THEATER REVIEW: “Ragtime” at Barrington Stage Co. [Berkshire on Stage]
Review by Gail M. Burns“You just sit there going, ‘This is our country as we know it.’ Black people are crying out that their lives matter. Women are…
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THEATER REVIEW: “Downstairs” @ Dorset Theatre Festival [Berkshire on Stage]
Review by Gail M. BurnsBoth playwright Theresa Rebeck and actor Tim Daly have close relationships the state of Vermont and the Dorset Theatre Festival.…
THEATER REVIEW: “Moonlight and Magnolias” @ Oldcastle [Berkshire on Stage]
Review by Gail M. BurnsMoonlight and Magnolias, currently on the boards at Bennington's Oldcastle Theatre Company, centers on a story related in William…
THEATER REVIEW: “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” @ The Whit [Berkshire on Stage]
Review by Gail M. BurnsDo you wear clothes? Then you will love Love, Loss, and What I Wore currently at the Whitney Center for the Arts in a sleek and…
Local Murder Mystery Comes to Dorset Theatre Festival [Berkshire on Stage]
By Gail M. BurnsIn 1812 Russell Colvin, a farm worker who all agreed was “feeble-minded,” disappeared from the Boorn family farm in East Manchester,…
THEATER REVIEW: “Shipwrecked!” @ Oldcastle Theatre Co. [Berkshire on Stage]
Review by Gail M. BurnsWhat more does a man have but his name and the story he tells? Everything else is dust.The character of Louis de Rougemont…
REVIEW: “The Glass Menagerie” @ Hubbard Hall [Berkshire on Stage]
Review by Gail M. BurnsWhen you live with a story for a long time – and most Americans are introduced to Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie in high…
Circle Theatre Players Present “Wait Until Dark” [Berkshire on Stage]
In a basement apartment in Greenwich Village, Suzy, a recently blinded woman, is terrorized by a trio of thugs looking for a drug-stuffed doll they think is…
“Doubt” Opens at Schenectady Civic Players on Friday [Berkshire on Stage]
Award winning Doubt, A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Tom Templeton, opens Friday (March 17) and runs through Sunday, March 26 at…
“Souvenir” Kicks Off Bridge Street Theatre’s Season [Berkshire on Stage]
On October 25, 1944, wealthy (and tone-deaf) soprano Florence Foster Jenkins and her accompanist Cosme McMoon performed a recital at Carnegie Hall. Tickets sold…
“Mothers & Sons” Opens at the Ghent Playhouse on Friday [Berkshire on Stage]
The Ghent Playhouse presents the regional premier of Terrence McNally's Mothers and Sons – a timely and touching contemporary play about change,…
THEATER REVIEW: “The Book Club Play” @ Hubbard Hall [Berkshire on Stage]
Review by Gail M. BurnsI don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of my winter down-time reading. Books – tangible, virtual and audio – provide…