5.8.08
Weekend Highlights May 9-11
THE ROGOVOY REPORT
5.6.08
[PRESS RELEASE] Pinchas Zukerman daughter Natalia to headline at Club Helsinki
Coming to Great Barrington, Mass., nightclub on May 18
5.2.08
Singer/composer Jenny Scheinman at MASS MoCA is weekend's top pick
Preview by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.25.08
[FILM REVIEW] Shine a Light (The Rolling Stones)
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.17.08
[FILM REVIEW] The Counterfeiters
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.11.08
Klezmatics do Woody Guthrie's Jewish songs
Weekend highlights, April 11-13
3.17.08
GOLEM returns to Club Helsinki for PURIM this Friday night
Press Release from Club Helsinki
3.8.08
CHEESE TO BE SPOKEN OF AND EATEN ON MARCH 30
part of BERKSHIRE LIVING's REST OF THE STORY series
2.25.08
Richard Thompson, America, and Madeline Peyroux added to Mahaiwe lineup this spring
Mahaiwe press release
7.1.07
[DANCE REVIEW] State Ballet of Georgia at Jacob's Pillow
Review from the NEW YORK TIMES
2.24.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Urban vs. Pastoral Music at the Mahaiwe courtesy of Close Encounters with Music
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.18.08
[THEATER REVIEW] TRUMBO at Barrington Stage
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.18.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Sarah Aroeste's neo-Ladino at Club Helsinki
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.21.08
[FILM REVIEW] THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.11.08
[COMEDY REVIEW] The Flying Karamazov Brothers at the Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.11.08
[COMEDY REVIEW] The Flying Karamazov Brothers at the Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
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[THEATER PREVIEW] EDUCATING RITA at BTF
8.27.07
BERKSHIRE THEATRE FESTIVAL
Educating Rita
Unicorn Theater, Stockbridge, Mass.
A Berkshire Theater presentation of a play in two acts by Willy Russell. Directed by Richard Corley.
Frank - Jonathan Epstein
Rita - Tara Franklin
by CHRIS NEWBOUND from VARIETY
Educating Rita, with its ever-popular "Pygmalion" storyline, is the perfect play to fill out a regional theater season. Not surprisingly, the dependable Berkshire Theater Festival delivers a solid if somewhat paint-by-numbers production of the one-set two-hander about an undereducated working-class girl looking for transformation and the overeducated professor she meets. But despite providing a suitable number of laughs while dealing with the more serious topics of education and the U.K. class system, helmer Richard Corley's take on Willy Russell's '80s comedy barely lingers in the mind beyond the drive home.
The play has a proven track record, having had a successful run on the West End some 25 years ago and spawning a memorable film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters (who both received Oscar noms for their perfs in it). But its theatrical structure, with its too-many-to-count first act scenes, is awkward. The numerous blackouts and costume changes grow wearisome despite the bouncy period punk tunes used to fill the silence.
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