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Berkshires as Backdrop: Why Joshua Henkin Set "The World Without You" in Lenox

Whether or not you think of the Berkshires as New York City's sixth borough as some wags do, you have no doubt sat next to a family like the fictional Frankels on the lawn at Tanglewood or stood on line with them at Guido's. In Joshua

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Berkshire Fringe Founders Take the Plunge

If you want to produce and perform your own plays, the best advice might be: don’t start a theater festival. It may sound counterintuitive, but that’s the lesson learned by the three young founding artistic directors  of Berkshire Fringe: Peter Wise, 32; Sara Katzoff, 31; and Timothy Ryan

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The Imaginary Invalid at SummerScape: Is There a Doctor in the House?

Appropriately bilious, dyspectic, splenetic, and cast and staged with almost vertiginous comic invention, The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade Imaginaire), adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt as part of Bard's SummerScape Festival at the Fisher Center, may not be “just what the doctor ordered.”  This production, and the play

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Tero Saarinen's Borrowed Light: A Luminous Evening of Dance at Jacob's Pillow

What better test of a dance that has blown you away than to see it again a few years later and find out if it still packs the same power? Happily, the lasting impression left by Tero Saarinen’s luminous work Borrowed Light, first performed at the Pillow in 2006,

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Thirty Year Plan: Share Your Thoughts on Saving the World and Win Orion's New Book

As a way of marking its 30th anniversary, Orion magazine asked 30 writers and environmental leaders to consider what we need to build a better future on our planet. Their answers comprise a new book, Thirty Year Plan, which Orion launched on Sunday, July 8, at Bascom Lodge, atop Mt.

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"A Chorus Line" Is Alive and Kicking at Berkshire Theatre Group's Revival

It’s always reassuring to see a completely bare backstage wall in any production of A Chorus Line. Basically, if you can’t get the nothingness right and demonstrate that you’re not hiding anything (with curtains, say, or  a completely darkened stage), or if you gussy it up with

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Vertigo Dance Company and LeeSaar The Company: Two Israeli Troupes at the Pillow

There’s drama in Vertigo Dance Company’s world premiere, Mana, which runs at Jacob’s Pillow’s Ted Shawn Theatre through Sunday, July 8, but the story remains out of reach. There are men in long, flowing, dark-colored robes, and women who begin the evening-length dance full draped in

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Reviews: Three Days of Theater Across the Rural Intelligence Universe

Amy Spanger, Tyne Daly, and Marylouise Burke in David Hyde Pierce's version of "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Williamstown Theatre Festival.The Importance of Being Earnest may be the most perfect comedy written in the English language, so it can withstand some directorial tinkering. In

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Dance Review - Morphoses at Jacob's Pillow: Whose Dream Is It, Anyway?

Most who entered the Ted Shawn Theatre this week to see the group Morphoses in the world premiere of WITHIN (Labyrinth Within) probably realized that the second half of the evening’s program would be Pontus Lidberg’s 2010 film, called Labyrinth Within. Lidberg also choreographed and designed the “live”

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The Litchfield Hills Film Festival Finds a New Home, and a New Name

When Frank and Patrice Galterio launched the Kent Film Festival in 2006, they didn’t even know how to run a projector. The couple was more than a little surprised, and relieved, when upwards of 400 people showed up for the Festival’s maiden run of 45 films over two

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Kidd Pivot Founder Crystal Pite, 2011 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award Recipient, Turns Heads

Note: A version of this interview was posted on July 5, 2011. It has been slightly updated to run in advance of Kidd Pivot's 2012 engagement at Jacob's Pillow. The Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award is no mere honor. In addition to the prestige of being

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Mimulus and Circa Open Jacob's Pillow: Give 'em Enough Rope

The Jacob’s Pillow 80th anniversary dance festival opened with two spectacular performances by Mimulus Dance Company, from Brazil in the Ted Shawn Theatre, and  Circa, from Australia, in the Doris Duke Theatre. The two troupes share more than just their home in earth’s southern hemisphere. Both companies also

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