Arts Man Of Stone: Mark Mennin And His Monumental Creations A profile of Litchfield County-based sculptor Mark Mennin. By Editor
Arts Katharine T. Carter Makes The Art Go Around Katharine T. Carter with Hugo T. Poodle. Photo: Michelle Barclay. By Jamie Larson As patrons and appreciators of the fine arts that fill the institutions and galleries across our region, most of us spend little time contemplating how the art got there. The complex mechanisms, bureaucracy and caprice that fill By Editor
Arts At Hudson Hall, The Mother Of All Operas R.B. Schlather. Photos by Tobin Del Cuore. By Sharon Smullen“The Mother of Us All” is not your grandma’s opera — unless she's a fan of Gertrude Stein’s words and wit, Virgil Thomson’s modernist music, and Susan B. Anthony’s civil rights and suffrage struggles. By Editor
Arts Director Cameo Wood To Film A Feature Film In Pittsfield By Nichole Dupont Atavism is a throwback or a remnant with traits to a particular time. That is precisely what award-winning director Cameo Wood sees when she visits the main drag of her hometown, Pittsfield, Mass. Wood grew up and came of age during the long, post-industrial, post- By Editor
Arts Q&A With Francis Greenburger, Entrepreneur In Our Midst By Jamie Larson Francis Greenburger has led an astonishingly successful, self-made, elite life. Last year he condensed a lifetime of accomplishments and struggles into a co-authored biography called “Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur.” On Saturday, Nov. 4, the longtime/part-time Columbia County resident will read By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
Arts 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 By Editor
