Martin on viola, and Donald Sosin on organ.
From Stage Center: The Berkshire Theatre Awards
Founded by North Adams resident and critic Larry Murray, from Berkshire On Stage, with the assistance of a small group of other devoted theater-goers and writers, the awards are intended to be a yearly celebration of the finest work done in the region between October 1 and September 30 every year.
Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Botanical Garden Harvest Festival; ‘Earth Dialogue;’ GB Cultural Council applications; ‘The 39 Steps;’ Newsboy monument rededication; Berkshire Human Rights Speaker Series
The rededication event will celebrate the recent conservation treatment that restored the physical and historical integrity of Great Barrington’s Newsboy Statue and will include a public viewing of the monument and working fountain.
Bits & Bytes: New minister for Christ Trinity Church; Ghent Playhouse auditions; Stonover Farm art exhibition; Jonathan Epstein performance & talk; Sharon Church at Sienna Patti
Ordained a Lutheran with graduate degrees and training from Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist and Congregational institutions including Harvard Divinity School, Rev. Dr. Randall K. Wilburn also received training from the Sisters of Mercy and is a Spiritual Director.
REVIEW: Imperfect but enjoyable Molière at Ghent Playhouse
This is not the easiest piece of theater. It is a play every theater lover should get to know. You have an opportunity here.
Bits & Bytes: Podcasting workshops; STEM Starter Academy at BCC; Popovich Comedy Pet Theater at the Colonial; ‘Berning Man’ at Club Helsinki; Ghent auditions update
BCC’s STEM Starter Academy aims to provide students with the tools they need to be STEM-ready in college and the workplace and will include academic support, tutoring, special field trips, guest speakers, and a STEM Academy Success Kit.
REVIEW: “Boeing, Boeing,” a hilarious comic romp
What Director Cathy Lee-Visscher has managed to do is to take something old and familiar and redefine it into something new and familiar at the same time
Bits & Bytes: BFWW closing weekend; MGRSD spring musical; Oakes and Smith EP release; bird nest workshop; Ghent Playhouse auditions
The Mt. Greylock high School production of ‘Nice Work If You Can Get it’ involves more than 40 members of MGRSD’s student body as actors, singers, pit musicians, and crew.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Boeing, Boeing’ at the Ghent Playhouse; Hillcrest St. Patrick’s celebration; Berkshire HorseWorks workshop; Kirsten Johnson screening; Easter egg decorating at Ventfort Hall
Hillcrest Educational Centers will honor Massachusetts State Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg as its Irish Person of the Year.
THEATRE: A short look at the Berkshire’s summer 2016 season
The big patterns here are outlying theaters putting on shows already seen in the Berkshires and a slew of inventive and new plays and musicals making our stages into their try-out venues.