From its first piercing Leonard Bernstein note and electric Jerome Robbins step, Barrington Stage’s marvelous production of “West Side Story” grabs the gut and doesn’t let go for one of the most rapturous, thrilling evenings of musical theatre to grace not only a Berkshire stage but just about any venue anywhere. Many theatre companies aspire to recreate faithfully AND freshly great American musicals but few achieve the drama and vitality that’s on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage

Do you need a reason why in the 2018 summer of our discontent Berkshire Theatre Group has staged Robert E. Sherwood’s seldom-revived, Depression-era, 1935 classic melodrama "The Petrified Forest"? Look no further than the first act when the protagonist remarks “nature is taking the world away from the intellectuals and giving it back to the apes.” Alan Squier, intellectual dilettante, failed author, self-admitted gigolo and ex-husband to an expat rich American has whiled aw