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Review: "A Delicate Balance" at BTF

Through September 4 Edward Albee's 1967 Pultizer Prize winning A Delicate Balance is a tragedy that masquerades as a drawing room comedy. It is laced with laugh-out-loud moments and it builds through its three acts to reveal devastating truths about the nature of family and friendship. It is

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Review: "The Memory Show" at Barrington Stage Company

Through August 29 The Memory Show is not really a conventional musical, even though the 75 minute show (with book & lyrics by Sara Cooper and music by Zach Redler) is almost entirely sung. It is really a play whose rapid-fire dialogue and soul-searching monologues are set to wonderful music.

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Review: The Taster at Shakespeare & Company

Now through September 4 It has been too long a while since we've seen a play by Joan Ackermann at Shakespeare & Company, so the current staging of her literate new work, The Taster, at Founder’s Theatre, is particularly welcome. The play is a tale of two

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The Wharton Salon presents Summer at The Mount

August 18 - August 29 Once upon a time, the resplendent lawns, gardens, chambers, and stables of Edith Wharton's guilded-age estate, The Mount, were alive with sprites, faeries, kings, queens, and courtesans created by The Bard, as well as characters drawn from the imagination of the property'

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"Lombardi" is a Winner!

Through July 28 at The Mahaiwe Football has not always been big business. Eric Simonson's  new play Lombardi, which is having its pre Broadway run at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, is set in 1965, when the most famous football coach in the land lived in an ordinary

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Review: "Judgment Day" at Summerscape

Through July 25 at the Fisher Center at Bard College To begin by praising the set, props and sound design of the 1937 drama Judgment Day at Bard Summerscape should not be misinterpreted: This is an extraordinary evening of theatre in every respect, but the awesome stagecraft powerfully serves the

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Review: "Six Degrees" at Williamstown

Through July 25 For anyone who is too young to remember 1980s New York as an era of smug money, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation is a fascinating history lesson. As New York Times theater critic Frank Rich wrote, Six Degrees is "a masterwork that captures

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"Lombardi" Kicks Off at the Mahaiwe

July 22 - 28 Actor Dan Lauria will portray the Green Bay Packers coach on stage.Millerton resident and New York Times best-selling author Peter Richmond, whose new book, Badasses:The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders  (Harper Collins) will be published this

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Will "Pool Boy" Be the Summer's Splash Hit for Barrington Stage Company?

Poolside in Pittsfield: Reba Evenchik and Nikos Tsakalakos. There are two swimming pools that played a crucial role in the genesis of Pool Boy, Nikos Tsakalakos's musical that is having its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company's Stage 2 (July 13 - August 8). One is

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Review: A Fab "Forum" at Williamstown

Now through July 11 "Something familiar, something peculiar" are the opening lyrics of Stephen Sondheim's 1962 musical comedy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but there's probably never been a production this unexpectedly and delightfully peculiar.  I was clueless about

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Review: "The Whipping Man" Wows

Barrington Stage Company Stage 2 through June 17 Why is this play different than all other plays? Certainly, it's the premise. Have you ever before seen a drama about three Jewish men—two of whom happen to be newly freed slaves—who share a house at the end

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Broadway Bound in the Berkshires

The out-of-town tryout is a tried-and-true Broadway convention, and in the good old days shows played Philadelphia or New Haven before heading to New York City.  This summer, Great Barrington is getting to play that part. The Broadway bound production of Lombardi—a play about the fabled Green Bay Packers

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