Tag: theatre

For anyone to tag themselves as a “very stable genius” is tantamount to shouting “fire” in a theater.  

This is indeed a busy Barrington Stage season with an intriguing theme and what appears to be a remarkably varied group of offerings.

What they have put onto the stage is a miracle of steps into what it means to be an American, a Trump-like American.

Why was a play so highly prized in previous centuries so neglected recently? And why had Shakespeare & Company decided to do it now?

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.

"Shipwrecked!...." is a fine example of how an audience can be given more than it can handle and still come out feeling all right.

Berkshire Theatre Group Artistic Associate David Adkins reads from Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.” “We do not discriminate. Our buildings are sanctuaries for everyone to tell their stories. We do not discriminate in which stories we will tell, which culture we may seek to know.” --- BTG Artistic Director Kate Maguire

The first of six scenes from "Wookie," a new play by Levi Green and Adam Gudeon, set in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

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.

Shakespeare & Company’s Education Director Kevin Coleman is a 2016 Tony Award Finalist for Excellence in Theatre Education. “Creativity is our birthright. All art gives us insights into ourselves, keys to our own creativity, and theatre adds a natural experience of cooperation,” he notes.

I cannot recall having such a good time with a political diatribe in my long and involved life, not even when working, years and years ago, for Bella Abzug. back in New York City.

This is not the easiest piece of theater. It is a play every theater lover should get to know. You have an opportunity here.

If this is a portrait of people in real life, then real life needs an overhaul.

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.

This is certainly a worthwhile production of a play. Let your curiosity get the best of you and step out to the local for a dose of late 20th century Irish reality.

At the Ghent Playhouse you are always aware that you are at live theater and not canned, filmed, or perfected performances.