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 Pat Nichols

After Pat Nichols, a lifelong Pittsfield resident, raised a family of seven children, she graduated from Berkshire Community College and then received her BA in English at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Following graduation she did graduate work at Trinity College, Oxford, England.

She began her career as a journalist and her work has appeared in such publications as The Boston Globe, The Albany Times-Union, Entrepreneur Magazine, and many other national magazines. She writes regularly for The Berkshire Eagle and has written for virtually every newspaper in the Berkshire area.

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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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