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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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Review: Lucy Guerin Inc at Jacob’s Pillow

Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin keeps her six dancers very busy in her poignant, hour-long piece, Structure and Sadness, which was inspired by the collapse of Melbourne’s Westgate Bridge in 1970, a tragedy that killed 35 workmen. This incident looms over the work from the startling beginning, as what looks

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Brine Garden in Photographs & Watercolors

August 21 - September 18 Gallery on the Green in Pawling, NY will honor the 20th anniversay of The Brine Garden, a remarkable private garden there, with an exhibition of photographs, some done by the garden's creator Duncan Brine, others by Everett H. Scott, the renowned landscape photographer,

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Review: Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.Motion at Jacob’s Pillow

The last of three emerging choreographers given a Pillow Creative Development Residency is on stage this week at Jacob’s Pillow, and from Inventing Pookie Jenkins, the stunning solo he presented at the Pillow gala -- which is also on this week’s program -- it is easy to see

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Thomas O'Brien, Author of "American Modern" at Hudson Home

August 14 @ 5 - 7 p.m. If there had never been an Aero, Thomas O'Brien's seminal home design store in Soho, there never would have been a—well, just look around. The hip-yet-accessible, clean-lined-yet-un-rigid, look of today's dominant interior-design style is the result,

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Amy Bedik's Photographs at Germain

Now - September 7 In her black-and-white photographs, Amy Bedik seeks the eternal in both landscapes and in man-made things, often classical sculptures and architecture. Using a simple plastic camera, a piece of technological ephemera whose time has already passed, she captures images that speak of the durable and the

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Review: Trey McIntyre Project at Jacob's Pillow

Is it Basque week in the Berkshires? In the same week that Shakespeare & Company unveiled The Taster, a world premiere by Joan Ackermann that involves an ancient Basque play, Trey McIntyre Project waltzes in to Jacob’s Pillow with a new dance steeped in Basque culture. (And there may

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Review: Yin Mei at Jacob's Pillow

Choreographer Yin Mei demands a lot from her audience. Namely patience, and the same kind of concentration she and her dancers bring to their performance at Jacob’s Pillow of City of Paper, her multimedia work addressing her personal and cultural history. Yin is a native of Luoyang, China, a

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Millbrook Author Reads from Debut Novel

Saturday, August 7 @ 11 a.m & 5 p.m. Jenny Nelson, who lives in Millbrook, will read from and sign her debut novel, Georgia's Kitchen, the story of Georgia Gray, the head chef at a trendy New York restaurant who travels to Tuscany to open a trattoria.

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