Berkshire Theatre Group
Berkshire Theatre Group combines the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge and the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. There is a mix of year round performances at the Colonial and seasonal theatre in Stockbridge.
- Contact Person:
- Kate Maguire artistic director
- Address:
- Colonial Theatre
- Berkshire Theatre Festival
- Pittsdfield MA,
- Phone:
- (413) 997-4444
- Website:
- http://www.berkshiretheatregroup.org/
139 BFA References to Berkshire Theatre Group
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Children of a Lesser God at BTG Front Page
A Story of Love, Communication and Connection
By: - Jun 30th, 2017With the rise of so many platforms of communication in today's world, are we really hearing one another? Children of a Lesser God focuses on truly listening and communicating in the world of the deaf. It portrays a love story between a hearing man and a woman who neither hears nor speaks. Their communication and connection are powerful to see in stellar performances by the lead actors, Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff. The play runs to July 22 at Berkshire Theatre Group in Stockbridge, Mass.
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Million Dollar Quartet at BTG Front Page
A Fantastic Night of Epic Rock 'n' Roll
By: - Jun 21st, 2017Million Dollar Quartet is based on a true story of a rare event - the coming together in one studio of four rock 'n' roll legends: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Set on December 4, 1956, at Sun Records in Memphis, It was a night to remember for all rock n' roll fans!
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Remembering Critic Larry Murray Front Page
Founded Berkshire Theatre Awards
By: - Mar 11th, 2017After a long illness, on March 10, the widely respected publisher and editor of Berkshire on Stage and Screen, Lawrence “Larry” Murray, passed away. He organized the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association. Last November he rallied to attend the First Annual Bertkshire Theatre Awards. He presented the top award, named for him, to Jullian Boyd of Barrington Stage for community service through theatre.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2017 Front Page
Million Dollar Quartet and Music Man on Tap
By: - Feb 16th, 2017BTG is expanding its 2017 summer festival offerings, including The Music Man and the Million Dollar Quartet, Arsenic and Old Lace, as well as two productions by playwrights, Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo (Zoo story) and David Auburn's Lost Lake.
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2016 Berkies Announced Front Page
First Annual Berkshire Theatre Awards
By: - Oct 17th, 2016There has been extensive media coverage of the First Annual Berkshire Theatre Awards. The winners of The Berkies have been announced. There will be an awards celebration 5 pm on November 13 at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret in Pittsfield. In this first round of awards Barrington Stage Company and Shakespeare & Company dominated in most categories. The smash hit Pirates of Penzance ran the table. The Larry Murray Award, named for the founder, will be the only suprise of the gathering of critics, media and theater mavens.
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First Annual Berkshire Theatre Awards Front Page
Berkies Launched by Critic Larry Murray
By: - Oct 14th, 2016For the first annual Berkshire Theatre Awards seven shows received more than five nominations each including 11 for The Pirates of Penzance and eight for Broadway Bounty Hunter, both produced by Barrington Stage Company. Seven nominations were received for Or, and six for The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare & Company. Also popular with five nominations each are The Rose Tattoo (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Little Shop of Horrors (Berkshire Theatre Group), and American Son (Barrington Stage).
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The Bakelite Masterpiece by Kate Cayley Front Page
Faking Vermeers in WAM and Berkshire Theatre Group's Co-Production
By: - Oct 03rd, 2016The Bakelite Masterpiece by Kate Cayley in Stockbridge at the Unicorn Theatre is a co-production of WAM and Berkshire Theatre Group. An artist is on trial for selling Vermeers to the Nazis. He has to make a fake to prove his innocence. The play is based on a true story in post war Holland.
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Berkshire's Fiorello Comes to New York Front Page
BTG Production Transfers With a Wallop
By: - Sep 21st, 2016I happened on the Berkshire Theatre Company production on East 13th Street in New York and was entranced. Packed into a small stage and directed to perfection by Bob Moss, the intimate setting works perfectly for this musical portrait of an oversized man.
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Constellations At Berkshire Theater Group Front Page
Links Quantum Physics with Human Relationships
By: - Aug 12th, 2016A love story set against the backdrop of quantum physics. Brilliantly written and superbly acted, Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat succeed in hitting the high and low notes of their characters' lives, moving seamlessly from one universe to another, and bringing the audience along with them.
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The Stone Witch Front Page
A Play That Deals With Fame, Ambition and Aging
By: - Jul 29th, 2016An ambitious unpublished author is guided to meet his writing idol through an editor. What unravels reveals how fame can isolate, and how ambition can move one to do unexpected things. Judd Hirsch is a marvel, Kristin Griiffith shines and Rupak Ginn turns in a nuanced performance.
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Little Shop of Horrors Gobbles Audience Front Page
Smash Musical Comedy at Colonial Theatre
By: - Jul 10th, 2016A lot of theatre this season is feeding us heavy duty, pc, brain food. But for pure fun release and esape the best show in the Berkshires, Little Shop of Horrors, is presenting a hilarious musical comedy about a man eating plant which is chewing the scenery and devouring audiences at the Colonial Theatre.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Stockbridge Front Page
Mendacity Prevails at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Jun 26th, 2016This summer there will be two Tennessee Williams plays in the Berkshires. The first is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Berkshire Theatre Group in Stockbridge. It is a great play being given a so so production.
