A woman and a man sit together on the edge of possibility — two charismatic, intelligent people living alone, old enough for grown children and teenage grandchildren, testing the ground for how much they can trust.
Read articleHigh culture, low pay — Local arts groups push for change
Berkshire arts nonprofits are exploring the need for diversity, equity, fair pay – and for understanding the experiences of their workers and investing in their futures.
Read articleA New Brain reckons with illness and endurance
Two men are holding each other in a hospital room. One of them is lying lean and tense in a hospital gown, and the other supports him to lift up. They sit together on the inadequate bed, facing an impossible diagnosis … a powerful image a musical first produced in 1998.
Read articleCircle Mirror Transformation reflects potential and tragedy
It’s a quiet, sunny morning, and a handful of people are sitting in a bare room at a community center. It’s a clean and ramshackle room in a small town, the kind of place that can be everything or nothing — depending on the people who walk in …
Read articleDionysos and the Bacchae dance under the stars
Women are singing in the river. They are wading in the water from the temple garden to the labyrinth … Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield performs The Hidden Territories of the Bacchae, delving into their own ancestral stories.
Read articleCome here the music play! — #Berkshiresummer
‘What good is sitting alone in your room’ … Summer is opening all around us. As Cabaret takes the stage at Barrington stage Company, Tanglewood and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival are stirring.
Read articleEddie Jaku bares the strength to live through the Holocaust
Broadway and Off-Broadway veteran Kenneth Tigar speaks in a world premiere adapted from the memoir of Eddie Jaku, who lived through the brutality of Buchenwald and Auschwitz — and lost many people he loved.
Read articleLet’s do the time warp again — #Berkshireweekend
The warmer days seem to have lifted the energy in the hills, and our creative places are absorbing it from the world around them — and this weekend, events are flying.
Read articleShakuntala remixes a Sanskrit play and 21st-century love story
Williams professor of theater Shanti Pillai has gathered together an ensemble of student actors and guest artists, musicians, puppeteers, a Bollywood choreographer … and they are creating a new work together.
Read article‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ explores the future
‘The constitution … is a living, warm-blooded, steamy document,’ Heici Schreck argues in her Tony-nominated play — and she asks with a deeper understanding, what world could we imagine if that could really be true — for her, and for everyone.
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