The Foundry appoints Noh Bailey as Creative Managing Director West Stockbridge— The Foundry appoints Noh Bailey as Creative Managing Director. Bailey has held the Marketing Director position at the venue since…
September at the Foundry is a genre mashup. You’ll see a performance of contemporary ballet fused with visual art, extreme forms of dressing for work, some colorful characters fighting to…
They played with the kind of musicality that makes you sit a little taller—clean, intelligent phrasing, infectious rhythmic vitality, and an ensemble cohesion that only years of shared history can…
Photo by Keith ForemanPhoto by Keith ForemanPhoto by Keith ForemanPhoto by Keith Foreman PITTSFIELD — When Noh Bailey signed on to perform in a new theater production about families of…
One of the Berkshires venues that always keeps us on the artistic edge is The Foundry in West Stockbridge. Their intimate space in the intimate downtown brings performers from the…
During his previous worldwide comedy tour, actor and comedian Alec Mapa (Ugly Betty, Doom Patrol, Frasier, RuPaul’s Drag Race) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Undaunted, he fulfilled his club…
Ground UP Productions, the indie Off-Broadway company known for presenting readings and eclectic productions in New York City, is taking its act on the road for a residency at The Foundry in…
Seth Shelden, general counsel and United Nations liaison for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, will perform in the upcoming production of “Treaty: A Play About How Not To…
WEST STOCKBRIDGE — For Artistic Director Michael F. Toomey and the other members of the Brooklyn-based The Humanist Project, making theater is all about play. “We believe that play is…
Tucked in the quiet hamlet of West Stockbridge is a venue dedicated to bringing out-of-the-mainstream talent and up-and-coming performers to watch. This spring, April’s lineup has a lot to like.…
WEST STOCKBRIDGE — Have you ever sat in an audience, not enjoying yourself, wishing you could express your displeasure to the actors onstage? Jack Grossman and Zoe Wohlfeld have an…
SHEFFIELD — Tom Truss was chatting with a friend after seeing her in a particularly bad Christmas play when he blurted out, “I can write a better play blindfolded, or dead,…
WEST STOCKBRIDGE — Steven Santoro has spent a lot of his life thinking about death. “I don’t want to call it an obsession, because I think everybody has it really,…
Lots of groups combine elements of music from Scandinavia, Ireland, Scotland, England, and French Canada. None of them do it like Skye Consort. West Stockbridge — Skye Consort & Emma Björling…
PITTSFIELD — Five men moved about the black stage, then laid down limbs entwined, embodying the image of bodies discarded. They were the actors developing the script for a new theater…
WEST STOCKBRIDGE — When composer and vocal artist Pamela Z leaves her San Francisco home and heads to the Berkshires, her destination is usually one of the more widely-known cultural…
WEST STOCKBRIDGE — When Ohio natives Rebecca Sheir and Eric Shimelonis met in Washington, D.C., she was a public radio host, reporter and writer, and he was a composer and…
West Stockbridge — Orkney fiddler Louise Bichan seemed taken aback by the uproar that ensued at the conclusion of her band’s very first number at The Foundry on the evening of…
WEST STOCKBRIDGE — The fiddle rocks low, and the mandolin laps like surf on the shore. In their music, they’re invoking the Watch Stone and the Ring of Brodgar, a…
West Stockbridge — Kids these days are into Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and the hip-hop flavor of the week. Kids at the Juilliard School are into other things, lucky for us. We know this is…