Theatre Intelligence
Hot Tickets: Valentine’s Weekend Shows
Barrington Stage Company has become known for its pitch-perfect revivals of classic musicals (such as Carousel, Follies and Sweeney Todd) and its Musical Theatre Lab that has brought us original musicals such as Pool Boy and See Rock City. So it’s a sure bet that artistic director Julianne Boyd’s The Big V Day Cabaret will be a Broadway-worthy show featuring four gifted actors—Brian Justin Crum, Trista Dollison, Morgan Karr and Cassie Wooley (above)— and new tunes by members of William Finn’s Musical Theatre Lab, including Will Aronson, Bill Nelson and Nikos Tsakalakos, who will be a guest performer singing his “February in Vermont” at the Saturday night show.
February 11 & 12 @ 8 p.m.; February 13 @ 3 p.m.
Tickets: $25 - $30
The New Stage Performing Arts Center (upstairs from the Beacon Cinema) has become a vital spot in Pittsfield’s nightlife. It will be hosting an evening of cabaret, Lover You’re Killing Me! with Lisa Kantor, who was one of the gutsy “dangerous women” who performed to great acclaim last spring in Lenox. Accompanied by a five piece band, Kantor will belt out tunes with razzle dazzle and her keen sense of humor.
February 12 @ 8 p.m.
Tickets $18; cash bar
Venus in Wonderland is the title of the show that Gypsy Layne Burlesque is bringing to the ballroom at Jae’s Spice in Pittsfield. More than a contemporary striptease, the brainy and brawny show (which features the inimitable Karen Lee) salutes the women who’ve been brave enough to tease audiences for a century.
February 12 & 14 @ 8 p.m.
Tickets: $20
The Williamstown Theatre Festival is offering up a sweet temptation in the auditorium of The Clark: a staged reading of Neil Simon’s classic comedy, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, directed by Jessica Stone, who directed last summer’s innovative all-male production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at WTF.
February 14 @ 7 p.m.
Suggested donation: $10
Shakespeare & Company is serving up a special pre-theater brunch on February 13 in the lobby of the Elayne P. Bernstein Theater. The multi-course brunch, which includes bountiful chocolate desserts, precedes a 2 p.m. performance of Charles Ludlam’s zany The Mystery of Irma Vep starring Josh Aaron McCabe and Ryan Winkles in multiple roles.
February 13, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Brunch and show: $60
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