Solo Show TRAVELS WITH A MASKED MAN Comes to the Colonial This Summer

Berkshire Theatre Group announces the next On The Stage Series installment, Travels with a Masked Man by John Hadden, at The Colonial Theatre on Sunday, June 18 at 2pm.

Tickets to Travels with a Masked Man are $20. Contact the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street, Pittsfield by calling 413-997-4444. Tickets can also be bought online at www.berkshiretheatregroup.org. The Ticket Office is open Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday's 10am-2pm or on any performance day from 10am until curtain.

Travels with a Masked Man, by John Hadden, is a play about deception, "the game" (espionage) and rough filial love. It is a fifty-minute, two-character, solo performance based on his book, Conversations with a Masked Man: My Father, the CIA, and Me.

Haunted by unanswered questions about his childhood overseas, a man confronts his father, an ex-CIA chief who ruminates darkly on the American Empire, the human animal, and himself. Alternately horrifying, hilarious, and poignant, their verbal contest covers Cold War material from Vietnam to the Middle East and the Bomb, from abstract art to James Bond films--but the real conversation, the subtext, is about what they mean to each other.

John Hadden has worked as a theater-maker in the Berkshires and abroad for 40 years. He was a founding member and Associate Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Co, in Lenox, MA; Artistic Director of the Hubbard Hall Theater Company in Cambridge, NY; Associate Artist with We Players in San Francisco; and Artistic Director/Co-Founder of Counterpoint Theater in Boston, MA. His own plays-Stray Dogs, Hard Rain, King Fool, Women at War, and his one-acts-have won awards and have been seen at Ensemble Studio Theater, PS 122, LaMama ETC, Firehouse 13, Providence, Northampton Center for the Arts, Hubbard Hall, We Players, The Theater Project, Brunswick, ME, and Mixed Company.

BTG's On The Stage Series gives audiences the opportunity to see their favorite performers, up close and personal, with artists and audience together on the historic Colonial stage.

The Colonial Theatre, founded in 1903, and Berkshire Theatre Festival, founded in 1928, are two of the oldest cultural organizations in the Berkshires. In 2010, under the leadership of Artistic Director and CEO Kate Maguire, the two organization merged to form Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG). Berkshire Theatre Group's mission is to support wide ranging artistic exploration and acclaimed performances in theatre, dance, music and entertainment. Every year, BTG produces and presents performances to over 68,000 attendees and, through our Educational Program, serves over 13,000 Berkshire County schoolchildren annually. BTG's celebrated stages reflect the history of the American theatre; they represent a priceless cultural resource for the community.

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