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Theater Review: A Dated “Company”

Director Julianne Boyd is faced with a difficult challenge — dramatizing an outdated psychological travelogue.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Aaron Tveit, Barrington Stage, Company, Culture Vulture, Julianne Boyd, Lauren Marcus, Paul Schaefer, Stephen-Sondheim

Theater Review: A Pretty Ragged “Ragtime”

Barrington Stage director Joe Calarco has come to the material with a radically different production idea.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Barrington Stage, Culture Vulture, Joe Calarco, Ragtime

Theater Review: “peerless” — Unexpectedly Wonderful

peerless will have generations of parents and current as well as former teenagers laughing in concert.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Barrington Stage, Culture Vulture, Jiehae Park, Louisa Proske, peerless

Theater Review: Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen” — Brought Memorably to Life on Stage

The agile hand of adaptor and director Aaron Posner has given us a production of Chaim Potok’s novel “The Chosen” that our children and grandchildren must see.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Barrington Stage, Barrington Stage Company, The Chosen

Theater Review: Two Plays Chronicle the Lives of Pioneering Women

Two Berkshire theaters are offering one-woman shows this summer. Both scripts feature intelligent, frank, and charismatic women. Both productions star gifted and seasoned actors.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Al the Way, Barrington Stage, Cassandra speaks, Culture Vulture, Debra Jo Rupp, Dorothy Tompson, Dr Ruth, Mark St. Germain, Norman Plotkin, Ruth Westheimer, Shakespeare and Company, Tod Randolph

Coming Attractions in Theater: June 2011

June is a transitional month for theater — the big Summer Festivals don’t hit their stride until July. But odd and interesting productions pop up, such as a view of life for women in Putin’s Russia, a musical about union activity, a glimpse of what’s billed as “the future of ensemble theatre in America,” and the world premiere of a musical version of the Bible’s Song of Songs that, who knows, might usher in a Summer of Love.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: As You Like it, Barrington Stage, Charlestown Working Theater, Chester Theatre Company, Company One, Factory Girls, Jon Robin Baitz, Last Train to Nibroc, Liars & Believers, Peterborough Players, PigPen, Shakespere & Company, Song of Songs - ALoveRomp, Surviving the Avalanche, The Memory of Water, The Mountain Song, The Natasha Plays, Three Hotels

Coming Attractions: Culture Vulture’s October Picks

by Helen Epstein I’m looking forward to what looks to be the best fall foliage season in years in the Berkshires. American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell at the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA through October 12. A very popular summer exhibit has been held over. It covers Rockwell’s entire 65-year career, interpreted and […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured Tagged: Barrington Stage, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cole-Porter, Culture Vulture, First Monday at Jordan Hall, Gloucester, kiss me kate, La Cause des Livres, Lyric stage company of boston, Norman Rockwell, October picks, Pittsfield, Rockwell Museum, Susan Erony, The Laramie Project, White-Ellery House

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