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Barrington Stage Company

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Darrell Purcell, Jr. and Adam Chanler-Berat appear as Roger and Gordon in A New Brain. Press photo courtesy of Barrington Stage Company
Photo by Daniel Rader
Theater

A New Brain reckons with illness and endurance

September 4, 2023
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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.

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Krysta Rodriguez as Sally Bowles sings into a mic in vivid light in Cabaret at Barrington Stage Company. Press photo courtesy of BSC
Photo by Daniel Rader
Music

Come here the music play! — #Berkshiresummer

June 22, 2023
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‘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.

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Kenneth Tigar stars in The Happiest Man on Earth, adapted from Eddie Jaku's memoir from World War II through a century. Press photo courtesy of Barrington Stage Company
Photo by Daniel Rader
Theater

Eddie Jaku bares the strength to live through the Holocaust

June 6, 2023
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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.

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Dandelions bloom around the eye sculptures at WCMA.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Theater

Let’s do the time warp again — #Berkshireweekend

May 25, 2023
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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.

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Beer mugs stand on a wooden counter by a softly lit window.
Photo by Wagner T. Cassimiro
Community

Raise a glass to freedom and friendship — #Berkshireweekend

February 16, 2023
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On the eve of the first 10×10 Festival, 11 years ago, I wrote a question — with a Smartphone and inside knowledge, what kind of film would I make about Pittsfield?

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Justin Adhoot appears as Bilal and Brandon St Clair as Davon in ABCD. Press photos courtesy of Barrington Stage.
Photo by Daniel Rader
Theater

ABCD — glimpsing the wires of broken school systems

July 15, 2022
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What are the ethics of cheating in school? Harder: what about the ethics of cheating for the sake of a school which is being threatened by closure?

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Justin Adhoot appears as Bilal as in ABCD. Press photos courtesy of Barrington Stage Company.
Photo by Daniel Rader
Theater

Here be dragons … and fireflies and courage #this weekend

July 8, 2022
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As Ben and Scarlet and I walk out from the opening night of ABCD at Barrington Stage, we’re thinking of the choices the characters have to face, and their strength …

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Nima Rakshanifar and Henry Stram appear in 'Andy Warhol In Iran' at Barrington Stage Company. Press photo courtesy of BSC
Andy Warhol In Iran
Theater

How does Iran see Andy Warhol?

June 23, 2022
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The young man at the window turns to the American, the older man on a half-official visit, and says ‘did you learn anything about my country before you came here?’ And the question echoes through the play.

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Shannon Tyo appears as Afong Moy in The Chinese Lady at Barrington Stage Company.
Photo by Eloy Garcia, courtesy of Barrington Stage Company
Theater

Afong Moy, the first woman to come from China to the U.S., tells her story

August 7, 2018
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On Broadway, a young woman sits in a small room. At 3 and 7:30 p.m., twice a week, she will drink tea, walk in a circle and eat rice with chopsticks. She may sing a song from home and remember the quick and fluid music of strings and wooden flute […]

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Zurin Villanueva and Darnell Abraham perform in Ragtime, the musical based on E.L. Doctorow's novel of New York at the turn of the 20th Century.
Daniel Rader, Barrington Stage
Theater

Ragtime rocks the foundations and lifts strong voices at Barrington Stage — BTW column

July 11, 2017
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Make them hear you. Make them hear you. His voice is low and proud, angry and resolute. His voice is bass, and he carries it to the back of the hall. Darnell Abraham is Coalhouse Walker Jr., tall and formal in a dark red suit jacket and a bowler hat, […]

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