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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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The Clark Unveils Its Latest Piece Of Art — Its Own Campus

By Jeremy D. Goodwin Have you been to The Clark lately? Unless you work there, the chances are the answer is “no." It’s been closed since March, and the heart of its famed collection of French Impressionist paintings — including those luscious Renoirs everyone loves to stop by and

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'The Race Underground' Surfaces At Ventfort Hall

Doug Most, a deputy managing editor at The Boston Globe, is the author of The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Build America’s First Subway, published in February by St. Martin’s Press. Named one of the “18 Books to Read in 2014" by

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Bookmark This: No Muss, No Fuss Concerts In The Parks

By Rachel Louchen There's the Big One — Tanglewood — looming large over our summer afternoons and evenings of music. But there are also dozens of outdoor concerts taking place throughout our region this summer, with many cities and towns offering a wide variety of musical genres. It might be

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Tanglewood Adds To Its Lineup And Music Is Only Part Of It

By Lisa Green And the countdown begins: the first official event on the Tanglewood grounds under BSO auspices happens in just a week, marking the definitive start of the season, and bringing with it this year a host of new options, musical and otherwise. The 2014 season offers more events

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Review: "Kiss Me, Kate" at Barrington Stage Company

By Dan Shaw Over the past few years, Barrington Stage Company (BSC) has set a high bar for its season-opening musical with indelible productions of Carousel, Sweeney Todd, Guys & Dolls and Fiddler on the Roof. Last year’s incendiary staging of On the Town — which New York Times critic

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'Arrowhead: A Musical ' Is For — And By — The Millennials

By Lisa Green Most college kids, home for the summer, get a job, hang out with their high school buddies, take a road trip. Not Jackson Teeley. No, the 2012 Monument Mountain High School graduate produces a musical he wrote in, oh, about four months. Along with his good friend,

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Barrington Stage Opener Takes Audiences To 'The Other Place'

By Jeremy D. Goodwin In Hamlet, when the Danish prince is on full tilt, having just stashed the body of the freshly murdered Polonius behind some stairs, the king furiously demands to know where his (late) advisor is. “In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not

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Kristin Wold Takes Center Stage In The Story Of The Bard's Bed

By Jeremy D. Goodwin Among other things, Kristin Wold has spent the past two-and-a-half decades playing and teaching all things Shakespeare. But with the exception of a cluster of iconic female leads— like Rosalind in As You Like It and Viola in Twelfth Night—the Bard was famously stingy when

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