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Leave it to Julianne Boyd…founder and Artistic Director of Barrington Stage Company…to make her mark early in the summer theater season – a tradition that…
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The story of Joan of Arc has evoked mythology and themes for centuries, and has inspired numerous playwrights – including Shakespeare, Voltaire, Bertolt…
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Here’s a recipe.Take one part lyrics from one well-known song…mix it with one part lyrics from another standard…add a dash of familiar classical…
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Die Zauberflote – The Magic Flute – is an opera icon. Composed in 1791, three months before his death, it is one of the most performed and most popular…
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In 1956, playwright Lillian Hellman conceived an idea to use Candide – Voltaire’s 200-year-old satirical attack on prevailing religion-based optimism – as…
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In her first season as Artistic Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mandy Greenfield has taken bold steps to establish her own imprint within…
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Friction and discomfort are apparent from the moment Rachel tosses her backpack on a chair in the classic Ivy League office of Professor Zelda Kahn. They…
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Many of us who attend and are earnest about summer theater productions in the Berkshire – for this reviewer it’s been almost 40 years – we often wonder to…
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When classifying a humorous play, we generally label it into one of two categories: comedy or farce. In comedy we recognize people or events to which we…
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In our youth, many of us were compelled to read a particular novel written by an American author. I don’t mean compelled as a school assignment, but…