Arts Beat: Amid pandemic, memorable performances abounded in 2022

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The arts community in Western New England survived the COVID-19 pandemic, and although some companies and productions were “leaner and meaner” than in pre-pandemic times, the quantity and quality of area productions was outstanding.

There were several new leaders amongst area theaters. Alan Paul, a young director from the Shakespeare Theatre Company, with multiple awards on the Washington, D.C., theater scene, was named artistic director at Barrington Stage Company, replacing the retiring co-founder Julianne Boyd, who started the theater in a high school in Sheffield and turned it into a thriving multi-theater complex in Pittsfield. Local actors and directors Tara Franklin and James Barry were named co-directors of Chester Theatre Company, replacing Daniel Elihu Kramer, who stepped down to become chair of Smith College’s theater department.

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