That's a long time not to travel in the summer, the spring or the fall, right? So we have planned right now a three week trip to Japan." There's also a family trip to Tuscany and reading fiction "without dialogue."įrom “Lady Day” to the world premiere of “A Crossing,” Boyd has shown a keen ear for musicals. "What do I plan on doing? First thing to do is travel. Still, there have been limitations on her and her husband.
And there certainly hasn’t been any artistic fall-off at Barrington Stage, as witnessed by the company's stunning recent fall musical about U.S.-Mexico immigration issues, " A Crossing." She’ll be 77 soon, though there haven't been any signs of a diminution of her energy level as she ambles along the less-mean streets of Pittsfield, where she relocated the theater in 2005. That tenure ends at the end of the next season when, after 28 years at the helm, Boyd steps down as artistic director. Gail Nelson as Billie Holiday in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill," the initial offering of Barrington Stage Company. It would come to symbolize much of Julianne Boyd’s tenure at the theater she cofounded, which from its humble beginnings at its digs in a high school auditorium in Sheffield, outside of Great Barrington, became one of the leading theaters not only in the Berkshires, but in all of New England. Instead, there was the one-woman show (with pianist), " Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill," a play with music about one of Billie Holiday’s last concerts in 1959 at a seedy Philadelphia bar.Īfter parting ways rather acrimoniously with the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge after two years, “Lady Day” was the initial offering from her new troupe, the Barrington Stage Company (and my first summer as Boston Globe theater critic). When I first met Julie Boyd, she was hanging outside a tavern in Housatonic, a former Berkshires mill town just down the road from Stockbridge but light years away from the tonier Rockwellian village in terms of the moneyed denizens and acreage.īut neither one of us was there for the booze there wasn’t any that night at the Macono Inn in 1995. Julianne Boyd, founder and artistic director of Barrington Stage Company.
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