Theatre
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Barrington Switches Arthur Miller Plays
All My Sons Replaces The Price
By: - Feb 13th, 2012Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, has had to make a change to its 2012 Mainstage season. The previously announced production of Arthur Miller’s “The Price†has been dropped from the season. A Broadway revival is planned of the 1968 Tony-winning drama. In its place is Miller’s Tony winning “All My Sons":
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Enron at the TimeLine in Chicago To April 15
Lucy Prebble's London Hit Sizzles in the Windy City
By: - Feb 12th, 2012The sub-prime mortgage crisis was created just like Enron itself. Figuring out how to create financial instruments from 'air', by simply promoting them. A few make a ton of money. Most people suffer. This lively production in Chicago makes you wonder if we can stop the trend.
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WAM Theatre Announces 2012 Season
24hr Project, WordxWord Festival, The Old Mezzo
By: - Feb 09th, 2012The second 24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project, co-produced with MOPCO, will take place on April 13 + 14 at Shakespeare and Company in the Bernstein Theatre complex with a public performance taking place at 8pm on Saturday, April 14.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival at the Clark Feb. 27
Reading of Moliere's The Misanthrope
By: - Feb 01st, 2012Williamstown Theatre Festival announced today a reading of Richard Wilbur’s translation of Moliere’s classic French comedy The Misanthrope, to be held at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA on Monday, February 27th at 7:00 PM. Proceeds from the event will go to Higher Ground, a new organization formed in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene to address affordable housing and disaster relief issues in the Northern Berkshires.
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Annette Miller Nominated for Carbonell Award
16-Year Veteran of Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jan 31st, 2012Annette Miller was recently nominated for a prestigious Carbonell Award, which recognizes excellence in South Florida Theatre. Miller was nominated for her role as Violet Weston in the Actors’ Playhouse production of August: Osage County , the critically-acclaimed play by Tracy Letts, which was the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies
Boston's Lyric Stage February 17 to March 17
By: - Jan 30th, 2012Widely hailed as one of the best new Broadway plays, Time Stands Still is the story of Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent, who are reeling after a recent brush with death while on an assignment. Will their relationship of nearly a decade be more threatened by a traditional go at domesticity than the roadside bombs of Baghdad?
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Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage Company
Bringing Year Round Theatre and Programming To Pittsfield
By: - Jan 28th, 2012During a luncheon meeting with the media Julianne Boyd, the artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, went beyond just highlighting the coming season of productions. She conveyed the year round commitment and involvement with the Pittsfield community. It helps us to understand how in its fifteen years BSC has grown into one the nation's foremost theartical and educational organizations.
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Mark St.Germain to Premiere Dr. Ruth
A New Works Initiative for Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jan 27th, 2012The playwright Mark St.Germain has a long relationship with Julianne Boyd and BSC. He is a board member and artistic associate. Now he is the first recipient of a New Work initiative and program which, this season, will see the world premiere of Dr. Ruth.
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Barrington Stage Company Announces 2012 Season
Fiddler, Arthur Miller, Mark St. Germain Headline
By: - Jan 26th, 2012It would be difficult to match the success of the 2011 season of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. The company set records with its productions of Guys and Doll and a riveting new work by Mark. St. Germain, Best of Enemies. But in a press conference Julianne Boyd, artistic director of BSC, stated that she doesn't want to repeat herself. Opening with a musical, Fiddler on the Roof, Arthur Miller and a farce directed by John Rando, however, looks sure to run the table on the Main Stage. With St. Germain's new Dr. Ruth among the tricks up her sleeve for Stage 2.
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Huntington Theatre To Present Our Town
December Production by David Cromer
By: - Jan 26th, 2012Huntington Theatre Company announces that its 2012-2013 Season will include MacArthur “Genius†David Cromer’s groundbreaking new production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic Our Town December 7, 2012 – January 13, 2013. Cromer will direct and play the Stage Manager, a role he previously performed in Chicago and Off Broadway productions.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Springs Leaks
WTF Veteran Blythe Danner to Return This Summer
By: - Jan 19th, 2012My foxy colleague Larry Murray of Berkshire On Stage caught us napping. He scoops the return of Blythe Danner to Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Jenny Gersten Previews WTF Season
More to Follow
By: - Jan 19th, 2012A Preview Production of Far From Heaven, a new musical with a book by Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out), an original score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) and directed by Michael Greif (Rent; WTF’s Three Sisters), will play the Main Stage from July 19 – 29, 2012; the World Premiere of Lucy Boyle’s new play The Blue Deep will play the Nikos Stage from July 11 – July 22, 2012, directed by Drama Desk Award-winner Bob Balaban (Gosford Park; WTF’s “Fridays@3â€) and featuring Tony Award-winner (and Williamstown veteran) Blythe Danner (“Meet the Parentsâ€; WTF’s The Seagull).
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Tony Simotes Plays His Markers on Berkshire Theatre
Getting Shakespeare & Company Back on Track
By: - Jan 11th, 2012In announcing a stunning, star studded program for the 35th season of Shakespeare & Company, now in his third season as artistic director, Tony Simotes provided indicators of what to expect in the future. This summer he will play his aces with former teacher and friend Olympia Dukakis in The Tempest. The company's homegrown star, John Douglas Thompson, returns after a hiatus in a new one man play Satchmo at the Waldorf.
