About NewBerkshire.com
On NewBerkshire, you will find reviews of plays, concerts, and dance performances presented at the leading arts and entertainment venues in Berkshire county, including Tanglewood, Jacob's Pillow, the Berkshire and Williamstown Theatre Festivals, Shakespeare and Company, Barrington Stage Company, as well as exhibitions and other events at the Clark Art Institute, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MASS MoCA in North Adams, plus various feature articles and interviews.
About Frances Benn Hall
Frances Benn Hall’s first play was produced at the University of Wisconsin where she recieved a Master of Arts degree in Theatre. Since that time, she has written many plays and has been in playwriting seminars led by John Gassner, Harold Clurman, Sinclair Lewis, and William Gibson.
She has furthered her theatre studies at UCLA, Trinity
College Oxford, and at Yeats and Synge summer schools in
Ireland, where in 1995, she was playwright in residence at
the Kiltartan Hedge School.
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About Dave Conlin Read
Covering the arts and entertainment scene in the
Berkshires since the late ’90s, NewBerkshire is
published by Dave Conlin Read, a native of Oswego, NY who
moved to the Berkshires in 1981 to take a position teaching
English at a residential school for emotionally-disturbed
adolescents. He segued into working with adult consumers of
mental health services in 1990 and was ready for services
himself when the Internet came along mid-decade.
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