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Fiorello! at Uniciorn Stage in Stockbridge Front Page
Political Musical Soars During God Awful Election Year
By: - Jun 21st, 2016Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)a true man of the people was a study in contradiction. Of Italian and Jewish heritage he was an Episcopalian Republican who was elected Mayor of New York on a fusion ticket. A small, portly, homely man in a rumpled suit he possessed towering charisma. The 1959 Tony and Pulitzer winning musical Fiorello! is being given a compressed and powerful production at Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2016 Front Page
Lively Mix of Musicala Plays and Performances
By: - Feb 20th, 2016The Berkshire Theatre Group announces a full schedule of musicals, plays and performances at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield as well as its two stages in Stockbridge. The program includes events from June through October. As usual a musical, Little Shop of Horrors, opens at the Colonial just after the July 4th holiday weekend which launches high season in the Berkshires.
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2015 in the Arts Front Page
Hiphopera, Tap, Berkshires and Beyond
By: - Jan 02nd, 2016In some of the most exciting and insightful productions and performances of the year there was a notable cross pollination and invention as vernacular street cultures and indigenous art forms conflated into high art. Classic works were not just revived but reinvented from the insight out. The best works of 2016 raised the bar through risk taking and challenging audiences. These rare experiences tend to make the majority of what we experience ordinary and enervating. In an era signified by ubiquitous standing ovations what is truly worthy of special recognition?
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2016 Front Page
Winter/ Spring Schedule
By: - Dec 18th, 2015Music at The Colonial Theatre includes, legendary reggae band, The Wailers (part of the 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival); Grammy Award-winning pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, Richard Marx; Grammy Award-winning Walking In Memphis singer, Marc Cohn and “the godfather of British blues,” John Mayall.
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Boston Theatre: More Bad News Front Page
Emerson College Converting Colonial Theatre into Student Center
By: - Oct 09th, 2015If bad luck comes in threes what's next for the Boston theatre community. Today we have reported on the break up of a 33-year-old relationship between the Huntington Theatre Company and Boston University. Now we report news the Emerson College, the owner of the 115-year-old Colonial Theatre has plans to convert it into a student center. These developments were predicted several years ago by then NEA chair Rocco Landesman. As he suggests, here in the Berkshires, there are too many arts organizations pursuing the same limited potential donors.
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The Homecoming by Harold Pinter Front Page
Brutalist Realism at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Oct 04th, 2015Kudos to Berkshire Theatre Group for the tough love of presenting a smash to the head in a stunning production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming. Eric Hill has brilliantly directed a superb cast in an always challenging Pinter play.
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Karen Allen's Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune Front Page
Moonstruck in Stockbrdge
By: - Aug 07th, 2015In the two hander by Terrence McNally, Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune, directed by Karen Allen, the legendary tragic lovers have been transformed into a short order cook (Darren Pettie) and waitress (Angel Desai). It's 3 AM and following what she sees as a one night stand he refuses to leave harboring delusions of love and marriage.
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Hilarious World Premiere by Suzanne Heathcote Front Page
Collaboration with Berkshire Theratre Group Launches New Neighborhood
By: - Jul 19th, 2015In a bold move Berkshire Theatre Group has collaborated with New Neighborhood and a world premiere of its very first production. I Saw My Neighbor On the Train and I Didn’t Even Smile by the brilliant young British playwright, Suzanne Heathcote, is the must see show of the Berkshire season.
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Bells Are Ringing at the Colonial Front Page
Reviving a 1950s Hit Broadway Musical in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 12th, 2015The terrific husband and wife team of Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat star in a revival of the 1950s musical Bells are Ringing. It brings star power to the Colonial in Pittsfield to July 26.
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Deathtrap at Berkshire Theatre Group Front Page
Now Kissing in Stockbridge
By: - Jul 08th, 2015In this staging of Ira Levin's enduring 1978 comic-mystery the men do not kiss. That cause a sensation decades ago on Broadway. The lip smacker is now banned by Levin's estate. But in a play that is chock full of clues you would have to be utterly clueless not to conclude that the washed up playwright Sidney (Gregg Edelman) isn't shagging his former student Clifford (Tom Pecinka). For a fun evening with no heavy lifting get thee to Stockbridge.
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Thoreau or, Return to Walden Front Page
David Adkins Bonkers in the Woods
By: - Jun 21st, 2015If you have read Walden and think you know Henry David Thoreau guess again. The world premiere Thoreau or Return to Walden written by and starring David Adkins, directed by Eric Hill presents the New England transcendentalist and abolitionist as an eccentric just short of lunacy.
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Masha's Seagull at Berkshire Theatre Group Theatre
Stunning Solo by Virginia Scheuer Launches Season
By: - May 23rd, 2015Launching the season on a chilly Memorial Day weekend Bekshire Theatre Group is presenting a variation on Chekhov with Masha's Seagull. In a transfer from Bentonville, Arkansas, directed by Eric Hill it proves to be a family affair. The play is written by Justin Scheuer, stars his wife, Virginia, with set and lighting by their son Nathan. Given the quality of the production it deserves a longer run.
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Northern Berkshires Blockbuster Arts Summer Opinion
From Warhol and Wilco to van Gogh and Inge
By: - May 14th, 2015Now in his final weeks as director of the Clark Art Institute Michael Conforti hosted a media event promoting a blockbuster season for Northern Berkshire County. There were presentations by Joe Thompson for Mass MoCA, Tina Olsen for the Williams College Museum of Art, and Mandy Greenfield for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Notably absent from the media event were North Adams based arts presenters Downstreet, The Eclipse Mill Gallery, The Rudd Museum of Art and the fall annual Williamstown Film Festival.
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