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BUSINESS BRIEFS: The Foundry appoints Noh Bailey

By Monica Bliss
Published September 8, 2025
The Berkshire Edge
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…
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Ballet, wardrobe hints and a showgirl unleashed are on stage in September at The Foundry in West Stockbridge

By Ellen Spear
Published September 1, 2025
Berkshires Week
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…
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Pluto String Ensemble brings heart, history, and harmony to The Foundry

By Carolyn Newberger
Published August 15, 2025
The Berkshire Edge
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…
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From isolation to understanding: 2nd Street Second Chances, Foundry collaboration unites families touched by incarceration

By Amanda Burke
Published August 15, 2025
The Berkshire Eagle
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…
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A little magic, a little improv, a little music and a lot of drag at the Foundry in West Stockbridge this month

By Ellen Spear
Published August 2, 2025
Berkshires Week
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…
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Alec Mapa to Kick Off HA! PENIS! National Tour in MA in July

By Chloe Rabinowitz
Published July 15, 2025
Broadway World
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…
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In the Berkshires, NYC’s Ground UP Takes On Nukes in Provocative “Treaty”

By Kenneth Jones
Published May 18, 2025
BKJ
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…
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Interested in learning ‘How Not To Blow Up The Planet?’ A new play, ‘Treaty,’ will teach you everything you need to know about nuclear disarmament

By Matt Martinez
Published May 17, 2025
The Berkshire Eagle
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…
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At The Foundry, ‘A Crucible’ turns Arthur Miller on his head in new Fringe-inspired farce

By Jeffrey Borak
Published April 22, 2025
The Berkshire Eagle
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…
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April at The Foundry in West Stockbridge has out-of-the-ordinary music and theater you won’t want to miss

By Ellen Spear
Published March 24, 2025
Berkshires Week
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.…
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In ‘A Night of Drama,’ an improv comedy riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’

By Aaron Simon Gross
Published December 5, 2024
The Berkshire Eagle
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…
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With ‘Replacing Prancer,’ Tom Truss writes a new Christmas play

By Aaron Simon Gross
Published November 27, 2024
The Berkshire Eagle
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,…
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Steven Santoro fixates on the idea that everyone is ‘here. gone.’ So he wrote a song cycle about it

By Aaron Simon Gross
Published October 10, 2024
The Berkshire Eagle
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,…
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CONCERT REVIEW: Skye Consort & Emma Björling at The Foundry, Oct. 1

By DAVID NOEL EDWARDS
Published October 8, 2024
The Berkshire Edge
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…
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They ‘shut down their humanity to survive.’ Performance tells the stories of formerly incarcerated Berkshire County men

By Amanda Burke
Published August 7, 2024
The Berkshire Eagle
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…
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Pamela Z plans to fill The Foundry with her signature vocal gymnastics and electronic sounds

By Sharon Smullen
Published August 4, 2024
The Berkshire Eagle
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…
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‘Circle Round’ podcast hosts Rebecca Sheir and Eric Shimelonis want to help you become a better storyteller

By Sharon Smullen
Published July 14, 2024
The Berkshire Eagle
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…
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REVIEW: Orkney fiddler Louise Bichan wows Foundry crowd in West Stockbridge

By DAVID NOEL EDWARDS
Published May 14, 2024
The Berkshire Edge
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…
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Traveling fiddler Louise Bichan re-created her grandmother’s journey across Canada.

By Kate Abbott
Published May 1, 2024
The Berkshire Eagle
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…
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REVIEW: 65th Street Ensemble at The Foundry on April 20

By DAVID NOEL EDWARDS
Published April 25, 2024
The Berkshire Edge
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…
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