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Berkshire WordFest Bows at The Mount

A New Festival in Lenox: July 23 - 25 Once again, words will prevail at The Mount.  For the past thirty years, actors, directors, gardeners and decorators have lovingly put their stamp on Edith Wharton's 1902 estate and gardens in Lenox.  But the literary community is taking it

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Review: "The Whipping Man" Wows

Barrington Stage Company Stage 2 through June 17 Why is this play different than all other plays? Certainly, it's the premise. Have you ever before seen a drama about three Jewish men—two of whom happen to be newly freed slaves—who share a house at the end

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Broadway Bound in the Berkshires

The out-of-town tryout is a tried-and-true Broadway convention, and in the good old days shows played Philadelphia or New Haven before heading to New York City.  This summer, Great Barrington is getting to play that part. The Broadway bound production of Lombardi—a play about the fabled Green Bay Packers

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Michael Perry's "Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg"

Wednesday, June 16 @ 7:30 p.m. From the acclaimed author of Truck: A Love Story comes this humorous, heartfelt memoir. Living in a ramshackle Wisconsin farmhouse, faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and recently informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their

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Books: Millbrook Festival, Storytime for All

Everyone has long known the value of reading aloud to young children.  Now there is mounting evidence—the growing popularity of books on CD and entertainments such as staged play readings and, of course, NPR's beloved "Selected Shorts"—that adults want and perhaps need to be

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"The Whipping Man" at Barrington Stage

May 26 - June 13 Since its 2006 world premiere at Luna Stage in Montclair, NJ, The Whipping Man, by young playwright Matthew Lopez, has been widely produced and well received. It's the story of a seriously wounded Jewish Confederate officer who returns from the Civil War to

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Poetry for All!

If you're in Millerton, NY, Salisbury, CT, or Great Barrington, MA, on Thursday, April 29, Andrew Belcher (left) or Athena Fliakos may approach you out of the blue. Their intense passion may lead you to believe they are proselytizing or politicking, but all they're hoping to

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'Material World: Sculpture to Environment' Opens at MASS MoCA

Opening Reception: April 24 @ 5:30 p.m. "Orly Genger Masspeak," (2007) Nylon climbing rope with latex paint. Courtesy Larissa Goldston Gallery (Photo:Tom Powel Imaging) For Material World: Sculpture to Environment, curator Susan Cross invited seven artists to create site specific installations that relate to MASS MoCA&

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The Annual Kent Film Festival April 22 - 25

The Kent Film Festival doesn't start officially until Thursday, April 22, so the screening on April 21 of Company Retreat, written and directed by Campbell Scott (left), is being called a "private screening" which is a fundraiser for the five-year-old, not-for-profit festival. "Campbell's

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Terenchin Gallery Moves to Hudson

For those who have trouble keeping up with all that is happening on this side of the river, it comes as great news that Terenchin Gallery in Catskill, where Hudson artists Frank Faulkner, Jim Holl and Laetitia Hussain have had solo shows, has moved to Hudson.  The current show there,

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Summer's Hottest Ticket? Wilco's Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA

Chicago-based Wilco is making a habit of touring our region in summer. Last year, the literate, prolific, politically progressive band played Dutchess Stadium; the previous summer Wilco made an improbable and magnificent appearance at Tanglewood. The area has made an indelible impression on the band, who will be back again

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A Farm Film Feast: Film, Food and Discussion

The crusade to eat locally hits the big screen with such enticingly titled films as, Dirt! The Movie, Mad City Chickens, and What's On Your Plate?  This week and through the weekend, more than a dozen films about food will be screening at Images Theater in Williamstown, MA,

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