Theatre
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Boffo Barrington Stage Spelling Bee
Hit Musical Returns to the Berkshires
By: - Jun 16th, 2008The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was developed as a workshop by Barrington Stage Company in the winter of 2004. It was a Berkshire hit that summer and went on to Off Broadway and then a 1000 performance run on Broadway that earned six Tony Award nominations of which it won two. This production welcomes Spelling Bee back to the Berkshires.
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The Vince Gatton Interview
Last in Series: I Am My Own Wife at Barrington Stage
By: - Jun 10th, 2008The actor who played 35 roles in I Am My Own Wife tells us how he did it, and his take on the controversial Charlotte von Mahlsdorf.
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Berkshire Theater Notes
The curtain rises on another season
By: - Jun 09th, 2008Another opening, another show as the theater season shifts into high gear. Last minute casting news and scheduling changes to keep you up to date.
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Barrington Stage Company: Part Three
Was Charlotte von Mahlsdorf a Berliner or Bavarian ?
By: - Jun 01st, 2008What's a German accent? A discussion of the choice by author, director, and actor for the play "I Am My Own Wife."
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Sidesplitting Ladies Man at Shakespeare & Company
This Wickedly Funny French Farce is a Rollicking Hit
By: - Jun 01st, 2008French farce at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox consists of slamming doors, ridiculous plot twists, and pratfalls that first delighted Paris audiences in the 1890's. This updated treatment is destined to be the Berkshires biggest Summer hit as Shakespeare & Company launches its 31st season.
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The Caretaker at Berkshire Theatre Festival
Nearly Perfect Production Begins 80th Season
By: - May 29th, 2008Harold Pinter's dark and brooding play about hope and despair remains a classic evening of theater.
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Barrington Stage Company: Part Two
His Own Wife/Husband: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
By: - May 28th, 2008A deeply affecting theater experience has me thinking for days after the final curtain. Part Two of our coverage.
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I Am My Own Wife at Barrington Stage Company
Superb Production Launches Season in Pittsfield
By: - May 26th, 2008Not only does I Am My Own Wife launch the season for the Barrington Stage Company this is also the first productionn in its new Second Stage in downtown Pittsfield. This is the first of three reports on a remarkable peformance by Vince Gatton.
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Ennio! One-Man Spectacle at Huntington Theatre Company's Calderwood Pavilion
A Quick Change Artist Conveying Wit and Wonder
By: - May 26th, 2008A one-man show by a quick-change artist who brilliantly morphs into pop icons of the last few decades sounds a bit old fashion. However, in his own way, Ennio Marchetto is as contemporary as an Ipod. This is an old form that has a new feel. The show is certainly not your great-grandfather's vaudeville. Joy and wit turn often into wonder and much laughter.
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Delightful She Loves Me at Huntington Theatre & At the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Wonderful Musical Ends Nicholas Martin's Tenure
By: - May 24th, 2008This revival of the 1963 highly touted musical at Huntington Theatre Company is warm and summery. The music is melodious; the dancing is amazing: and the performances are just right. It is fun with absolutely no heavy lifting. A sweet farewell to Artistic Director Nichols Martin who will take this play to the Williamstown Theatre Festival in June.
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Cardenio at American Repertory Theatre
Allegedly Shakespearean Play Modernized
By: - May 23rd, 2008Supposedly, Shakespeare had collaborated on a play that was only performed twice in 1613. The play was lost. A new play based upon Cardenio is being premiered at the A.R.T. It certainly is not Shakespearean, and seems to need editing, tightening up and real characters. Other than that, as they say, did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
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American Repertory Theatre Appoints Diane Paulus
Innovative Director to Lead Harvard's A.R.T.
By: - May 16th, 2008Since its founding in 1980, the A.R.T., considered to be one of America's great regional theatres, has been known for its wonderfully edgy, provocative and often spell-binding takes on theatrical productions. After a long pause, a highly regarded new Artistic Director has just been appointed, Diane Paulus.
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Calderwood's The Cry of the Reed Premieres
Contrasts Sufi Humanitarism to Islamic Extremism
By: - May 04th, 2008Family and tribal disfunctionalism are theatrically portrayed through current news headlines set in Turkey and Iraq. Intensity of emotions and relationships are underscored by journalistic opportunism and militant religious fanaticism. The play even has an aggressively searching agnostic musician boyfriend, a flawed woman prophet and Whirling Dervishes.
