When things get hot in the Berkshire, they get hot quickly. That's especially true if you find the arts to be intriguing. Working full-time only leaves me with evenings in which to indulge nowadays and so I try to pick my destinations carefull.
I love our music scene and the dance world here in the region, but my first love is, and always has been, live theater. That is what engages me and it's where I choose to spend my time.
Right now, as fourth of July rings the air with fireworks, every company in two counties has their season up and running and whenever possible I am seated somewhere in their audiences enjoying what's best, and noting what's not the best. Frankly, I want to sing nothing but praise.
At Steepletop, where I work, we are featuring an exhibit on the various homes of Edna St. Vincent Millay from her early years in Maine through her New York City/Greenwich Village time to her final years at Steepletop in Austerlitz, NY, right across the border from West Stockbridge. The season there, with new first-time-ever house tours, continues through October 18. Check the www.millay.org website for updated information on all of this!
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Coming Soon
Watch this space for
Things to focus on:
Our Town at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Babes in Arms at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Harry Chapin's Lies & Legends at the Theatre Barn
THIS SITE IS UNDERGOING MAJOR CHANGES
but not going down for any appreciable time,
SO KEEP YOUR EYES ON US...
and much, much more
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There's a new Focus On....
- Death On the Nile at the Dorset Theatre Festival - reviewed
- After the Revolution at Williamstown Theatre Festival - reviewed
- ART at Barrington Stage Company - reviewed
- Imagining Madoff at Stageworks Hudson - reviewed
- A Winter's Tale at Shakespeare and Company - reviewed
- Damn Yankees at the MacHaydn - reviewed
- Pool Boy at Barrington Stage Company - reviewed
- The Guardsman at the Berkshire Theatre Festival - reviewed
- Spiders Web at the Theatre Barn - reviewed
- Six Degrees of Separation at Williamstown Theatre Festival - reviewed
- Fallen Angels at the Dorset Theatre Festival - reviewed
- Samuel J. and K. at Williamstown Theatre Festival - reviewed
- Our Town at Walking the Dog Theatre in Chatham - reviewed
- Endgame at the Berkshire Theatre Festival - reviewed
- Richard III at Shakespeare and Company - reviewed
- Chicago at the MacHaydn Theatre in Chatham, NY - reviewed
- A Funny Thing...a second viewing - on line now
- Red, White and Tuna at the Theatre Barn - reviewed
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - WTF - reviewed now - photos to come
- The Pavilion at the Dorset Theatre Festival - reviewed
- The Last Five Years at the Berkshire Theatre Festival - reviewed
- The Secret Garden at the MacHaydn Theatre - Reviewed
- It's Jewdy's Show at Williamstown Theatre Festival - Reviewed
- Sweeney Todd at Barrington Stage Company - reviewed
- K-2 at the Berkshire Theatre Festival - reviewed
- Or, at Stageworks Hudson - reviewed June 19
- Mengelberg and Mahler at Shakespeare and Company - reviewed
- Anything Goes at the Mac-Haydn Theatre - reviewed
- The Whipping Man at Barrington Stage Company - reviewed
- Julius Caesar at Shakespeare & Company - reviewed
- The Importance of Being Earnest - a Confetti Theater Production - see Special Attractions
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue at the Ghent Playhouse - reviewed
- Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter at the Triad Theatre - reviewed under Broadway/NYC
Journeys, Chamber Music for Flute, Viola and Guitar by Robert Baksa, reviewed under Music
- Bob Dylan: Prophet. Mystic. Poet by Seth Rogovoy - reviewed under Literature
- Mary Verdi's new CD - Precious Love - reviewed under Music
- SMALL IRONIES - THE NOVEL IS NOW COMPLETE - READ IT AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK. The Epilogue is up and ready to be read.
- BLANTYRE - a food and wine experience - AVAILABLE NOW under Restaurants
- and for another opinion on the Arts along with a much more complete list of what's happening in the region go to www.gailsez.com. Tell her Peter sent you!
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Watch for news, reviews and overviews in future weeks.
NOTE: Reviews are usually posted here the morning after opening night. Many of them can also be read at www.advocateweekly.com and others may be seen at www.edgeboston.com.
FOR ANOTHER CRITIC'S POINT OF VIEW, AND FOR MORE REGIONAL INFORMATION ON THE ARTS, GO TO http://gailsez.org.
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| Leslie Klein's sculpture "Lichen" which now hangs over my desk at Steepletop |
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