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The Hills Are Alive With Rogers and Hammerstein.

The Hills Are Alive With Rogers and Hammerstein.

Barrington Stage is presenting The Hills Are Alive With Rogers and Hammertsteinuntil August 29. It is a production worth seeing. The company has risen to the challenge of producing theatre in the time of the coronavirus in creative and exciting ways. The five talented performers, Alan H. Green, Storm Lever, Nicholas Rodriguez, Alexandra Silber and Alysha Umphress will keep you enthralled through…

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Harry Clarke During the pandemic, it has been difficult to live without live theatre. We have appreciated the many ways in which theatre companies have coped with this crisis through play readings online, interviews and various other activities.

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Oldcastle Theatre 2011

Night Stars, Shawn J. Davis and Carleton Carpenter

This was the first of many interviews Theatre Talk did with Eric Peterson and other members of  Oldcastle productions. This was the fifth interview of the first year of our radio program. This was also Oldcastle’s 40th anniversary as a theatre company in Bennington, Vermont. Eric spoke about some of the theatre’s history.  The interview took…

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The Mystery of Irma Vep 2011

Irma Vep. Shakespeare & Company, Lenox MA . Photo by Kevin Sprague 

When Bob and I started our program about theatre on our local radio station in 2011, our goal was to be theatre advocates. We wanted people to be as excited about theatre as we were. Our first two programs were Live Theatre and Going to Theatre Economically and  American Musical Theatre. On our fourth program we had our first…

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Actors Studio As some theatres postpone their summer seasons because of the pandemic,we feel it is necessary to  remind people how  important and unique the theatrical experience is .

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Theatre and COVID-19

As we social distance ourselves, Bob and I have been thinking about the impact of the Coronavirus on the upcoming theatre season. First, there were the announcements of the wonderful seasons the various theatres were planning. Then came the e-mails about waiting to see what would happen; then the closing of the Broadway theatres and regional theatres that had early shows. We thought of the actors…

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10x10 New Play Festival

10×10 New Play Festival

The ninth annual ten ten minute play festival at Barrington Stage is part of  Pittsfield’s Upstreet Winter Arts Festival which brightens the last days of February with a variety of cultural activities.  Directed by Julianne Boyd and Matthew Penn. The New Play Festival runs from February 13 to March 8 at the St. Germain Stage. Six actors, three men and three women move swiftly through a range of…

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Stupid F--king Bird

Stupid F–king Bird

As avid Chekhovians who have seen numerous productions of The Seagull, we were interested in viewing this variation on the play. Unlike other takeoffs of Chekhov’s plays, this is a unique play of its own. Taking the characters and the situation from Chekhov’s work, Aaron Posner has created an absorbing, contemporary play of its own. In the original Seagull Constantine, known here as Conrad or…

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Pipeline

WAM Theatre presents Pipelineby Dominique Morisseau at the Elayne Bernstein Theatre at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts through November 9. This is a remarkable play that is one of the most widely produced plays of our time because of its subject, the skill of the playwright, ,and the completely engaging characters that tell the story of a young black man’s struggle to find his way…

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American Underground

Barrington Stage Company presents American Underground at the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage through October 20. This is a production that should not be missed. The play is absorbing minute by minute while raising questions that the audience will want to think about and discuss. The play opens with a man watching a game on his computer while his wife is worried that their son who attends college has not…

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Water, Water, Everywhere

Oldcastle Theatre presents the world premiere of Water, Water Everywhere  Friday, October 4. The play runs Thursday to Sunday until October 20. Set in a fictional Vermont town, the play deals with the issue of contaminated water, a problem currently facing many communities. Along the way, WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE is a play with comedy, mystery and romance.  Eric Peterson, Artistic Producing…

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Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still plays at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts through October 13. The play  addresses much that concerns us as we watch television or read magazines and newspapers and see the visual accounts of distant wars. The story is also a personal one of people in complicated relationships. As usual at Shakespeare and Company, the actors absorb you into their world of these…

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Slow Food

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Slow Food

The Dorset Theatre Festival presents Slow Food, a delightful comedy through August 31. This play  ends a fine season of plays at the Festival. While you are laughing at this play, you care about the characters. The three actors, Peri Gilpin, Dan Butler and Greg Stuhr are wonderful in their parts. The audience may be laughing continuously, but the couple is earnestly focused on getting  dinner…

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Oklahoma!

The Mac-Haydn Theatre presents  Oklahoma! through September 1. This last production of a successful season of outstanding productions of a variety of musicals should not be missed. There have been many productions  recently of this American classic, first performed in 1943. This one must be among the finest thanks to the wonderful performers, the  intimacy of the arena stage at the Mac-Haydn and…

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Fall Springs

Barrington Stage Company presents a world premiere musical, Fall Springs at the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage through August 31. This musical shows that tackling contemporary problems through music can be entertaining while conveying a message. Gimmie Science is a delightful song that should be heeded.  Given the environmental issues we face, this is a timely reminder that even small towns have choices…

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Topdog/Underdog

 Topdog/Underdog plays at Shakespeare and Company’s Tina Packer Theatre through September 8. The play by Suzan-Lori Parks was named by the New York Times as the most important American play in the last twenty-five years. Set in the present, the play is haunted by the history of black families in the United States. Dealing with issues that resonate in their personal lives, the brothers are also…