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We'll be setting up the pages for the various theaters we cover during the Berkshire summer season. In the meantime, the following news of what has been announced so far: Barrington Stage Williamstown Theatre Festival | Shakespeare & company|
Barrington Stage At Barrington's Main Stage. Fiddler on the Roof will open the season, from June 13 through July 14 (press opening is Sunday, June 17 at 5pm). The Tony Award-winning musical will be directed and choreographed by Gary John LaRosa with music direction by Darren R. Cohen. LaRosa, a Fiddler on the Roof veteran performer and director/choreographer, makes his BSC debut. Arthur Miller’s The Price, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play in 1968, follows from July 19 through August 4 (press opening on Sunday, July 22 at 5pm.),. It will be directed by Julianne Boyd and will star Jeff McCarthy (star of Barrington's Mack and Mabel, Follies, Sweeney Todd). The main stage season continues with John Rando directing the 1945 British farce See How They Run by Philip King from August 9 – 26 press opening on Sunday, August 12 at 5pm. Barrington continues the season into Fal with the New England premiere of one of the 20th century’s greatest novels, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams, from October 3 through 21. The press opening is Sunday, October 7 at 3pm.
At Barrington's Stage 2 Aaron Posner (BSC’s My Name is Asher Lev) direct the Season Opener, the New England premiere of Lungs by Duncan Macmillan from May 23 through June 10 (press opening on Sunday, May 27 at 3pm).. Pl aywright and author of BSC’s longest-running hit play, Freud’s Last Session, Mark St. Germain’s new play Dr. Ruth, All the Way will premiere on the Stage 2 from June 19 through July 15. (Press opening is Saturday, June 30 at 8pm). It will be directed by Julianne Boyd, with Dr. Ruth played by Debra Jo Rupp. Next is the East Coast premiere of Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool, a psychological cat-and-mouse thriller about a Middle Eastern student and his assistant high school principal, fromJuly 26 through August 11 (press opening is Sunday, July 29 at 3pm. Giovanna Sardelli directs.
Barrington Stage Company’s Musical Theatre Lab, under the leadership of William Finn and Julianne Boyd kicks off its seventh season with the garage rock band musical The Black Suits from August 16 through September 2. The Black Suits—with music and lyrics by Iconis, and a book co-written with Robert Maddock—will receive a workshop production under the direction of John Simpkins It's about a high school garage band on suburban Long Island tries to win The St. Anne’s Battle of the Bands. Two teens struggle to learn how to be real friends as the inevitability of adulthood threatens to pull them apart.
BSC's Youth Theater moves to a new venue, The Berkshire Museum with the Berkshire Premiere of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from July 25 through August 12, directed and choreographed by Christine O’Grady.
Pricing News: The return of “15@15” – fifteen tickets to every Mainstage performance available on a first-come, first-served basis for $15 each. . . Low-priced previews at $15 and $20 for the first two performances on the Mainstage and $15 on Stage 2. . . $15 tickets for youth 18 and younger will be offered again for all performances except Saturday evenings. . .new membership program, with $15 tickets available to select dates of Mainstage and Stage 2 performances for patrons ages 18-35. . . Senior discounted tickets to all Mainstage matinee performances are $38 and $25 for all Stage 2 matinees.
Williamstown | The summer 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival Season has announced new shows for its Main and Nikos stages.
At the Main stage, Far From Heaven, a new musical with a book by Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out), an original score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) and directed by Michael Greif (Rent; WTF’s Three Sisters), from July 19 – 29, 2012; Billed as a Preview Production which means that the creative team can make changes over the course of the run to further develop the musical. What it's about: It's based on the 2002 Focus Features/Vulcan Productions motion picture written and directed by Todd Haynes
At the Nikos stage, the World Premiere of Lucy Boyle’s The Blue Deep from July 11 – July 22, 2012, It will be directed byer Bob Balaban and featur Tony Award-winner (and Williamstown veteran) Blythe Danner. What it's about: 26-year-old Lila Miller is stuck, while her mother, Grace, is perpetually in motion. When Lila returns home to her family's exquisite Hamptons house and garden with only a plastic bag and a broken heart, there's no nurturing to be found, except as pertains to horticulture. The same painful history that threatens to drive mother and daughter permanently apart ultimately evolves into the one realm where reconnection might be possible. The play was part of last summer's Fridays@3 reading series.
The full 2012 Season will be announced next month.
Shakespeare & Company
John Douglas Thompson as Louis Armstrong
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Four productions scheduled for the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre: John Logan's portrait of painter Mark Rothko, Red, to be directed by Kevin Coleman and star Jonathan Epstein; Dorothy Thompson, Cassandra Speaks, featuring Tod Randolph; Mark Roberts' examination of two very different brothers, Parasite Drag, to be directed by Steve Rothman; and Charles Busch's The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, to be directed by Jon Croy and starr Annette Miller. Also set is the East Coast premiere of Mark Roberts’ comedy Parasite Drag with Jason Asprey and Elizabeth Aspenlieder
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