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.
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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.
Bits & Bytes: High Peaks Festival; ‘FRACTURED DREAMS’ debut; ‘Compass: A Horror Play’; ‘Uncertainty’ at the Mahaiwe; Tschabalala Self at Art Omi
WAM Theatre has announced a Berkshire County tour of “FRACTURED DREAMS,” a collaborative devised production between WAM’s new Elder Ensemble and its Teen Ensemble.
THEATRE REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s 10×10 New Play Festival an oasis in a bleak, wet Berkshire winter
The 10 10-minute plays, divided by one intermission, feature 10 playwrights who, each with remarkable economy, illuminate some aspect of life—in the everyday, in the home or in the news—as we are living it, like it or not, in this 2019 winter of discontent.
THEATRE REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s 10×10 New Play Festival a perfect midwinter offering
The play that ends the first half of the program, ‘Pipeline’ written by Michael Brady and directed by Julianne Boyd, is utterly moving and effective as three exuberant protestors on the edge of a mountain forest in south Berkshire County are confronted by an actual moment of disaster.
THEATRE REVIEW: Two Durangs at BTG: ‘Sister Mary Ingatius,’ promiscuous thoughts, attitudes redefine tragi-comedy
This production, featuring so much talent, is about the best it can be in a world where our expectations of people in power is so often betrayed these days.
THEATRE REVIEW: Barrington Stage off to excellent start with ‘Typhoid Mary’
For much of what works, thanks goes to the director, Matthew Penn, who has taken the play to a higher plane than the script calls for.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Jewish Survival in Albania and Kosova;’ screenwriting competition; senior center art exhibit; ‘Remnants’ at Williams; WAM Theatre auditions
“Remnants” was first produced for radio in 1992 and is based on 20 years of playwright Henry ‘Hank’ Greenspan’s conversations with Holocaust survivors.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘10×10 Upstreet’ – mini-masterworks at Barrington Stage
This is the way I like to begin spring. New plays that speak volumes in mere minutes. Fine performances that grow characters quickly and definitively.
REVIEW: ‘Mother of the Maid’: Joan of Arc as the modern woman
Tina Packer is moving in the role of Joan of Arc’s mother, Isabelle, a role for which she was seemingly destined. There is an honesty in her acting. Her performance in this play is nothing short of brilliant.
Review: ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,’ Chekhov in ‘Berkshire’ County
Shakespeare & Company is known for its revelatory clarity of dense speech as well as for its comic abilities. It was made for this play.