Theatre: Berkshires Stages Burning Bright
"The Centerville Ghost" at Shakespeare & Co., photo by Kevin Sprague
You can’t call it summer stock anymore now that Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, and Shakespeare & Company in Lenox have all extended their seasons into the fall with plays that are meant to challenge as much as entertain.
World Premiere: Rapture on the Roof at Bard's Fisher Center
How do you honor and embellish a great work of architecture? If you’re avant garde Canadian choreographer Noémie Lafrance and the object of your affection is Frank Gehry’s Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, you create a performance piece that requires dancers to climb the exterior walls of the stainless steel building at dusk.
Movies: Short Film Festival in HudsonTime was, the category “Best Short” at the Oscars left even the most film literate in the wider audience puzzled. Now, thanks to the geographically diverse Manhattan Short Film Festival, taking place this weekend (counter-intuitively) in Hudson, cineastes the world over know who’s who when the winner is announced. | 
Art: A Vassar Alumna's Avant-Garde EyeAs a student in the 1980s, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn spent countless hours in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. Now an influential art adviser and curator in New York City, she is exhibiting excerpts from her highly-regarded collection, including Marilyn Minter’s Glazed (excerpted above), at the museum in Poughkeepsie | 
Books: Banned Book Week Celebrates Its 27thBanned Book Week has been around since 1982, yet this year, it feels particularly compelling that we DO SOMETHING. A couple of area bookstores have risen to the occasion: Oblong Books & Music is sponsoring an Internet Scavanger Hunt; Spotty Dog Books & Ale is having a sweet little event for kids. |
