Berkshire Theatre Group’s 2015 summer season, presented at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield and Fitzpatrick Main Stage in Stockbridge, features a variety of audience favorites and includes another in the organization’s series of community productions, Mary Poppins, which will have one hundred Berkshire youngsters in the cast. The schedule runs from July 1 through August 23, 2015.
Berkshire Theatre, Fitzpatrick Main Stage – Deathtrap
- by Ira Levin
- Directed by Aaron Mark
- July 1 – July 25, 2015
- Fitzpatrick Main Stage, Stockbridge
Deathtrap, known as the longest-running comedy thriller on Broadway, is a sidesplitting romp of a play within a play that tells the tale of defeated playwright, Sidney Bruhl, who would do almost anything to write a hit Broadway play. Former student, Clifford Anderson, tells Sidney that he’s written a suspense play with a seamless plot that’s sure to be Broadway-bound. Jaw-dropping hilarity ensues as the zany characters weave a web of mystery in two acts.
Berkshire Theatre, Colonial Theatre – Bells Are Ringing
- book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- music by Julie Styne
- directed by Ethan Heard
- featuring Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat
- July 9 – July 26, 2015
- Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield
Bells Are Ringing is the Tony Award-nominated musical that made Judy Holliday a star. Written by seven-time Tony Award-winners Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Bells Are Ringing was originally directed by Jerome Robbins and choreographed by Robbins and Bob Fosse. This fetching and farcical love story includes notable show tunes, Long Before I Knew You, Just in Time, and The Party’s Over.
Berkshire Theatre, Fitzpatrick Main Stage – Frankie and Johnny In the Clair de Lune
- by Terrence McNally
- directed by Karen Allen
- July 29 – August 25, 2015
- Fitzpatrick Main Stage, Stockbridge
Terrence McNally’s play Frankie And Johnny In the Clair de Lune is about finding love in the modern world. After a onenight rendezvous in Manhattan’s West Side, Johnny, a compulsive, starry-eyed, short-order cook, is convinced he has found his life companion in Frankie, a wisecracking waitress. Frankie’s poor history with men leaves her hesitant to commit, but as the night progresses, she lets her guard down and an unlikely romance begins to blossom. Directed by Berkshires resident movie star Karen Allen.
Berkshire Theatre, Colonial Theatre – Mary Poppins
- original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
- book by Julian Fellowes
- new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe
- directed by Travis G. Daly
- August 13 – August 23, 2015
- Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield
Mary Poppins, written by Julian Fellowes of Downton Abbey fame, is Berkshire Theatre Group’s 10th Annual Community Theatre Production. For the third time in a BTG community production, actors will fly through The Colonial Theatre, the first two years ago in Peter Pan, the second in last year’s community production Seussical. This year’s 10th annual community production will feature over 100 Berkshire
County natives tap dancing and chimney sweeping.
Berkshire Theatre Group contact info., map, directions:
- Colonial Theatre
- 111 South St.
- Pittsfield, MA 01201
- Fitzpatrick Main Stage
- 6 East St,
- Stockbridge, MA 01262
- 413-997-4444
- TheColonialTheatre.org
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The schedule for Shakespeare & Company’s 2015 summer season includes three Shakespeare plays, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors and Hamlet, plus the Regional Premiere of Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti, and the World Premiere of Jane Anderson’s Mother of the Maid, which stars former artistic director and company co-founder Tina Packer. Running from Memorial Day weekend through mid-September, S & Co.’s schedule opens with The How and the Why, a new play by Sarah Treem, and also features The Unexpected Man by Yasmina Reza. 
