by Chris Rohmann | Aug 12, 2010 | Stage
Arlene Hutton’s Nibroc Trilogy begins with one of the sweetest and funniest courtship scenes in contemporary drama. Two young people meet on a cross-country train at the beginning of World War II. Raleigh is a talker and a teaser, May shy and proper, and...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 2, 2010 | Stage
The plays of Alan Ayckbourn, England’s master farceur, are models of comedic structure, crafted from everyday situations that get hilariously out of hand. His trademark is structural gimmicks that play with space and/or time. Absurd Person Singular (a title...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 19, 2010 | Stage
The Berkshire Fringe’s name reflects both its geographical and artistic relationships to the area’s other summer theater festivals. It’s tucked into the southwestern corner of the state—though its host community, Great Barrington, has good...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 9, 2010 | Stage
The set tells us a lot. R. Michael Miller’s design for the Berkshire Theatre Company production of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance is an oh-so-typical prosperous suburban living room, with elegant furniture, orderly bookshelves and a well-stocked and...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 9, 2010 | Stage
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” quoth the poet. But its brief harvest sure is bountiful. In the three-month feast of performance just ended, 15 theater companies in the Valley and Berkshires mounted some 60 productions in 23 indoor and...
