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 REVIEW] TRUMBO at Barrington Stage
2.18.08
Barrington Stage Company
TRUMBO
by Christopher Trumbo
based on the letters of Dalton Trumbo
Directed by Julianne Boyd
Starring Thom Christopher and Brian Hutchison
Running through February 24
Review by SETH ROGOVOY, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
(PITTSFIELD, Mass., February 18, 2008) -- Perhaps best known for his novel Johnny Got His Gun, which has been assigned reading to generations of high school students, Dalton Trumbo's career as a Hollywood screenwriter is equally legendary, both for its high level of achievement (his scripts include Spartacus, Roman Holiday, Exodus, and Papillon).
Nevertheless, Dalton Trumbo will probably be best remembered for his refusal to play ball with the House Un-American Activies Committee's investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in his imprisonment and his blacklisting as one of the "Hollywood Ten."
In spite of being blacklisted, Trumbo continued to write for Hollywood under assumed names. He also wrote dozens or hundreds of letters, and his son, Christopher, has drawn from these letters to create an epistolary two-man play featuring his father and himself.
Barrington Stage Company's minimalist production focuses almost exclusively on Dalton Trumbo, so that the effect is as much a reading as it is a play. As Christopher, Brian Hutchison serves mostly as a foil for Trumbo's stories and rantings about the self-justifications and hypocrisies of the committee and those who cooperated with the McCarthy-ite smear campaign.
Thom Christopher makes a convincing Dalton Trumbo, and the production makes clever use of some video and slide projection. Subsequent productions might want to explore greater use of multimedia in order to bring the drama to even greater heights.
SETH ROGOVOY is editor-in-chief and the award-winning critic-at-large of BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine.
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