by Chris Rohmann | Jul 29, 2010 | Stage
By some measures, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the northern anchor of the Berkshires’ summer arts scene, is twice as big an operation as its sister theaters, Shakespeare & Company, Barrington Stage Company and Berkshire Theatre Festival. Much of this is...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 29, 2010 | Stage
The first two weekends of this year’s Ko Festival of Performance demonstrated the scope of this summer carnival of theater that defies and redefines convention. A solo performer recounted a dozen real-life stories; a six-person ensemble enacted a single...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 5, 2010 | Stage
Hampshire Shakespeare Company opened its season last month with a tight, taut Hamlet that featured a thrilling, pyrotechnic performance in the title role. PJ Adzima is still in high school, but he brought not only an adolescent vigor that made the prince’s...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 12, 2010 | Stage
“I wanted to make this a working person’s theater,” says Julianne Boyd, artistic director of Barrington Stage Company. She’s showing me around the company’s mainstage theater on Union Street in Pittsfield. The company’s move here...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 26, 2010 | Stage
Shakespeare & Company isn’t only about Shakespeare, but the contemporary plays that comprise nearly half of this summer’s program share some common ground with the Bard. They are smaller works than Shakespeare’s sprawling masterpieces—of...
