Berkshire Home And Garden Expo Is Back

Staff Reports05:21PM / Friday, March 11, 2011Print Story | Email Story

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — The Berkshire Home and Garden Expo is back.

The largest home show in the county is back at the Berkshire Mall this weekend. Between the hours of 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Sunday more than 40 local businesses will be showing off their goods.

The exhibitors are:
Aerus Electrolux
Alpine Solar Heat and Hot Water
Alteris Renewables
Berkshire Bank
Berkshire Bathworks
Berkshire Community College
Berkshire County Modulars
Berkshire County Stoves
Berkshire Outdoor
Berkshire Remodeling/Four Seasons Sunrooms

Bertelli's Landscaping & Design
Carr Hardware
ChiropracticWorks
Clean Sweep Chimney Sweep
Culligan Water Conditioning Inc.
Don Davis Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Refrigeration
E. Weider Mechanical Plumbing & Heating
Fit Perfect Window Systems, LLC
Fox Homes
Henshaw Well Drilling

Home Depot At Home Services
Home Instead Senior Care
John's Building Supply
Madsen Overhead Doors, Inc.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Morrison's Home Improvement
New England Newspapers, Inc.
New England Solar & Green Solutions

OxyMagic Carpet and Upholstery
Patio Enclosures
Pittsfield Lawn & Tractor
Pride Plumbing and Heating
Re-Bath of Western MA
Ryan Landscaping
Sondrini Enterprises
St. Pierre Cooling & Heating
Steven's World of Flooring
Superior Seamless Gutters
Tastefully Simple - Jen Barbeau
Tatro Contracting
TD Bank
Trustco Bank

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Great Barrington Public Theater Appoints Artistic Director

09:57AM / Monday, December 29, 2025

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Great Barrington Public Theater announced that Associate Artistic Director Judy Braha will now join Jim Frangione at the helm as Artistic Director of Great Barrington Public Theater.

"We at Great Barrington Public Theater are thrilled that Judy Braha will assume the role of Artistic Director alongside myself. I couldn't have asked for a better partner to help advance the interests of the theater as we move into the next phase of growth as the region's premiere developmental theater," Founder & Artistic Director Jim Frangione said. "Judy brings a tremendous amount of experience and value to our company and has, in just a few short years, grown and greatly enhanced GB Public Theater's signature program, Berkshires Voices, where playwrights develop their work, leading to public readings and in some cases workshops and full productions. I look forward to working more closely with Judy to select the next generation of plays to be presented under the GB Public banner. It's a "Bear" of a job! But we feel great about the direction of our theater."

Judy Braha joined the GB Public artistic leadership team in 2023 as the Associate Artistic Director after 2 years directing for the company. She has since then been collaborating with Founder and Artistic Director Jim Frangione on the selection of new work for readings and full productions in the summer season. Her impressive portfolio of credits and accomplishments strengthened Great Barrington Public's creative programming and offered new perspectives to the body of works and events produced each year.

Judy Braha has been a career director, actor, teacher and artist for social justice for over four decades with directorial credits in theaters and universities throughout New England. She led the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University's School of Theater, retiring in 2022 after 29 years of service at BU.

"Judy has the strength of commitment, leadership and passion for theater and how it affects communities that fit hand-in-glove with our founding mission and core beliefs," Founder and Producing Director Deann Halper Simmons explains. "Her artistic integrity, sense of stage esthetic and ability to make important choices that craft life from the script continues to be a great asset to our company and growth."

"Judy's distinguished artistic voice has significantly contributed to the exceptional growth of GB Public in recent years," Managing Director Serena Johnson added. "We are truly excited to have her stepping into this leadership role in the 2026 season."

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