After 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.

West Palm Beach Dramaworks Speakers Series featured the 92-year-old lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick.

Serge Sabarsky was co-founded of the Neue Gallery, one of the most learned and charming places in New York. Cafe Sabarsky offers an Austrian menu. Often you can find cabaraet Artists like Rachelle Garniez performing.

Barrington Stage Company adds a reading of the musical Butterflies, Speech & Debate on the St. Germain Stage, and its annual youth production, Bye Bye Birdie, at the Pittsfield Museum.

Rebecca Havely has selected the powerful military courtroom drama “A Few Good Men”, written by Academy and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin as her directing choice for 2017. St. Joseph's Players in Yucca Valley, California, is only a stone’s throw away from one of largest Marine bases in the country.

The 36th season will include four plays at the Huntington Avenue Theatre, as well as three plays at the Wimberly Theatre and one special event in the Roberts Studio Theatre, both located in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in the South End.

Love battles evil in Swan Lake and Bluebeard's Castle. Yannick Nezet-Seguin, who comes to the Metropolitan Opera in 2021, is a masterful story teller, forging drama and complex pictures in the performance.of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

When the Institute of Contemporary Art opened its waterfront home there were awards for the dramatic design by Diller Scofido and Renfro. Immediately, however, it was obvious that with 65,000 square feet, and just its top floor for exhibitions, there was no plan for expansion and growth. For the next five to ten years the ICA is leasing a 15,000 square foot industrial place in East Boston. Visitors will commute by ferry to the seasonal Watershed which opens in the summer of 2018.

The Ghost Players who emerge from the cornfield in the movie are re-enacted at the movie site by local residents in period White Sox uniforms.

Cast shines in vibrant production of "Anything Goes" at Ft. Myers Dinner Theater through April 1. It is a tasty evening of theatre in every sense.

Who can play Shostakovich better than a Russian? Shostakovich’s Fifth symphony has come down to us as an apology to Stalin during a time of heightened scrutiny not only of artists but of everyone under him. Now it is thought to be a protest against Stalinist terror. Whatever its messages, and messages from Russians continue to be unclear, the music is beautiful, a classical symphony brought forward into the 20th century.

Great wines from the Valpolicella wine region begin with winemaker Mauro Bustaggi and his great gravity-fed winemaking skills.

Geffen’s Artistic Director Randall Arney, took on the challenge of producing O’Neill’s masterpiece. Staged by acclaimed director Jeanie Hackett, this revival of “Long Day’s Journey into Night” features gifted actors: the superb Alfred Molina as James Tyrone , the brilliant Jane Kaczmarek as morphine addicted Mary Tyrone, Stephen Louis Grush as the star-crossed and fated Jamie Tyrone, and Colin Woodell as young Edmund Tyrone (the alter-ego of Eugene O’Neill), a poet/writer battling tuberculosis and alcoholism.

Crackskull Row is an eighty-minute tone poem composed in the lilting Irish language. It is a quartet, the characters: a women, a man, their son and an angel, who is perhaps an aborted fetus of a girl who comes to life. She arrives on the tiny set, a perfect stage for this intimate yet profoundly resonating drama, by sliding down the chimney. She lands on a blood stain which sends a son to jail for 33 years and also on the spot where the fetus was deposited.

The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2016.

Glenn Close is the magnet that is filling the house – the musical has already been extended a month – and everything, from her glittering silver and gold lame wardrobe (Anthony Powell), makeup (Charlotte Hayward), wigs (Andrew Simonin), the set (James Noone), and even the other actors in the play who mostly fade into the background when Close is on stage, play second fiddle to her electrifying presence which at times threatens to ignite the theater.

When Andris Nelsons stepped on to the Carnegie Hall stage as the last minute substitute for James Levine, we did not know that the event would be as momentous as Leonard Bernstein's last minute substitution for an aiiling Bruno Walter. Who knows how these seminal moments will be ranked in musical history. So much lies before the the young conductor. Performance after performance Nelsons and his musician collaborators from the Boston Symphony exceed themselves.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" forces audiences to examine their prejudices. bcast mostly excels in production of Harper Lee classic at Florida Repertory Theatre.

Alexander Hamilton may have created the financial system that made building John D. Rockefeller's fortune possible. Now Rockefeller money is being used to fund tickets for Title 1 school children to attend the hottest show in town, "Hamilton."

In 1977, playwright/director Luis Valdez, brought his play “Zoot Suit” to Gordon Davidson, the Artistic Director of the Mark Taper Forum with the hope that one of the country’s most prestigious Regional Theatres would produce his controversial story of social injustice and police brutality toward Latino’s in the city of Angels. And he wanted to do it with a cast of mostly Latino performers.

The national tour production, of 2015 Tony winner Fun Home is now on the stage of The Ahmanson Theatre. It is an eye-opening and somewhat of a ground-breaking production, in that it tells the story of a gay young woman’s sexual awakening in a troubled Pennsylvania family.

On the edge of the Mexican jungle, a seedy hotel is the meeting place of several desperate characters. Directed by Michael Wilson (Broadway's The Trip to Bountiful, The Best Man), Williams’ feverishly poetic 1961 drama follows a hotel proprietress and the scandal-soaked Southern preacher who turns up on her veranda. A Nantucket portrait artist traveling with her ancient poet grandfather, a bus of fuming Texan college students and administrators, and a party of German vacationers collide in this drama about how far we travel to outrun the demons within. With a star-studded cast, this production may be the must-see event of the 2016-2017 theatrical season.

The Berkshire-based professional theatre company celebrates its eighth year with two Main Stage productions, a thought-provoking series of play readings, and several exciting new collaborations and initiatives 2.017 season explores a broad range of perspectives around issues affecting women and girls.

Linda comes across the pond after creating a stir on the West End. No question that the title role performance by Jamie Dee is worth the price of the ticket. Perhaps because we live in a Sephora culture in the US, the issues do not seem quite so relevant in New York. Yet Lynne Meadow directing keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Tinazzi was founded in 1968, which is quite recent for a winery that produces over two million bottles of wine a year. Valpolicella shines on the vineyards 110 acres near Lake Garda in Veneto.