YOU SAY POTATO, I SAY POTAHTO…Meet Chris Newbound Some people spell it “playwrite” but I’ve always preferred “playwright”, using the Old English suffix that means “builder”. Writing a play seems as much craft as art, and there’s something comforting and wholly appropriate about aligning myself with boatwrights, wheelwrights and hey, even the Wright brothers. I’ve [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BSC Press Director Charlie Siedenburg, 551-655-0968 Barrington Stage Company Announces Summer Youth Theatre 2014 “2nd Chance” Auditions for HAIRSPRAY JR. Auditions March 1st by appointment only; Callbacks March 2, at Boyd-Quinson Mainstage (Pittsfield, MA) Barrington Stage Company Youth Theatre will be holding a second round of auditions for its summer 2014 production of Hairspray JR. in order to accommodate [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Barrington Stage Press Director, Charlie Siedenburg 551-655-0968 BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY TO PRESENT STAGED READING OF MARK ST. GERMAIN’S NEW ROMANTIC COMEDY, DANCING LESSONS MARCH 8 AT MCLA CHURCH STREET CENTER, NORTH ADAMS (PITTSFIELD, MA) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BSC Press Director, Charlie Siedenburg 551-655-0968 BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY to hold LOCAL EQUITY PRINCIPAL AUDITIONS for 2014 Musicals and Plays February 20 and 21 from 1pm - 6pm Barrington Stage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield - Auditions by Appointment Only - (Pittsfield, MA) February 11, 2014 - Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, under the leadership [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BSC Press Director Charlie Siedenburg, 551-655-0968 BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY ANNOUNCES 20th ANNIVERSARY SEASON Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, St. Germain Stage and Youth Theatre Productions BSC Associate Artists Joshua Bergasse, Darren R. Cohen, Mark H. Dold, William Finn, Christopher Innvar, Renee Lutz, and Mark St. Germain return (PITTSFIELD, MA) January 30, 2014 – At a [...]
Last Thursday, as I watched two PMP kids shape a scene, I was impressed by their fearless improvisational dexterity. The scene’s basic through-line was the friction that comes when two characters are engaged in the same activity, but have opposing objectives. These actors kind of had a sense of the beginning and sort of knew [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BSC Press Director Charlie Siedenburg 551-655-0968; Charlie_siedenburg@yahoo.com BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY ANNOUNCES CASTING AND CREATIVE TEAM FOR 2014 10×10 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL February 13-March 2 Performances at St. Germain Stage New Play Festival part of Pittsfield’s 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival (PITTSFIELD, MA) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BSC Press Director Charlie Siedenburg, 551-655-0968 Barrington Stage Company Announces Summer Youth Theatre 2014 Auditions Hairspray JR. Auditions February 8-9 by appointment only; Callbacks March 1-2, at Boyd-Quinson Mainstage (Pittsfield, MA) Barrington Stage Company’s Youth Theatre seeks actors between the ages of 13-18 for roles in its summer 2014 production of [...]
When I was young, I dreaded slumber parties. I only went because it was easier to accept an invitation from somebody as formidable as Kathy Schlegel than to try and come up with an excuse to not go. It was a badge of honor to see who could stay up and talk. All night. I [...]
There’s a new movie slated to open. It’s called Saving Mr. Banks, and it’s about the testy relationship between Walt Disney and P. L. Travers during the filming of the 1964 hit Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. I loved that Technicolor confection. But the book? That’s something else. I should probably [...]
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