Theatre
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Ghost on Stage
Hauntings at the Huntington Theatre Company
By: - Feb 26th, 2008A new show dealing with ghosts is coming to the Huntington--Shining City. PR maven John Michael Kennedy decided to share some scary dramatic history.
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All Hail, Julius Caesar at The American Repertory Theatre
A Contemporary Adaptation that Vividly Commands
By: - Feb 25th, 2008Regime change and political uncertainty are aspects of our own times. This version of William Shakespeare's tragedy is from a distinctive directorial perspective that stimulates our fantasy and imagination. Yet,at the same time, it presents the classic play in a clever, clear and poignant way.
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Trumbo Launches Season for Barrington Stage Company
Reliving the Red Scare and Hollywood Black List
By: - Feb 18th, 2008During the 1947 hearings of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, Dalton Trumbo, was charged with Contempt of Congress and became one of the black listed Hollywood Ten. The play, Trumbo, written by his son Christopher, is based on his remarkable and poignant letters.
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Summer in the Berkshires with the Williamstown Theatre Festival Announces 54th Season
Nicholas Martin Takes Over as Artistic Director for 2008 Season
By: - Feb 16th, 2008In June the final production by Nicholas Martin the musical "She Loves Me" will close at the Huntington Theatre Company, where he has been based since 2000, and open on June 28 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival where he is taking over as artistic director.
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A Magnificent Shakespeare's Actresses in America at the Calderwood Pavilion, Huntington Theatre Company
An One-Woman Tour-de-Force by Rebekah Maggor
By: - Feb 14th, 2008During the 19th Century, Shakespeare was mass entertainment in America. It only got to be considered highbrow in the 20th Century. Truly gifted actress Rebekah Maggor has developed an amazing one-woman show that brings to life the various heroines of the Bard through brilliant interpretations of some of the finest actresses that have graced the American stage. Shakespeare lowbrow or highbrow, Rebekah Maggor should take a bow.
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Compelling Must See Copenhagen At the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge
Playwright Michael Frayn's Wartime Imagined Emotive Meeting Between Atomic Energy Father Figure Niels Bohr and Nazi Atomic Scientist Werner Heisenberg.
By: - Jan 22nd, 2008In 1941, the German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg traveled to Copenhagen to meet with his former mentor Niels Bohr, the Danish father of quantum physics. In reality, not much is known about the short visit. Enticingly, Michael Frayn uses this encounter as the nucleus of a philosophical, intellectual and emotional three-way exchange between Heisenberg, Bohr and Bohr's wife Margrethe. The ART has interpreted Frayn's now classic intellectually and morally explosive drama in a totally compelling way.
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Barrington Stage Company's Season
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Returns to Berkshires
By: - Jan 20th, 2008The Barrington Stage Company season opens on Valentine's Day and will continue through October 26 with a lively mix of drama and its signature award winning musical "The 25th Annual Puntam County Spelling Bee."
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Third, the Final Play by Wendy Wasserstein
A Theatrical Mirror for Our time and Us at The Huntington Theatre Company
By: - Jan 17th, 2008For Three decades, Pulitzer prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, through a series of compassionate comedic dramas, charted the yearnings, disappointments and joys of modern American women in often autobiographical ways. The Huntington Theatre is currently presenting Third. It is the last play that she completed before her death in 2005. It is provocative and a bit unsettling. Perhaps, this is just as it should be.
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Shadowlands at London's Wyndham Theatre
A Reprise of the C.S. Lewis-Joy Gresham Nuanced Love Story
By: - Dec 25th, 2007A worthwhile evening was spent at this emotionally and artistically compelling and nuanced recently reprised play. It is about the true bittersweet love story found late in life by the very Christian scholar and author of The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis with the straight-talking quite American Jewish poet, Joy Davidman-Gresham. Here, intellect versus emotion and pain versus pleasure were set against questions of God, encounters between adults and even lost childhoods.
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Shakespeare & Company Announces Expanded 2008-2009 Season
Major Renovations to Lenox Campus
By: - Dec 12th, 2007For the past 30 years Tina Packard has brought Shakespeare to the Berkshires. Now Shakespeare & Company is gradually building out the campus it has moved to and is working toward year round programming. Tickets go on sale in January for a season that will be launched on Memorial Day Weekend. Let the games begin.
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Peter DuBois Named Huntington's New Artistic Director
Young, Versatile Director taking over The Huntington Theatre Company
By: - Dec 12th, 2007After a search for nearly a year, the Huntington Theatre Company taps young, energetic artistic director to lead its theatrical growth. Based upon his past performance,much is expected of Peter DuBois .
