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Review: "The Crucible" at Barrington Stage

Now through October 24 Barrington Stage artistic director Julianne Boyd has no fear of plays with dark themes and untrustworthy characters (e.g, her productions of Carousel, Sweeney Todd, A Streetcar Named Desire.) And there is no shortage of blood-chilling fear and moral corruption in Arthur Miller's The

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Chris Innvar: Barrington Stage's Go-To Guy

Starring in The Crucible through October 24 It's hard to recall that not-so-long-ago Barrington Stage Company was the underdog theater company of the Berkshires. Before moving to its own home in Pittsfield in 2006, it mounted plays and musicals  in the cinder-block-walled auditorium of the Mt. Everett Regional

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William Kennedy to Read at Bard

Monday, October 4 @ 6:30 p.m. “What James Joyce did for Dublin and Saul Bellow did for Chicago, William Kennedy has done for Albany, New York,” wrote critic James Atlas in Vogue. Kennedy is the author of eight novels, including Legs and Ironweed, which won the Pulitzer Prize and

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Lane Smith Defends Print

Saturday, September 18 @ noon Best-selling children's book author Lane Smith (Madam President and John, Paul, George & Ben) will read from and sign his latest, It's a Book, a defense of print in the digital age targeted at little ones.  Smith, who lives in Litchfield County,

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Spencertown Academy Festival of Books

Friday, September 3 - Monday, September 6 This weekend bookworms and bibliophiles by the thousands will descend upon the tiny hamlet of Spencertown, NY for the Spencertown Academy's Fifth Annual Festival of Books, three days of free programs featuring more than twenty nationally and internationally-known authors, a sale

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Hot Ticket: The Metropolitan Opera on HD, Members First

Three locations in our region now screen the wildly popular Metropolitan Opera performances in High Definition. Now in its fifth year, this Peabody Award-winning series will present a record 12 live transmissions to theaters worldwide this opera season. Tickets go on sale as early as Friday, August 27th, but unless

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Review: "A Delicate Balance" at BTF

Through September 4 Edward Albee's 1967 Pultizer Prize winning A Delicate Balance is a tragedy that masquerades as a drawing room comedy. It is laced with laugh-out-loud moments and it builds through its three acts to reveal devastating truths about the nature of family and friendship. It is

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Review: "The Memory Show" at Barrington Stage Company

Through August 29 The Memory Show is not really a conventional musical, even though the 75 minute show (with book & lyrics by Sara Cooper and music by Zach Redler) is almost entirely sung. It is really a play whose rapid-fire dialogue and soul-searching monologues are set to wonderful music.

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Word X Word Festival in Pittsfield

Saturday, August 21 - Sunday, August 29Can you stand yet another festival? Perhaps a brief description of Word X Word will entice you. Envision this upstart festival—which bills itself as a celebration of words written, spoken, and sung—as a mash-up of the recent Berkshire WordFest at The Mount,

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Review: The Taster at Shakespeare & Company

Now through September 4 It has been too long a while since we've seen a play by Joan Ackermann at Shakespeare & Company, so the current staging of her literate new work, The Taster, at Founder’s Theatre, is particularly welcome. The play is a tale of two

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The Wharton Salon presents Summer at The Mount

August 18 - August 29 Once upon a time, the resplendent lawns, gardens, chambers, and stables of Edith Wharton's guilded-age estate, The Mount, were alive with sprites, faeries, kings, queens, and courtesans created by The Bard, as well as characters drawn from the imagination of the property'

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Review: The Göteborg Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow

Maurice Ravel’s Boléro is surely the Rodney Dangerfield of the classical music world; it gets no respect. So it’s understandable that a quick glance at the program offered by The Göteborg Ballet, 3xBoléro, might elicit a few groans. But when a deeper reading reveals that the troupe’s

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