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Theatre Review: BTF's "The Caretaker"

Netflix has made it easy for anyone to be an autodidact when it comes to the history of cinema—you just order up movies from the Classics category, and they arrive in your mailbox in whatever sequence you choose for your syllabus. But you can't design your own

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Barrington Stage Company Finds Itself A Second Home

Barrington Stage Company, which has a beautifully renovated 520-seat theater (with great leg room) in downtown Pittsfield, has finally found a semi-permanent home for its Stage II productions. BSC has signed a five year-lease for the VFW Hall on Linden Street and invested $20,000 to turn it into what

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"Mark Twain" Returns for One Night

Hal Holbrook was just 34 years old when he took Broadway by storm (and by surprise) in 1959. "An extraordinary show called 'Mark Twain Tonight!' slipped into the Forty-first Street Theatre last evening. There should have been posters up all over the town to herald its arrival,

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Red, White & Blacklisted: "Trumbo" Opens at Barrington Stage in Pittsfield

In this highly politicized season, Barrington Stage artistic director Julianne Boyd decided to open her 2008 season on February 14 with Trumbo, a play that explores how the United States government's crackdown on dissent in the McCarthy era affected the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (who, apparently, liked to

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Berkshire Theatre Festival To Get a Facelift

If you've ever gone to the Berkshire Theatre Festival, in Stockbridge, MA, you know that the parking situation can be like a screwball comedy, with student volunteers sending you and your car in circles and sometimes into ditches. Now, as an 80th birthday present to itself, BTF has

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TriArts Sets Its Season

Winter is audition season for our regional theater companies as they compete to import the best talent for their summer productions. At Tri-Arts in Sharon, CT, which casts Actors Equity performers with Broadway credits alongside inspired amateurs from the community, they are looking for hot guys willing to strip down

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