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There's Still Room At The Inn

The spirit of the 1960s endured at Lenox's Music Inn. By Jeremy D. Goodwin The goings-on at the late, great Music Inn surely provided lots of good (though perhaps hazy) memories for folks who attended concerts and other events there. David Rothstein, the third in a series of

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BUMP at Basilica Hudson

By Lisa Green Try this, and see what happens: Touch a dinosaur skeleton in the American Museum of Natural History. You might not get arrested, but you’d have security all over you faster than you can say Tyrannosaurus rex. So maybe don’t. But next week, at Basilica Hudson,

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Drummer Bobby Previte Cooks A New Brew In Hudson

Photo: Michael DiDonna By Jeremy D. GoodwinBobby Previte has long been associated with New York’s once-thriving “Downtown" scene, where avant-jazz excursions and other musical experiments used to happen with regularity at venues like the Knitting Factory. Though that spirit lives on in certain pockets, the ever-creeping cost of

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Review: "The Visit" at Williamstown Theatre Festival

By Dan Shaw Without baring her famous legs or a single high-step, Chita Rivera razzle-dazzles us in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s production of Kander & Ebb’s The Visit. As Claire Zachanassian, the richest women in the world who has returned to the small, down-on-its-luck European village where she grew

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In Its 25th Year, Bard Music Festival Focuses on Schubert

By Robert Burke Warren Every summer, the Bard Music Festival invites audiences into the world of a specific composer, presenting musical works alongside lectures about the artist’s life and times, plus panel discussions and Q & A sessions. While many past subjects – Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, et al – might be

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg: Author And Director Shows, But Doesn’t Tell

Michael Lindsay-Hogg photo by Lisa Ticknor. By Robert Ayers Many artists use ambiguity in their work, but the City of Hudson is about to gain a new resident whose whole life story is shot through with intrigue and uncertainty. Michael Lindsay-Hogg (born 1940) is definitely not the son of Orson

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Theater: A Bear And A Rembrandt Walk Into A Room...

Michael Burnet directs two charming one-acts for the inaugural season of Pythagoras Theatre Works. Photo: Jeremy D. Goodwin. By Jeremy D. Goodwin Do we need more theater here in the Rural Intelligence region? When you have access to the sort of talent that the brand-new Pythagoras Theatre Works does, and

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Hear This: 'Beethoven' Mixes Music And Theater At The Mount

Photo: Jacqueline Chambord By Jeremy D. Goodwin Though we may tend to think of it nowadays in terms of visuals, theater is an art form that’s always been very concerned with listening. In Shakespeare’s day, audiences went to “hear" a play, not see one. There’s a

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30 Years In, Powerhouse Theater Still Thrives On Risk Taking

John Patrick Shanley directs Kyra Sedgwick and Annika Boras in "The Danish Widow." (Photos by Buck Lewis.) By Robert Burke Warren Chances are good that at least one great playwright is, at this moment, making last minute adjustments to his/her script for a Powerhouse Theater performance of

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Review: "Falsettos" at Sharon Playhouse

By Dan Shaw William Finn’s 1992 Tony Award-winning musical Falsettos now at Tri Arts Sharon Playhouse (through July 20) begins in 1979 (Act I) and ends in 1981 (Act II). The first act was originally its own musical written before the AIDS crisis, and it tells a quintessential 1970s

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At Shakespeare & Co., A 'Midsummer' And All That Jazz

Briana Maia, Michael F. Toomey and Atalanta Seigel. Photo by Kevin Sprague. By Jeremy D. Goodwin Jazz is a music of possibilities. So too is the music of theater. Even in the midst of a long run, each performance of a given production is meant to rise anew from the

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Q&A With Author Courtney Maum

Author photo by Colin Lane. By Amy Krzanik Berkshire County resident Courtney Maum is a corporate namer, celebrity book reviewer, advice columnist for Tin House and now a first-time author. After showing up on countless “best summer reads" lists (Oprah, People, Glamour and Vogue just for starters) her debut

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