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| Sally Filkins and Patrick Percival in Maids in the Mills, 2005 |
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No, No. . .It's not a revival of my play, "Maids in the Mills." However, it is a season when many plays you've seen before will be around one more time in the Berkshires' summer season. "Enchanted April," which enchanted audiences a few years ago at Shakespeare and Company is closing the season at the Ghent Playhouse, for example and "Almost, Maine" which we saw at the Theatre Barn two seasons ago and at the Chester Theatre last summer will be with us again in July at Oldcastle Theater in Bennington.
"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," the Tony Award winning musical that began its life at Barrington Stage in Sheffield several seasons back returned to home base last summer in Barrington's new home in Pittsfield and now shows up at the Weston Playhouse in early July. That theater is also doing Barrington Stage's two-season, one-man hit play "Fully Committed" at the end of June.
There are two simultaneous productions of "Twelfth Night" opening here, the first at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox and the second at Walking The Dog's summer home in Columbia County. And the hit at Oldcastle two years ago, "Body of Water" will show up again in mid-August at the Chester Theatre.
Luckily there are lots of shows not often seen filtered in to break up this sense of re-run for us. Although, it must be said, every new production of a familiar piece brings wonderful and fascinating new points of view, nuances, concepts that had not occurred to the previous presenters, and that makes live theater ever-so enjoyable. You just don't know what to expect when creative people get their hands on familiar material: What was a simple dress to one team becomes risque bodice-ripper to another.
See you in the lobby!
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Coming Soon
Shows to focus on:
Knickerbocker at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Candide at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Beauty and the Beast at the MacHaydn
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in Weston, Vermont
and much, much more
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