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Spin by Zeitgeist Stage Company
A Presidential Campaign Comedy
By: - May 02nd, 2008A wisp of a scandal and the Primary campaign is thrown into turmoil in this rollicking comedy at the Boston Center for the Arts.
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Elections & Erections at the A.R.T.
Provocative Cabaret: Apartheid & Today's Politics
By: - Apr 13th, 2008With a few stops in recent history, a highly talented mimic and drag queen tells the outrageous story of contemporary South Africa in biographical narratives, intricate vignettes and amazing characterizations. His matronly alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, is perhaps the most famous white woman in South Africa. Characters tell it like it is and sometimes as it should be with humor & pathos.
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Patti LuPone Sizzles in Broadway Revival of Gypsy
A Standing O for Mama Rose
By: - Apr 02nd, 2008Arthur Laurents, who wrote the book for the 1959 production of "Gypsy" at 90 has directed this revival on Broadway. Patti LuPone is earning rave reviews as arguably the all time best Mama Rose.
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Shining City at Huntington Theatre Company
Haunting Psychological Mystery and Ghost Story
By: - Mar 17th, 2008Conor McPherson tells a modern day ghost story while insightfully delving into contemporary Irish life. Illegitimate children, dysfunctional families and homosexuality are parts of this eerie encounter. But, these only affect the ex-priest. This Dublin tale isn't like listening to the Clancy Brothers.
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Pittsfield Mass: Barrington Stage Company Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd
Spelling Bee Highlights Berkshire Season
By: - Mar 14th, 2008Last year, its most successful to date, the Barrington Stage Company drew an attendance of 45,000. Its artistic director, Julianne Boyd, is committed to bring a diverse program and affordable theatre to the Berkshires.
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Ghost on Stage
Hauntings at the Huntington Theatre Company
By: - Feb 26th, 2008A new show dealing with ghosts is coming to the Huntington--Shining City. PR maven John Michael Kennedy decided to share some scary dramatic history.
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All Hail, Julius Caesar at The American Repertory Theatre
A Contemporary Adaptation that Vividly Commands
By: - Feb 25th, 2008Regime change and political uncertainty are aspects of our own times. This version of William Shakespeare's tragedy is from a distinctive directorial perspective that stimulates our fantasy and imagination. Yet,at the same time, it presents the classic play in a clever, clear and poignant way.
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Trumbo Launches Season for Barrington Stage Company
Reliving the Red Scare and Hollywood Black List
By: - Feb 18th, 2008During the 1947 hearings of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, Dalton Trumbo, was charged with Contempt of Congress and became one of the black listed Hollywood Ten. The play, Trumbo, written by his son Christopher, is based on his remarkable and poignant letters.
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Summer in the Berkshires with the Williamstown Theatre Festival Announces 54th Season
Nicholas Martin Takes Over as Artistic Director for 2008 Season
By: - Feb 16th, 2008In June the final production by Nicholas Martin the musical "She Loves Me" will close at the Huntington Theatre Company, where he has been based since 2000, and open on June 28 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival where he is taking over as artistic director.
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A Magnificent Shakespeare's Actresses in America at the Calderwood Pavilion, Huntington Theatre Company
An One-Woman Tour-de-Force by Rebekah Maggor
By: - Feb 14th, 2008During the 19th Century, Shakespeare was mass entertainment in America. It only got to be considered highbrow in the 20th Century. Truly gifted actress Rebekah Maggor has developed an amazing one-woman show that brings to life the various heroines of the Bard through brilliant interpretations of some of the finest actresses that have graced the American stage. Shakespeare lowbrow or highbrow, Rebekah Maggor should take a bow.
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Compelling Must See Copenhagen At the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge
Playwright Michael Frayn's Wartime Imagined Emotive Meeting Between Atomic Energy Father Figure Niels Bohr and Nazi Atomic Scientist Werner Heisenberg.
By: - Jan 22nd, 2008In 1941, the German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg traveled to Copenhagen to meet with his former mentor Niels Bohr, the Danish father of quantum physics. In reality, not much is known about the short visit. Enticingly, Michael Frayn uses this encounter as the nucleus of a philosophical, intellectual and emotional three-way exchange between Heisenberg, Bohr and Bohr's wife Margrethe. The ART has interpreted Frayn's now classic intellectually and morally explosive drama in a totally compelling way.
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Barrington Stage Company's Season
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Returns to Berkshires
By: - Jan 20th, 2008The Barrington Stage Company season opens on Valentine's Day and will continue through October 26 with a lively mix of drama and its signature award winning musical "The 25th Annual Puntam County Spelling Bee."
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