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Poignant Streamers at Huntington Theatre Company
Viet Nam Era Tale Resonates Loudly Today
By: - Nov 17th, 2007Four young soldiers struggle with their identity, the stress of the unknown and the possibility of death during this sensitively written and staged drama by David Rabe.
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Donnie Darko Boffo at The American Repertory Theatre
The Pending End of the World with an Edgy Teenager and his even Edgier Rabbit
By: - Nov 01st, 2007Halloween Night will never be the same again for our theatre critic. Instead of meeting and greeting trick or treaters, he spent his evening in Cambridge at ART's spectacular production of cult classic Donnie Darko. He will never forget such a shadowy and mysterious play featuring a sensitive but troubled high school teen, a dark six-foot killer bunny and an ancient Grandma Death.
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Brendan: An Irish-American Personal Expedition
A new play by Ronan Noone at the Calderwood Pavillion.
By: - Oct 29th, 2007A contemporay immigrant's odessey to American citizenship can be full of bumps and turns, even blow-outs. We go along for the ride trying to understand the driver while enjoying the scenery.
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ICA/Boston presents Old Trout Puppet Theater
Famous Puppet Death Scenes
By: - Oct 20th, 2007The Canadian pranksters of Old Trout Puppet Theater condensed their life's work into Famous Puppet Death Scene. ICA/Boston audiences were treated to 22 ways to die, humorous morality tales, for a U.S. culture infamous for its twin addiction to death and denial of death. Death by lack of humor was not among the many vignettes.
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Barrington Stage Company Launches Fall Season
The World Goes Round by Kander and Ebb Opens in Pittsfield
By: - Oct 07th, 2007Following a successful summer season that doubled the audience and revenue of the previous year Barrington Stage Company has launched a fall season in Pittsfield.
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The Secret of Sherlock Holmes Revealed in Lenox
American Premiere at Shakespeare and Company
By: - Sep 30th, 2007The play by Jeremy Paul was staged in London's West End in 1988 and after some delay is having its American premiere in Lenox. There are special events connected with the current production.
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Bonnie Gable Channels Gertrude Stein in Pittsfield
Pancho's Restaurant Offers Dinner and Theatre
By: - Sep 23rd, 2007After six years battling a range of health problems, the Berkshire based performer,Bonnie Gable,returned to the stage with a warmly moving one woman monologue as Gertrude Stein.
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Adaptation of Hitchcock's 39 Steps at Huntington Theatre Company
Broadway Bound Farce Opens Season at Boston University Theatre
By: - Sep 20th, 2007And Now for Something Completely Different or Running Amuck in a 30's Noir English Mystery Landscape featuring Scottish Moors not British Boors Opening the 2007-2008 Season at the Huntington Theatre Company is a tremendously clever, witty, even brilliant schtick Broadway-bound spoof on Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 breakthrough mystery film, 39 Steps. Mark Favermann laughed, chuckled and even guffawed his way through this send-up of the noir spy/mystery genre.
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Huntington Theatre Company Presents the Atheist
At the Wimberly Theatre in the Boston Center for the Arts
By: - Sep 18th, 2007Going to the theatre can become a personal moral dilemma. This is what happens at The Atheist, a new play starring at the Wimberly Theatre in Boston's South End opening the Huntington Theatre Company's 2007-2009 Season. Mark Favermann finds himself without a moral compass to navigate actor Campbell Scott's quirky one-man journey.
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American Repertory Theatre Launches Fall Season
Being Seduced by Don Juan Giovanni
By: - Sep 14th, 2007Experiencing the intertwining of music and literature, Moliere and Mozart during the opening production of the season at the American Repertory Theatre, Mark Favermann saw something rather different in the Theatre de la Jeune Lune's avant- garde production about the world's greatest seducer.
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Two-Headed Hibernates, Stirs and Goes Back To Sleep
One act play at Berkshire Theatre Festival
By: - Aug 24th, 2007A five scene one act play traced the life of a 19th century Mormon woman.
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'Rough Crossing' Anything But Rough
Shakespeare and Company Ends Season
By: - Aug 24th, 2007Tom Stoppard play combines unique wit and physical antics.
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Lillian Hellman's Autumn Garden at Williamstown Theatre Festival
All's Well That Ends Well
By: - Aug 17th, 2007The rarely produced Autumn Garden which Lillian Hellman described as her favorite is the final production of the Williamstown Theatre Festival season.
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Uncle Vanya at Barrington Stage Company
The Play's the Thing
By: - Aug 15th, 2007Julianne Boyd takes a chance with the challenging Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov for her Pittsfield based Barrington Stage Company.
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