Birds and their migratory habits may be the operative image in “Birds of North America,” which is being given workmanlike treatment at Chester Theatre Company, but it shouldn’t go unnoticed that the central issue in the nature/nurture climate of Anna Ouyang Moench’s play is not only how we protect and nurture nature but how we nurture ourselves and each other as well.

GREAT BARRINGTON — Three words in the title of Alison Larkin’s life-affirming new solo show — grief, musical, comedy — sum it all up. In so ma…

NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — Would that the actual performance of David Mamet’s “Boston Marriage” were as playful as the pre-curtain ragtime music dire…

Jeffrey Borak writes: "That our theaters were able to produce anything at all was an act of bravery and courage, irrespective of the quality of the work."