56 stories by "Jeffrey Borak"
Friday February 3, 2012
It's been 35 years since Tina Packer first, and last, directed Moliere's "The Learned Ladies."
Friday January 27, 2012
PITTSFIELD -- New plays are at the top of Julianne Boyd’s agenda.
Friday December 30, 2011
Theater years are about more than bests and/or worsts, particularly 2011 which was a year of transitions.
Friday December 9, 2011
PITTSFIELD -- It's all about generating excitement, says Berkshire Theater Group artistic director and CEO Kate Maguire, and BTG's programmer, Simon Shaw.
Friday October 28, 2011
PITTSFIELD
For Berkshires actress Karen Lee, playing Jelly in the upcoming WAM Theatre production of "The Attic, The
Friday September 30, 2011
PITTSFIELD -- Summer may be over but theaters in and around the Berkshires are in high gear.
Director David Auburn hadn't heard of Tennessee Williams' "Period of Adjustment" until he stumbled across it while reading a bunch of Williams' plays in search of something to direct this su…
PITTSFIELD -- Four first-rate actors are giving four first-rate performances in the hands of one first-rate director in Berkshire Actors Theatre's inaugural production. If only the play, Joh…
Kathleen Clark's mostly breezy comedy, "In the Mood," which is having its world premiere in a handsomely mounted, generally well-acted production at Berkshire Theatre Festival's Fitzpatrick …
This is simpy a mismatch from the get-go. Packer struggles mightily in a losing effort to gain mastery over her material. Her rhythm at Friday's opening night was halting, uncertain, graspin…
WILLIAMSTOWN -- As Bess Wohl's at once gentle and dramatically powerful play, "Touch(ed)," opens, Kay (insightfully played by Lisa Joyce in the well-directed, very well-acted production at W…
STOCKBRIDGE - Playwright Kathleen Clark can't get away from her fondness for good old- fashioned romantic comedies; the kind that used to feature the likes of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepbur…
Friday August 5, 2011
STOCKBRIDGE - Playwright Kathleen Clark can't get away from her fondness for good old- fashioned romantic comedies; the kind that used to feature the likes of Cary Gran…
"We're a theater for actors, Berkshires-based actors," Bell-Devaney says proudly of her new company, Berkshire Actors Theatre. That's why she chose an actors' play for the company's inaugura…
Inspired by this true story as chronicled by Osha Gray Davidson in his book, "The Best of Enemies," St. Germain has crafted an insightful, quite often funny, highly theatrical play about the…
Taut. Incisive. Focused. Penetrating. Not words one readily applies to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's towering novel, "Crime and Punishment." They are perfect, however, for the treatment collaborators…
Picking up where director David Cromer left off with his production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" earlier this summer at Williamstown Theatre Festival's Nikos Stage, director Sam Gold has de…
Greg Keller's new play, "Dutch Masters," is drawn from life. "It happened to a friend of mine in high school," Keller explained during a recent interview at Berkshire Theatre Festival's Unic…
STOCKBRIDGE -- Greg, the pivotal character in A.R. Gurney's charming, oh-so-smart and winning comedy, "Sylvia" -- which is being given a charming, oh-so-smart and winning production at Berks…
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. -- The setting and set-up for "The Hollow" is vintage Agatha Christie -- a weekend at a house on the outskirts of London at which have gathered a collection of people whose…
BENNINGTON, Vt. -- Neil Simon cut his professional teeth as the youngest member of the writing staff for Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows." And what a stable of hands to work with -- among t…
The press material for "Mormons, Mothers and Monsters," the newest and among the more misguided projects of Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab, suggests a playful, witty musical …
There was an understandably festive air in the people-choked lobby of the Colonial Theatre Saturday night. Roughly eight weeks shy of the handsomely restored theater's opening on Aug. 29, 20…
"Romeo and Juliet" is the first Shakespeare play director Daniela Varon ever read. "It's the first Shakepeare play I loved," Varon said during an interview in the lobby of Shakespeare & Comp…
For actress Karen Allen, Michael Weller's "Moonchildren" was a play more heard about than seen.
