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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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Farm To Frame Puts Hudson Valley Artists (And Food) On View

By Lisa Green Two years ago, Dorit Straus, an art and insurance advisor, attended a dinner for collectors at Henry Klimowicz'sRE Institute in Millerton. The part-time Hudson Valley resident was taken with the intimate setting and interaction between the artist and guests over a meal composed of Hudson

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In Bette Isacoff’s Memoir 'Star Crossed,' An Unlikely Pair Beats The Odds

By Lisa Green In 1968, when Bette Francesconi met Richard Isacoff, she was a 21-year-old Catholic, a senior in college doing her practice teaching assignment. He was a 17-year-old Jewish student, a senior at the school where she was teaching. Seven weeks later they were engaged. There were, not surprisingly,

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30(ish) Tix Not To Miss

Let it be said — now is the winter of our discontent finally taking a hike, and letting us plan in earnest for the glorious summer. Somehow it doesn't seem right to pick out opening-night outfits for summer theater when you haven't put the snow shovel away

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Author Rachel Urquhart Brings Local History To Life In 'The Visionist'

By Amy Krzanik Photo by Sarah Shatz. Rachel Urquhart, part-time Tyringham resident and frequent contributor to Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and many other well-respected publications, recently published her debut novel, The Visionist, which tells the story of a transformative friendship between two teenaged girls carrying two very different

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Little Failure, Big Success: Gary Shteyngart At Vassar

Photo by Brigitte Lacombe By Robert Burke Warren When bestselling author Gary Shteyngart delivers the Alex Krieger Memorial Lecture at Vassar on  March 27, attendees will get more than a talk; Shteyngart is a performer, an avid YouTuber and Twitter maven. He’ll be reading from his recent memoir, Little

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Carl Sprague's Concept Illustrations Come To Life In 'Grand Budapest Hotel.'

Sprague's concept drawing for the hotel model in The Grand Budapest Hotel By Jeremy D. Goodwin It was a bit chilly to be out dodging paparazzi. Carl Sprague was in Görlitz, Germany last winter, on the set of Wes Anderson’s latest essay of beguilingly affected cinema, when

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Actor Hamish Linklater Comes Home As A Playwright

By Tresca Weinstein Ever since he was a child cast in Shakespeare & Company productions (his mother was a founder of the troupe), actor Hamish Linklater  (best known for his roles in the TV series The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Crazy Ones and The Newsroom) has loved to

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