Jeffrey Borak

2 days ago | berkshireeagle.com | Jeffrey Borak

GREAT BARRINGTON — It’s been a long time coming — five years to be exact — but playwright, director, producer Joan Ackermann’s Mixed Company is back in business in its home for the better part of 43 years at the former Granary alongside the railroad tracks at the top of Rossetter Street. Ackermann This is a subscriber exclusive story. Subscribe today to access this story and all of our stories with 24/7 unlimited access. Subscribe today. Cancel anytime.

1 week ago | berkshireeagle.com | Jeffrey Borak

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Roughly three-quarters of the way through the second act of Sara Bareilles’ tuneful musical, “Waitress," Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and pie maker whose distinctively original creations are the main attraction at Joe’s Pie Diner, finds herself, figuratively, amid the crumbs of her rapidly disintegrating life. Theater reviewWhat: "Waitress." This is a subscriber exclusive story.

1 week ago | berkshireeagle.com | Jeffrey Borak

ALBANY, N.Y. — There is a moment in John Spellos’ “Rosie is Red and Everybody is Blue” when the matriarch of a working class Black family in Albany is referred to by her generally easygoing live-in brother-in-law as “a force to be reckoned with.”Theater reviewWhat: “Rosie is Red and Everybody is Blue” by John Spellos.

1 week ago | berkshireeagle.com | Jeffrey Borak

Wendel Patrick celebrates 10 years of Out of the Blocks with a May 2 performance at the MOSAIC EventSpace, honoring Baltimore’s voices through music and storytelling.

2 weeks ago | berkshireeagle.com | Jeffrey Borak

PITTSFIELD — Set in the backyard of a home in Manorhaven, a village in Port Washington, on Long Island’s North Shore, Molly Smith Metzler’s play, “Cry It Out,” deals with the relationship among three newly minted mothers in their mid-to-late-30s — each with careers; each wrestling with the demands and responsibilities of new motherhood; each at a crossroad as they weigh their newfound domestic role against economic imperatives.