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God of Carnage Lays Witty Waste at Huntington Theatre
A Comedy of Good Intentions but Bad Manners
By: - Jan 11th, 2012Two upper middle class couples meet to negotiate the damage done by one couple's eleven year old hitting the others' eleven year old with a stick. Add wit and today's lifestyles and the result is comedic carnage. The play goes from a polite discussion of child rearing and soon escalates into verbal fireworks. Award winning God of Carnage lays waste to each of the four characters and our notions of parenting. It should be seen and heard.
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Shakespeare & Company 35th Season
Olympia Dukakis and John Douglas Thompson
By: - Jan 10th, 2012For the 35th season of Shakespeare & Company there is a stunning contrast between the old- King Lear and the Tempest- and the new Satchmo at the Waldorf. Olympia Dukakis will play Prospero in The Tempest. In a play being written and developed by Wall Street Journal drama critic, Terry teachout, John Douglas Thompson returns to Lenox in a one man show focusing on jazz legend Louis Armstrong and his mobbed up manager Joe Glaser
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Superior Donuts Delicious At Lyric Stage Company
Tasty Comedy/Drama Food For Thought
By: - Jan 08th, 2012Set in a shabby Chicago neighborhood, a downtrodden former hippy donut shop owner hires a street-savvy aspiring young writer with hustle and bright ideas. Elegantly directed by Spiro Veloudos, this is a play full of pathos, laughs and compelling characters. Written by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of August: Osage County, this drama mixes the challenge of embracing one's past with the redemptive power of friendship. This is a must see and tell your friends comedy/drama.
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Red Masterpiece at SpeakEasy Stage Company
Thomas Derrah Channels Mark Rothko
By: - Jan 08th, 2012Winner of six 2010 Tony Awards including Best Play, Red is a glowing colorful portrait of an artist’s ego, ambition and vulnerability. After he lands the biggest commission in the history of modern art, first generation abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko begins work on a series of large paintings (murals) assisted by a new young artist assistant. What takes place between the two men is a master class on the methods and purpose of art and the dynamic relationship between an artist, his creations and his life purpose.
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Year Ends on High Note for S&Co.
Looking forward to 34Th Season
By: - Jan 04th, 2012With its 34th Performance Season still running until March 25, Shakespeare & Company Artistic Director Tony Simotes announces a strong end to its 2011 performance year on both critical and financial fronts.
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The Pearl Theatre Does Richard II Proud
An Apt Play for Our Times
By: - Dec 19th, 2011Ambition, greed and corruption stalk our lands. But we are not really different from most historical periods. Is this the necessary condition of man? The Pearl production provokes this question in a lively staging.
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Chorus Line Opens Colonial Summer
Great Mix for Berkshire Theatre Group’s Second Season
By: - Dec 10th, 2011For the second season this summer there will be head to head musicals in Pittsfield. Berkshire Theatre Group has announced that A Chorus Line will be presented at the Colonial Theatre. While a few blocks away Barrington Stage will feature Fiddler on the Roof. Both theatre companies have yet to announce their complete summer season of plays and performances.
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Three Pianos At American Repertory Theatre
A Delicious Toast to Franz Schubert and His Music
By: - Dec 08th, 2011Many laughs and a few tears unfold on a wintery night when three musically gifted friends find a copy of Schubert's song cycle Winterreise. Each with a piano and talented trained voices, the trio plays and sings into an often dreamlike reenactment of a Schubertiad—a musical salon often given by the composer and his friends. Butchering of the German language results as they wrestle with fundamental questions about the nature of music, love, and friendship. This OBIE-winning music-theater event wowed New York audiences and critics during a sold-out run. It wows at A.R.T. as well.
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle at Berliner Ensemble
Bertold Brecht - Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
By: - Nov 27th, 2011It's a storied threatre, the Berliner Ensemble! Bertold Brecht premiered his 'Three Penny Opera' there in 1929. He opened with 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' in 1954, when he took over the theatre at Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. Today's production, presented with a 2011 vision by director Manfred Karge and ensemble, delivered food for thought as it did in 1954.
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Girls Only at the Garner Galleria in Denver
Plus Ca Change But Not Quite La Meme Chose
By: - Nov 25th, 2011In the cabaret venue of the Denver Performing Arts Center, women of all ages gathered to hear and participate in stories about growing up which haven't changed much over the years, but are fresh and achingly funny here.
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Thanksgiving in America Presented at the Denver Arts Center
American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose
By: - Nov 24th, 2011In Denver where the purple mountains majesty rises above the plains, the playwright Richard Montoya takes a satirical but also heart-rending look at American history. This take is based more on Howard Zinn than Sarah Palin.
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Life in Lake Quabbigon Gone Honk
With Apologies to Garrison Keillor
By: - Nov 21st, 2011Where all the artists draw with finer lines, musicians play more melodious chords and cows give sweeter milk. Randy Stevens, she lives just a short piece down the road here, talked some about how some of the darker events in her life have affected her vision and her creations.
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