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Stage AND Screen: Broadcasting Broadway to the Berkshires

Chris O'Dowd and James Franco. Photo by Richard Phibbs. By Nichole Dupont The greatest moments are sadly the most fleeting. And what is more fleeting than the stage? We mourn that we never saw the sweat on Lawrence Olivier’s newly-muscled forearm in his stage debut as the

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Acclaimed Photographer Stephen Shore Celebrates Retrospective

Stephen Shore: Survey (Aperture, 2014) By Robert Burke Warren If you want to know what chutzpah looks like, you should be at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck this Sunday. Acclaimed photographer and longtime Bard faculty member Stephen Shore, celebrating the publication of photo book Stephen Shore: Survey, will talk about his

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From China To Chatham: The Marvelous Mystique Of Mah Jongg

By Lisa Green Not long ago, I was asked 1) if I wanted to join a Hadassah group, and 2) would I like to play Mah Jongg with a group of ladies. Right there, right then, I knew I’d passed some sort of demographic milestone. Wasn’t it just

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How Playwright Winter Miller Got The Story Of 'In Darfur'

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Williamstown Film Festival: The Screenplay's The Thing

Match By Lisa Green Its winning formula has kept it a Berkshire fall tradition, but the Williamstown Film Festival is opening its 16th year with an experiment, Project Screenplay, and if you’ve ever considered writing a screenplay (or just happen to have one on hand), you shouldn’t miss

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In Its 15th Year, FilmColumbia Branches Out — To Hudson

By Jamie Larson It’s movie time in Columbia County and this year the FilmColumbia Festival is celebrating its 15th year by expanding its offerings to a venue in Hudson for the duration, October 22-26. Of course, the festival remains centered where it all began, the Crandell Theatre in Chatham

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To Tell The Truth: Speak Up Storytelling Comes To The Mount

By Amy Krzanik “My friends have always said that I’ve lived one of the most unfortunate lives (including surviving homelessness and an armed robbery), so I’ve got a lot of material for stories," says Matthew Dicks [left] who will be at The Mount in Lenox with his

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Review "An Enemy of the People" at Barrington Stage

Arthur Miller’s 1950 play, An Enemy of the People, which he adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s prophetic 1882 play, is the story of a small Norwegian town called Kirsten Springs whose prosperity and identity are dependent on its salubrious waters, which the town doctor discovers are, in fact, toxic.

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John Waters Brings His Filthy World To Hudson (To Fundraise!)

Photo by Greg Gorman By Robert Burke Warren Ever since filmmaker-performer-author John Waters unleashed his transgressive 1972 cult classic Pink Flamingos on an unsuspecting public, he’s accepted numerous titles: The Pope of Trash, The Baron of Bad Taste, The Prince of Puke. With a reputation like that, attendees to

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Ashton Hawkins & Johnnie Moore: A Collected Life At Auction

Moore and Hawkins. By Jamie Larson Auctions at the laudable Stair Galleries in Hudson often capture specific artistic moments or movements. On display now and up for sale this Saturday is the sum of an artistic life steeped in style, history and love. The personal collection of Ashton Hawkins and

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MASS MoCA Keeps It Fresh With Festivals...Bluegrass and Otherwise

Fans gather at the 2013 FreshGrass festival. Photo: Danielle Poulin By Jeremy D. GoodwinMASS MoCA has been home to all manner of boundary-breaking contemporary art over its 15 years. If you’ve got a hankering to see some upside-down trees suspended in the air, this is your place. So it

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Chef Michael Ballon: 25 Years Of A Chef's Life In The Berkshires

By Lisa Green When  Chef Michael Ballon, a regional pioneer of the farm-to-table movement, first opened the Castle Street Café in Great Barrington 25 years ago, he had to import goat cheese from California. But he soon learned that excellent versions of it were being produced in our area, and

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