BERKSHIRE BRIGHT FOCUS.com
Reviewing theatre in Berkshire County, Massachusetts
and theaters within driving distance in New York State (including New York City ),
Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts
YEAR ROUND
Our seasons begin Oct 1 and end September 30
Scroll down to region sections for new reviews
and
see at bottom of page: CDMusic reviews / Book reviews
WELCOME TO ONE MAN'S VIEWS ON THE BERKSHIRE REGIONAL
THEATRE SCENE & MORE.
For reviews for 2018-2021 see blue pages below;
For older reviews go to Archives
MUSE ON NEWS
For the month of April I will be publishing a new poem every day at https://TupeloPress.org/the-3030-project. Each morning a new collection of poems will be posted by eight of us; You can read them there and you can pledge a donation in my name to help Tupelo Press fund the publication of new books of poetry. I have just published a review of three of their recently availablel new books. You will find that review in my new section under BOOK REVIEWS.
With the republication of my first novel, "SMALL IRONIES" by Author Reputation Press following the IPPY Award for my second novel 'CEMENT DUST" (Silver Street Media Books) things are looking up. Benji Cole of CBS Radio's "People of Distinction" has just interviewed me, and the chat will be posted for listeners shortly. (Check back for date of availability.) Meanwhile the book is available at Barnes and Noble.com. Amazon.con and other places including the publisher where it can be purchased as a softcover book or a download. Let me know what you think of it!
WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT'S AVAILABLE?
Click on the links in each region (the most recent at the top) below;
then make up your own mind about what to see.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY/REGION THEATRES
including:
Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Opera Festival, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Berkshire Theatre Group, Chester Theatre, Cranwell, Emergent Ensemble, GhostLit Theatre, Great Barrington Public Theatre, Majestic Theater - West Springfield, Northampton Academy of Music, Pauline Productions, Shakespeare and Company, St. James Place, The Stables at Edith Wharton's The Mount, Studio One, The Town Players, WAM Theatre, Whitney Center for the Arts-Pittsfield, Williamstown Theatre Festival
Oct 1 2021 - Sept. 30,, 2022
VERMONT AND CONNECTICUT THEATRES
Including:
Bennington Community Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Musicals, Hartford Stage, Living Room Theatre, Northern Stage, Oldcastle Theatre, Sharon Playhouse, Weston Playhouse
Oct 1, 2021 _ Sept. 30, 2022
Gypsy Layne Valentine's Spectacular
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
NEW YORK STATE
THEATRES
including:
The Actors' Ensemble, Albany Civic Theatre, Ancram Opera House, Bridge Street Theatre, Broadway and Off- Broadway, Capital Rep, Copake Theatre Company, Harbinger Theatre, Hubbard Hall, MacHaydn Theatre, Proctors Schenectady, PS21, Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Schenectady Civic Players, Theater Barn, Theater at the Grange, Walking the Dog
Oct 1, 2021 - Sept. 30, 2022
Rapunzel; The Tale of a Quaran-Teen
My Witch: The Margaret Hamilton Stories
Current Archives: 2018-2021
Berkshire County + Massachusetts
The Christoper Boy's Communion
Becoming Othello:A Black Girl's Journey
The Importance of Being Earnest
Who Could Ask For Anything More?
Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club
The Hills Are Alive with Rodgers & Hammerstein
American v. 2.1: The Sad Demise & Eventual Extinction of the American Negro
Rock and Roll Man: The Alan Freed Story
Vermont and Connecticut
New York State + New York City
Exiled: The Evolution of Kurt Weill
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Revised)E
Ethel Waters: His Eye is On the Sparrow
The Irish...And How They Got That Way
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Stupid F*%cking Bird
Your Best One
Once On This Island
The Band's Visit
The Snow Queen
Live from WVL Radio Theatre: It's a Wonderful Life
The Inheritance
Pinocchio: All Strung Out
Spamilton, An American Parody
The Subject Was Roses
The Cemetery Club
Sweeney Todd
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
BOOK REVIEWS
i have often written book reviews and have now decided to make them a part of this site rather than just publish them elsewhere.
I also write books and should include other people's review of them. My last novel won an IPPY Silver Aaward for fiction published in the Northeast states (New England and New York State.)
Check back periodically for more new book reviews.