SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — For the first time in a while there is positive entertainment news. Actors’ Equity has granted two Berkshire theater companies permission to produce live theater.

Barrington Stage Company will offer the one-man show “Henry Clarke,” Aug. 5-16 and from Aug. 6 – Sept. 4, Berkshire Theatre Group will offer a 10-person production of the musical “Godspell.”

“Henry Clarke” is presented inside the severely scaled down main stage space, while “Godspell” is offered outside, under a tent, at the Colonial Theater’s parking lot. Both productions are in Pittsfield, MA, and are following stringent safety and social distancing guidelines, including all audience members wearing masks.

More good news coming from the Berkshires is that three major art museums have opened. The Clark Art Museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Mass MoCa in North Adams, Massachusetts and the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts opened earlier this week.

Capacity at the museums have been reduced, tickets must be ordered in advance, masks must be worn, social distancing must be observed, and contact names offered upon arrival.

There is also good news on the digital front. This is a terrific week for digital theater offerings. “The Line,” a new play about the COVID-19 crisis, is a 60-minute offering that is a humane look at the people on the front lines saving patients during the worst moments of the pandemic.

It’s free on the You Tube Channel of the Public Theater until Aug. 4.

And finally, Irish Repertory Theater has put its production of “The Irish and How We Got This Way” on line. It’s available at the Irish Rep You Tube Channel through July 19.

It was the show that was forced to close at Capital Rep after only two performances. Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill, producing-artistic director of Capital Rep has promised it will be on the theater’s schedule in 2021. While the Irish Rep production has many charming moments, Cap Rep offered a more solid and unified interpretation of the material.

Looking a bit ahead to July 25, the Irish Rep will next stream a production of Colin McPherson’s “The Weir.” It is a great story about a group of people in a local pub in Ireland, who start telling ghost stories. All are eerie but the final story is above and beyond the others.

It is a production that has been created for digital streaming and few plays can work better in the online format. It airs July 21-25 at Irish Rep’s You Tube Channel.

The bad news about National Theatre Live – at Home’s summer online season, is that tonight is the final offering of a phenomenal group of plays. The good news is the final show, “Amadeus,” might be one of the best in the series. It starts at 4 p. m. today and continues until 2 p.m. July 23.

“Amadeus” is about the fatal competition between young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his jealous mentor Antonio Salieri. Written by Peter Shaffer, it is one of the great plays of the latter half of the 20th century. It airs on the National Theatre’s You Tube Channel.

This is also a great week for lovers of opera. The rest of the week the Metropolitan Opera is showing online some of it’s great past performances. Tonight, is the psychologically dark “Wozzeck” which Austrian composer Alban Berg adapted from a incomplete play Georg Bucher started in the 1830’s, but he died before completing it.

Berg’s opera, which was greatly influenced by his participation in World War I, was considered the first avant-garde opera. The 1 hr. 40-minute work is still powerful, disturbing and relevant. This is the production that was produced at the Met as recently as January of this year.

On Friday, the series offers Rossini’s version of the Cinderella myth, “La Cenerentola,” originally presented at the Met in 2008. Sunday is the Mozart popular opera “La Nozze di Figaro,” from 2014 and Monday the series closes with the 1982 acclaimed production of Puccini’s “La Boheme,” directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

Each opera is available at 7:30 p.m. and is available until 6:30 the following day. They are available through the Met website and the Met’s Opera on Demand app.

Yes, it is a very good week for entertainment.