Ken Roht, choreographer-director-writer-performer and all-around theatrical auteur. Arts At Daniel's Art Party, Simon Rocks! Daniel's Art Party, a new performing arts festival at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA, runs from June 12 to July 1. By Editor
Arts Storey Celebrates 35 Years With A Community Book Sale North Adams' own Storey Publishing will hold a community book sale to celebrate its 35 years in business. By Editor
"Saturday Night Fever," at Mac-Haydn, 2017 Arts The Shows Keep Going On at Mac-Haydn And Theater Barn Columbia County theaters Mac-Haydn and The Theater Barn celebrate anniversaries this year. By Editor
Arts 2018 Season Preview: RI's Performing Arts Starter Guide We've got the Summer of 2018's hottest tickets, all in one place, in our season preview. By Editor
Arts Guns In America: A Discussion Starts With Dance And Theater "Rob Day" photo by Yi-Chun Wu By Lisa Green MSNBC and Fox News don’t have a lock on discourse about guns. At Performance Spaces for the 21st Century (PS21) in Chatham, New York, a dancer playing the part of a 9 mm pistol and a male actor By Editor
Arts Jacob’s Pillow Puts Skates on Pittsfield’s 10x10 Festival By Sharon Smullen If ice dancing leaves you cold, Jacob’s Pillow knows how to make it sizzle. Instead of watching sparkly Olympic skaters waltz to bland music, on Friday, Feb. 16 the Pillow will present “Vertical Influences” by Alexandre Hamel’s Montreal-based dance company Le Patin Libre (Free Skate) By Editor
Arts At The First Hudson Jazz Fest, The Lineup Doesn't Miss A Beat Sheila Jordan By Jamie LarsonHudson Hall at the Historic Hudson Opera House has been breathlessly expanding its programming since reopening and relaunching last year, lofting high its immaculately restored performance hall as its figurehead. Even now, during Hudson’s (less and less off) off-season, the Hall is about to put By Editor
Arts In 'Served,' Forklift Dancers Fuse Food Services And Dance Photos courtesy of Forklift Danceworks By Sharon Smullen According to Allison Orr, dance and dancers can take many forms. As artistic director of Forklift Danceworks, she finds her inspiration in the most unlikely places. Take the world of institutional food service. Day and night, these often invisible workers move through By Editor
Arts Man Of Stone: Mark Mennin And His Monumental Creations A profile of Litchfield County-based sculptor Mark Mennin. By Editor
Arts Katharine T. Carter Makes The Art Go Around Katharine T. Carter with Hugo T. Poodle. Photo: Michelle Barclay. By Jamie Larson As patrons and appreciators of the fine arts that fill the institutions and galleries across our region, most of us spend little time contemplating how the art got there. The complex mechanisms, bureaucracy and caprice that fill By Editor
Arts At Hudson Hall, The Mother Of All Operas R.B. Schlather. Photos by Tobin Del Cuore. By Sharon Smullen“The Mother of Us All” is not your grandma’s opera — unless she's a fan of Gertrude Stein’s words and wit, Virgil Thomson’s modernist music, and Susan B. Anthony’s civil rights and suffrage struggles. By Editor
Arts Director Cameo Wood To Film A Feature Film In Pittsfield By Nichole Dupont Atavism is a throwback or a remnant with traits to a particular time. That is precisely what award-winning director Cameo Wood sees when she visits the main drag of her hometown, Pittsfield, Mass. Wood grew up and came of age during the long, post-industrial, post-General Electric decline By Editor