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CURTAIN UP 2008 IN THE BERKSHIRES
Welcome to spring, summer and autumn and the Berkshire theatre scene! For lovers of the lively arts, the curtain rises within a busy season of drama, comedy and music to happily keep your theatre hungry groups busy. A theatre schedule is listed to help you plan for your group tour programs.
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Curtain Up - Theater Update!
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY - PITTSFIELD,
MA
May 21 - June 8
- I AM MY OWN WIFE - (True World War II drama of intrigue)
June 11 - July 12 - THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY
SPELLING BEE
(2 Tony awards! - Musical comedy BSC classic from 2004)
July 17 - Aug. 04 - THE VIOLET HOUR - (Fantasy drama of love and literature)
August 17 -24 - PRIVATE LIVES - (Noel Coward's comedy masterpiece)
BERKSHIRE THEATER FESTIVAL MAIN STAGE - STOCKBRIDGE, MA
June 20 - July 05 - CANDIDA - (George Bernard Shaw's classic comedy)
July 11 - 19
- THE
BOOK CLUB PLAY - (Comedy about literature affecting
peoples' lives and thinking)
July 25 - Aug 09
- A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS - (Classic drama
about SirThomas
More)
Aug. 15-Sept.05
- WHOSE AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF? - (Edward Albee's
classic drama)
BERKSHIRE THEATER FESTIVAL UNICORN STAGE - STOCKBRIDGE
May
24 - June 28 - THE CARETAKER - (Harold Pinter s
enigmatic and sinister
comedy about the struggle for power)
July 05 - 26
-
PAGEANT PLAY - (A new, satiric comedy of 2 actor -
playwrights and the twisted world of child pageants)
August 02 - 23 - WAITING FOR GODOT - (Becket's classic tragicomedy)
Aug. 27 - Nov.
09 - ELEANOR: HER SECRET JOURNEY - (A poignant one
woman
play about the private and public struggles of Eleanor
Roosevelt)
CHESTER THEATRE COMPANY - CHESTER, MA
July
02 - 13
- BLACKBIRD
-(A powerful drama of lovers who rendezvous
after 15 years with untamed emotions and passions)
July
16 -17
- ALMOST
MAINE - (A midwinter's night comedy fantasy about
lovers, intrigue and mischief in the town of "Almost, Maine")
July
30 - Aug.10 - THE DISHWASHERS - (A drama set in a
basement scullery
of a fancy restaurant in which menial employees are in
dispute between Marxism and rewards of hard work)
August 13 - 24 - TILTED HOUSE - (A
drama that reaches high emotions and
passions in dangerous games at a summer residence at
Fire Island, Long Island, New York)
colonial
theater - pittsfield, ma
Restored theater featuring year round
presentations with weekly changes. Please contact us
for detailed information.
MAC-HAYDN THEATRE - CHATHAM, NY
May
22-25,May 28-June 01
MY FAIR LADY - ("Pygmalion" with great music)
June 5-8,11-15
- 7 BRIDES FOR 7 BROTHERS - (The
famous MGM movie
musical rip roars onto the live stage)
June 19-11,25-29 - A CHORUS LINE - (Broadway's sold out musical back on stage)
July 24-27,July
30-Aug.03
PHANTOM - (New telling of a classic story with music)
Aug. 07-10,
13-17 - WILL ROGERS FOLLIES - (Filled with wit and
wisdom of
the famous entertainer. Toe tapping tap dancing and
happy, tuneful songs)
Aug
21-24,27-31 THE SOUND
OF MUSIC - (Rodger's and Hammerstein's
enduring classic with kids and wonderful music)
August 30 only CABARET - (The classic musical set in 1930's Germany)
mahaiwe theater
- great barrington, ma
Restored theater featuring year
round presentations with weekly changes. Please contact us
for detailed information.
SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY - FOUNDERS THEATRE -LENOX, MA
THE
LADIES MAN - (French farce about and over aggressive
mother-in-law suspecting her daughter's husband of being
"naughty")
(evenings
at 8:00 PM) June
06-08, 13-15, July 26, 31; July 13, 17, 24,
27, August 01,
03, 06, 15, 29 ;(mornings
at 10:30 AM) August 03, 09, 17,
23
ALL'S
WELL THAT ENDS WELL- (Classic Shakespeare comedy)
OTHELLO
- (Shakespeare's classic tragedy)
(evenings
at 8:00 PM) July 25, 30, August
01, 07, 10, 12, 15, 21, 26, 29
;
(matinees at 3:00 PM) July
31, August 02, 03, 06, 08, 08, 13, 16, 20, 23, 24, 27, 30, 31
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY - ELAYNE P. BERNSTEIN THEATRE - LENOX, MA
THE GOATWOMAN OF CORVIS COUNTY - (A dark comedy about life in dreams and reality)
(evenings
at 8:30 PM) - August 01-03, 6-8, 13,
14, 20, 22, 28, 31
(matinees
at 3:30 PM) - August 05, 09, 10,
12, 15-17, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 29-31
(mornings
at 10:30 AM) - August 02, 10, 16, 24,
30
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST - (A hysterical comedy about a modern family who buys a
haunted house with one special feature - a 16 century ghost,
by Oscar Wilde)
(evenings
at
7:30 PM) - September 19, 20, 21,
25-17,
(matinees
at 2:00 PM) - September 21, 28
NOTE:
This is not a complete listing. Please contact us for additional
information
as many other performances and lectures are also
available. Performances are also given
throughout the late fall and winter.
THE THEATER BARN - NEW LEBANON, NY
June
13 - 22 HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES - (Alan
Ayckbourn's farce about 2 married
couples project their infidelities on a third backwards husband and
wife)
June 26 - July 06 SAME TIME
NEXT YEAR - (This classic audience chosen comedy tells a
tale of a man and woman who meet accidentally and begin an annual
and begin an annual affair one weekend a year that lasts throughout
adult lives)
July 10 -
20 THE MOUSETRAP - (Another audience
favorite and perhaps the best known
of the Agatha Christie murder mystery "who dunnits" as it's the
longest
running play in the world with a classic Christie twist ending)
July 24-Aug
03 MUSICAL OF MUSICALS - (A
brand new, must see Off-Broadway hit that is
witty and refreshing,
it is several musicals in one as it tells the
same story
as seen through the eyes of five composers)
Aug. 07 -
17 FOREVER PLAID - (Revisit
the most romantic songs ever written in this
hilarious musical comedy that salutes the popularity and close
harmonies of the “guy groups” that reached it’s zenith in the 1950’s)
Aug. 21 -
31 GREASE - (Another
record breaker now enjoying a Broadway revival, this
takes us to Rydell High in 1959 with a score that celebrates '50’s rock
and roll, doo-wop music and lots of teenage antics)
Sept.05 -
14 VISITING MR. GREEN - (Paths
cross in an unlikely way when two men who
dislike being in the same room together overcome their differences
and develop a heart warming, poignant, and enriching friendship)
williamstown
theatre festival MAIN STAGE - williamstown, ma
June
27 - July 12 SHE LOVES ME - (Jerry Bock's musical
comedy about a pair of lovers
never fails to charm audiences)
July 16 -
27 THE
THREE SISTERS - (A Chekov classic about three sisters who yearn
for romantic passion in Moscow ultimately learn about life's truths.
July 31 -
Aug.10 A FLEA IN HER EAR - (This comedy set in
1900's Paris about mistaken
identities will entertain audiences and tickle their funny bones)
August 13 -
24 HOME - (A drama about four
friends meet in a park to discuss their life's
happenings and their strange personal events)
williamstown theatre festival NIKOS STAGE - williamstown, ma
June 11 -
22 BEYOND
THERAPY - (A chance meeting through a personal ad provides
two New Yorkers with a multitude of topics for their therapy sessions.
The lines between doctor and patient, however, are hilariously blurred
This whacky Christopher Durang classic delivers a water splashing,
show tune-humming look at the idiosyncrasies of the heart)
June 25-July
06 THE ATHEIST - (Augustine Early is a
reporter who will do anything to get
his front page story. When shady political dealings whet his appetite
for success, the consequences could be more than he anticipated,
deterring his quest to catch a pitch-perfect headline)
July 10 -
20
BROKE-OLOGY - (The King family weathered the hardships of life and
survived with the love of each other in tact. But when two brothers
are called home to take care of their ailing father, one of them must
choose the life he dreams of, or honor, or honor the unspoken loyalty
to his family)
July 23 -
Aug.03 THE UNDERSTUDY - (Box office heroes
and washed-up has-beens take
heed. The play's the thing. In this bitingly, witty and world
premier
comedy by Theresa Rebeck, the lights of Broadway take an unbecoming
glow at one of the most unbecoming roles in the theater, the understudy)
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2008
Tanglewood
complete concert listing
2008 Tanglewood
complete concert listing