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Review: A Welcome Revival Of "Company" At Barrington Stage

By Dan Shaw As I sat spellbound at Barrington Stage Company’s sassy production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical “Company,” a kaleidoscope of vintage pop-culture images from that year shimmered in my brain. I flashbacked to television shows (“Laugh-In” and “Love American Style”), movies (“Diary of a Mad Housewife”

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Joy Brown's Roly Poly Figures Go From Kent To Broadway

One Holding Small One at 96th Street. Photo by Katharine Manning. By CB Wismar When you look into the faces of Joy Brown’s larger-than-life, thousand-pound-plus figures, they look back. The eyes are open and alert. The faces are not nervous or self-conscious. “There is no culture, no gender, no

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Tina Packer Completes The Bard's Oeuvre, But She's Not Done Yet

Packer in "Antony and Cleopatra" at Shakespeare & Co. Photo: Kevin Sprague. By Jeremy D. Goodwin When Tina Packer first led a troupe of actors up to the Berkshires from New York in 1978 and took residence in Edith Wharton’s then-neglected home, The Mount, the group produced

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Live On The Lawn: Outdoor Concerts In The RI Region

By Amy Krzanik This list, by no means exhaustive, offers a starting point for you to explore some of our region’s many outdoor music events, where you don’t need to have RSVPed to drop in on the scene. Some venues offer food and drink for purchase, and some

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Filmmaker Joan Kron, 89, Is The Freshest Face At BIFF

By Dan Shaw It’s befitting that the octogenarian producer and director of the plastic-surgery documentary "Take My Nose . . . Please!" doesn’t look her age. “Do you think I’d have gotten funding for this film and be taken seriously on the film festival circuit if I looked

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The RuraList: The Big Six At Building 6

By Nichole DupontMASS MoCA, the unofficial Louvre of the Northeast, is about to unveil its newly renovated Building 6 on Sunday, May 28. The 130,000 square feet of space will be the new home of changing exhibitions, long-term installations, and so much natural light that it can alter the

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Food, Farming And Sex: Alice Clayton's Hudson Valley Series

By Andrea Pyros Inspiration comes at the oddest of moments. For best-selling romance novelist Alice Clayton, the idea for her sexy, saucy, food-obsessed Hudson Valley-based trilogy — Nuts, Cream of the Crop and Buns — came to her while she was waiting in line to buy cucumbers at her local St. Louis

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The 12th Annual BIFF Reveals Karen Allen's Filmmaking Chops

By CB Wismar The 12th Annual Berkshire International Film Festival – affectionately known as “BIFF” opens with its much-anticipated gala on Thursday, June 1 in Great Barrington. The schedule of films, as always, is eclectic. Fresh features that capture the essence of independent film making on a global scale ("In

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Dani Shapiro's 'Hourglass' Explores A Marriage Over Time

In her new memoir, Hourglass (Knopf), Dani Shapiro of Litchfield County excavates and celebrates her marriage of nearly 20 years to screenwriter/director Michael Maren. In her previous critically acclaimed memoirs—Slow Motion and Devotion —Shapiro has put her personal history under the microscope to come to terms with her

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'Love Where You Eat' Brings Joan Osofsky To The Table

By Dan Shaw “Here in the country, when you invite people to dinner, they always ask, “What can I bring?” writes Joan Osofsky in her new book, Entertaining in the Country: Love Where You Eat (Rizzoli.)  Osofsky, who owns the Hammertown stores in Great Barrington, Pine Plains and Rhinebeck, understands

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Season Preview 2017: As Always, Our Cup Runneth Over

When it comes time to compile this annual season preview, there’s a lot of counting involved. We aim for ten selections from the categories of theater, music and dance, but there’s always some juggling as the list gets longer and one category perhaps loses an item so another

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Audition Day At Sharon Playhouse: The Callbacks

By CB Wismar “Find your own boogie!” Choreographer Chris DeVita’s words bounce around the Bok Gallery at Sharon Playhouse and are met with a chorus of nervous laughter. These are the “callback” auditions — the second opportunity for regional actors to secure a place in this season’s production of

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