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How Do You Follow Up 7 Emmys? A Quilt Show, Of Course.

By Lisa Green If you look closely — and it helps if you are well versed in the wardrobe of Sesame Street characters — you might find pieces of Miss Piggy’s elegant cocktail dresses in the patchwork of Stephen Rotondaro’s quilts. Rotondaro, who was a costume designer with The Muppets

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The Meaning Of Movement: Choreographer Paula Josa-Jones

By Amy Krzanik You don’t need to be a “horse person” to read this article. You don’t have to have a background in dance, either. Although Paula Josa-Jones has had years of practice as both a rider and a choreographer, the only thing she asks you to

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Live In The Landscape: "Performing Olana"

By Amy Krzanik Take two professional theater directors, add one award-winning playwright, one Hudson River School painter’s visually jaw-dropping home and a person who’s keen to share it with others, and what do you get? A unique, immersive event, but one that can only be experienced

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Review: A Welcome Revival Of "Company" At Barrington Stage

By Dan Shaw As I sat spellbound at Barrington Stage Company’s sassy production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical “Company,” a kaleidoscope of vintage pop-culture images from that year shimmered in my brain. I flashbacked to television shows (“Laugh-In” and “Love American Style”), movies (“Diary of a

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Joy Brown's Roly Poly Figures Go From Kent To Broadway

One Holding Small One at 96th Street. Photo by Katharine Manning. By CB Wismar When you look into the faces of Joy Brown’s larger-than-life, thousand-pound-plus figures, they look back. The eyes are open and alert. The faces are not nervous or self-conscious. “There is

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Tina Packer Completes The Bard's Oeuvre, But She's Not Done Yet

Packer in "Antony and Cleopatra" at Shakespeare & Co. Photo: Kevin Sprague. By Jeremy D. Goodwin When Tina Packer first led a troupe of actors up to the Berkshires from New York in 1978 and took residence in Edith Wharton’s then-neglected home, The Mount, the group

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Live On The Lawn: Outdoor Concerts In The RI Region

By Amy Krzanik This list, by no means exhaustive, offers a starting point for you to explore some of our region’s many outdoor music events, where you don’t need to have RSVPed to drop in on the scene. Some venues offer food and drink for purchase, and some

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Filmmaker Joan Kron, 89, Is The Freshest Face At BIFF

By Dan Shaw It’s befitting that the octogenarian producer and director of the plastic-surgery documentary "Take My Nose . . . Please!" doesn’t look her age. “Do you think I’d have gotten funding for this film and be taken seriously on the film festival circuit if I

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The RuraList: The Big Six At Building 6

By Nichole DupontMASS MoCA, the unofficial Louvre of the Northeast, is about to unveil its newly renovated Building 6 on Sunday, May 28. The 130,000 square feet of space will be the new home of changing exhibitions, long-term installations, and so much natural light that it can alter

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Food, Farming And Sex: Alice Clayton's Hudson Valley Series

By Andrea Pyros Inspiration comes at the oddest of moments. For best-selling romance novelist Alice Clayton, the idea for her sexy, saucy, food-obsessed Hudson Valley-based trilogy — Nuts, Cream of the Crop and Buns — came to her while she was waiting in line to buy cucumbers at her

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The 12th Annual BIFF Reveals Karen Allen's Filmmaking Chops

By CB Wismar The 12th Annual Berkshire International Film Festival – affectionately known as “BIFF” opens with its much-anticipated gala on Thursday, June 1 in Great Barrington. The schedule of films, as always, is eclectic. Fresh features that capture the essence of independent film making on a global scale ("

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Dani Shapiro's 'Hourglass' Explores A Marriage Over Time

In her new memoir, Hourglass (Knopf), Dani Shapiro of Litchfield County excavates and celebrates her marriage of nearly 20 years to screenwriter/director Michael Maren. In her previous critically acclaimed memoirs—Slow Motion and Devotion —Shapiro has put her personal history under the microscope to come to terms with her

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