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Film Festivals: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

So you missed your chance. But why waste tears on regret? Sure, opening night at the Williamstown Film Festival and the ever-popular Saturday Night Sneak at the FilmColumbia Festival are both (predictably, at this late date) SOLD OUT. But there is still plenty of powerful hanky action to be

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Singing Change Along: The Old Mezzo Debuts at WAM Theatre

WAM co-founder Kristen van Ginhoven and playwright Susan Dworkin What are the politics of singing—and what are the costs? These questions are at the heart of Women’s Action Movement (WAM) Theatre’s world premiere of The Old Mezzo, which runs from October 12-28. The Old Mezzo

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SculptureNow: Now!

"Stalking Cheetah" by Wendy Klemperer When people think of public art in small towns, they may conjure up images of statuesque bronzes to martyred saints such as the beautiful 1896 bronze of Saint Winifred by George E, Bissel, looking at the moment rather lonely (if not downright mopey)

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Verlyn Klinkenborg Signing and Giveaway

Verlyn Klinkenborg, an award-winning American non-fiction author who lives in the RI region, has been writing literary meditations about the joys, rewards, and tribulations of farm life for years now, most notably as a columnist for The New York Times, where he serves on the editorial board, and

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The Clark Unearths Rare Artifacts and Sterling Clark's Adventures in China

Sandstone sarcophagus, Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE), tomb of Song Shaozu,  dated 477 CE, Shanxi Museum, Taiyuan. In 2000 in Shanxi Province, a nine-ton stone sarcophagus dating back to China's Northern Wei dynasty (386-535 CE) was unearthed. Ironically, the “mini house,” which was once displayed

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Theater Review: John Douglas Thompson Soars in Satchmo at the Waldorf

Shakespeare & Company’s final new production of the summer season is Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout'sSatchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play set in 1971 in the dressing room of the jazz great Louis Armstrong, after what would turn out to be his last

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Interview with John Kelly, author of The Graves Are Walking, on the Irish Famine

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously remarked, “What’s the point of being Irish if the world doesn’t break your heart?” Central to that tragic view of life was the Irish potato famine of the 1840s that left more than a million people

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The British Are Ailing — Existentially!

Celia Schaefer, Timothy Deenihan, and Danielle SkraastadTomorrow in the Battle, at Stageworks/Hudson, is an excellent and challenging work about three British professionals: Jennifer, a sexy female financier about to get swallowed up  by the collapse of the banking industry;  Anna, a defense minister about to lie to Parliament about

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A Talk with Peter Wheelwright, Architect and Author of As It Is On Earth

Peter Wheelwright, a former dean (now associate professor) in the School of Architecture at Parsons The New School for Design, has just published his first novel, As It Is On Earth. Wheelwright grew up in Lenox, MA., and he and his wife, the photographer Eliza Hicks, have a house in

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Compagnie Käfig Thrills at Jacob's Pillow

Photos by Christopher Duggan, courtesy of Jacob's Pillow What do you get when you cross a choreographer from Lyon trained in the circus and martial arts and experienced in hip hop with a group of street dancers who arose from the favelas of Rio De Janeiro? If the

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Reviews: Comic Catharsis Across the Eras

Carolyn Michelle Smith, Tina Benko, and Kathy Searle in WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! at Williamstown Theatre Festival There was a time when I fully subscribed to the notion, as Philip Barry often put forth in his lovely plays The Philadelphia Story and Holiday, that the rich should be looked upon with the same

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Trey McIntyre Project: Power and Grace

Photos courtesy of Jacob's Pillow In 2008, after 18 years of making dances for ballet companies across the globe, Trey McIntyre formed his own company, which debuted at Jacob’s Pillow to instant acclaim. His reputation has grown over the years, and the Trey McIntyre Project filled the

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