Arts "Frozen River" Screens in Chatham As usual on the last Sunday of the month, the Chatham Film Club will screen a movie at the Crandell Theater this week. But there's nothing "as usual" about this particular screening. In fact, it’s safe to assume, there has never been a screening closer By Editor
Arts Summer Stock: Staying Alive (Part II) The Mac-Haydn in Chatham is not the only barn in our region where you can see musical theater with high production values, vigor and pluck. TriArts at the Sharon Playhouse stages three musicals every summer with a unique formula that combines first-rate regional and community theater: a couple of professional By Editor
Arts Talking about China in the Berkshires; Simon Winchester at Home Simon Winchester, the Oxford-trained geologist turned bestselling author, became renowned with his inspired much-touted The Professor And the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and almost equally praised for Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883. The latest of this By Editor
Arts What Will Tanglewood Be Like Without James Levine? Tanglewood's quarterback has been sidelined for the season. It was announced on July 8 that James Levine, the musical director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will undergo surgery this week to remove a kidney because of a cyst causing pressure and discomfort. The recuperation period is six weeks By Editor
Arts Whatever Happened to Summer Stock? It's alive and well at the Mac-Haydn Theatre in Chatham, NY. Going to see a show at this 350-seat theater is like entering a time machine. It transports you to the Catskills of Marjorie Morningstar, where bright-eyed Broadway hopefuls would spend the summer at hotels or camps and By Editor
Arts "Look @ Us!" A Breath of Fresh Air at the Berkshire Museum Until now, you had to be a mad dog or masochist to visit the Berkshire Museum in July or August. "It was ghastly here," admits executive director Stuart Chase. But now that the 105- year-old museum on South Street in Pittsfield has finally gotten central air conditioning, it By Editor
Arts Artists' Studio Tour to Benefit Sharon Historical Society Eight accomplished artists who live in the area, including Ellen Griesedieck, Eric Forstmann, Richard Rothschild, Peter Steiner, Don Gummer, James Mayer, Ira Barkoff and Duncan Hannah, will open their studios this weekend to benefit the Sharon Historical Society. The artists will be on hand throughout the weekend to discuss their By Editor
Arts A Star is Born? Finn Wittrock in "Candida" at Berkshire Theatre Festival Annette Miller was hoping to be proved right. When she heard that native son Finn Wittrock was starring in Candida at Berkshire Theatre Festival, she wanted to see if he had lived up to his potential. "When he was ten years old, he used to run lines with me By Editor
Arts Film and talk: The Rape of Europa For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. And once they were defeated heroic young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back, mounting a miraculous campaign that would rescue and return millions of art works that had been By Editor
Arts Maggie Mailer's "The Volcano Sitters" Opens at the Ferrin Gallery As if it were a collection of short stories, Maggie Mailer has given her new show of paintings a title—The Volcano Sitters—that is metaphoric. As the daughter of legendary novelist Norman Mailer, she instinctively infuses her paintings with narrative and invective, and she is happy to explain in By Editor
Arts Spelling Bee's H-O-M-E-C-O-M-I-N-G William Finn has travelled from Broadway to the Berkshires and back again many times. Now he's here with his Tony Award winning musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which has returned to its birthplace, Barrington Stage Company (where it plays through July 12.) Finn first musicalized By Editor
Arts Opening: Women on Display The Storefront Artist Project presents “Women on Display,” an exhibition curated by the art historian Keith Shaw. All six featured artists are women: Jessica Michelson Berger, Cynthia Consentino, Samantha Dewitt, Susan Graber, Jeanet T. Ingalls, and Rebecca Weinman. The show, which will be on view until June 29, is an By Editor
