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A Month in the Country at Williamstown

Kate Kearney-Patch, Jessica Collins, and Elisabeth Waterston It isn’t very often that the translators of a play receive the kind of star billing that Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky get for their work on the  Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Ivan Turgenev’s 1850 play,  A Month in

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Tempest with a Twist at Shakespeare & Co.

Photos by Kevin Sprague What's in an "A"?  In Shakespeare & Company's rich and nimble production of The Tempest, it's the difference between Prospero—the exiled Duke, loving father, and generally embittered sorcerer at the center of the story—and Prospera, that

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Jonah Bokaer: In-Between Days

Photos by Liza Voll, courtesy of Jacob's Pillow The dancer/choreographer Jonah Bokaer seems to be fascinated with the spaces and states that fall in between – the shades of gray (though not so well defined as that) between black and white. Thus one of the most compelling moments

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Review: "Allergist's Wife" at Shakespeare & Company

The actress Annette Miller has a history of playing formidable women on the stages at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. We've seen her as the prime minister of Israel in Golda's Balcony, the fashion legend Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop, and as the outspoken Watergate wife

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Review: The Elephant Man at Williamstown

Bradley Cooper and Alessandro Nivola in"The Elephant Man." Any theatrical production of The Elephant Man, the Bernard Pomerance play about the hideously deformed neurofibromatosis-type-I-sufferer John (Joseph) Merrick, has a lot of memories to live up to, particularly the excellent 1980 film version starring John

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Hudson and Club Helsinki Hit High Notes

It isn't any wonder that great musicians are drawn to Hudson, New York – a beautifully preserved yet still very real, gritty, and up-and-coming town of 7,000 – despite the absence of a music college or well established institution like Tanglewood. Hudson's burgeoning music scene

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Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Shines in Story/Time

In 2010, Bill T. Jones was honored with the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. This week, in the Ted Shawn Theatre, audiences saw indisputable evidence of why this award was bestowed upon him. Story/Time, a multimedia, full-evening work, is a 70-minute tour de force, showing Jones at

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Review: "All My Sons" at Barrington Stage

Barrington Stage Company founder Julianne Boyd always shines when she directs plays that engage your emotions and your intellect—the type of theater that incites a craving for a stiff drink and a serious conversation after the final curtain. With her carefully calibrated production of Arthur Miller's All

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Jessica Lang Dance: Skirting the Issue

Jessica Lang, formerly a dancer with Twyla Tharp, made her full company debut this week at Jacob’s Pillow with an ambitious program of five dances – two solos and a duet, bookended by two ensemble works. What came through in the program, especially in this Pillow season during which most

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Books: Sandisfield Then and Now

Anyone who lives in Sandisfield, the bucolic village at the southern tip of Berkshire County that lays claim to the distinction of being the county’s largest and most sparsely populated town, has likely heard from Ron Bernard. For the past two-and-a-half years, Bernard has been interviewing

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Dance: Moving Still, An Interview With Paul Taylor

Photos of dances by Paul B. Goodeby Scott Baldinger“I like to move.” This was the only thing the now-legendary dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor could think of saying, during an audition for a place at the Juilliard School more than 60 years ago, upon having been asked why

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Reviews: The Importance of Earnestness on Stage at WTF and Powerhouse Theater

Jennifer Westfeldt and Dominic Fumasa watching Greg Kinnear. The Power of Duff The first thing that came to mind after having read advance word about The Power of Duff, a new play by Stephen Belber (at Vassar's Powerhouse Theatre) about a local news anchor who “has a spiritual

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