338 stories from The Berkshire Eagle
When Eric Hill first directed Brian Friel's "Faith Healer" 20 years ago at the now defunct StageWest in Springfield, it was during a time of stress and despair in the city, at the theater.
LENOX - Shakespeare & Company is laying off seven employees, reducing two others to part-time, and instituting a 10 percent pay cut for the remaining 41 year-round staff as part of a restruc…
"We don't ever speak about the BTF and the history of the BTF without mentioning Bill Gibson's name," said Kate Maguire, current artistic director at the BTF, in an interview on Friday.
The writer, who died Tuesday at the age of 94, leaves behind a great body of work and a theater, the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, that will long bear his stamp.
Four actresses - Tony Award winners Frances Sternhagen and Elizabeth Franz, and Ylfa Edelstein and Andrea Cirie - sat around the large table listening to their director, Joe Cacaci, go over …
In "Greetings From Niagara," the last of the six mini-musicals that make up "See Rock City and Other Destinations," a new, generally unchallenging, musical at Barrington Stage Company's Musi…
If there was meant to be a playful, mischievous Champagne twinkle in Coward's eye, it is hard to find on the BTF stage.
Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart and singer-actor Brian Stokes Mitchell paid eloquent and elegant tribute to this master of music at their Sunday night concert.
There is a palpable autumnal texture to Williamstown Theatre Festival's credibly mounted and performed production of David Storey's "Home."
Charlotte, the title character in Christine Whitley's uneven new play, "The Goatwoman of Corvis County," at Shakespeare & Company's welcome new 168-seat Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, has an u…
Tomorrow night, Jacob's Pillow's annual "Jazz Happening" will keep the dream alive for aspiring Broadway-bound students of its Jazz/Musical Theater School program.
Andrea McArdle, the original "Annie" and so much more, is a featured star.
The first of Gretchen Egolf's wonderfully revealing moments as Amanda Prynne in Barrington Stage Company's gracious, emotionally detailed production of Noël Coward's "Private Lives" comes…
The Tanglewood Music Center production, which opened Saturday afternoon (with repeats scheduled last night and tonight), doesn't quite hit the bull's-eye, but it comes close enough.
World-premiere production tackles communication, relationships
"I've always wanted to play Amanda," said actress Gretchen Egolf, who is getting her chance in this Julianne Boyd-directed production.
Berkshire Theatre Festival actors and director find 'Waiting For Godot' to be 'strangely accessible' in spite of its age and reputation.
