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Saturday At Spencertown Academy: Sloane Shelton as Eudora Welty

''There's a saying around here,'' the fiction writer Eudora Welty once said. ''If you hear it, tell it.'' "Around here," was Jackson, Mississippi, where Welty heard everything: the comedy and music in the language, the evasions, self-deceptions, and

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Theatre Review: "The Ladies Man" at Shakespeare & Company

You, gentle theatergoer, play an integral role in the success of a farce. First, you must accept the slim premise based on mistaken identities and little white lies. You need to accept that a bourgeois house could have a room with only one window but five doors that never fall

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Young at Art

Geoffrey Young doesn't expect you to buy anything at his second-floor gallery on Railroad Street in Great Barrington, and he's OK with that. "Nine out of ten people who come into the gallery don't buy art" says the elfin Young with surprising

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Hudson Summer Concert Series Launches

On Saturday night, you have a choice:  You can either kick up your heels and take a picnic to the Hudson Waterfront Park, spread a blanket on the ground, and, even as you nibble cold chicken and sip vinho verde, experience bands like Bunnybrains, Family of Love, Franklin Mint, Hexual

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Theater Review: "I Am My Own Wife"

Julianne Boyd, the artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, is nothing if not audacious. For her first show of the season, she chose a play that sounds like a hard sell for a bourgeois Berkshires audience: I Am My Own Wife (a hit on Broadway in 2003), which is the

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Theatre Review: BTF's "The Caretaker"

Netflix has made it easy for anyone to be an autodidact when it comes to the history of cinema—you just order up movies from the Classics category, and they arrive in your mailbox in whatever sequence you choose for your syllabus. But you can't design your own

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Barrington Stage Company Finds Itself A Second Home

Barrington Stage Company, which has a beautifully renovated 520-seat theater (with great leg room) in downtown Pittsfield, has finally found a semi-permanent home for its Stage II productions. BSC has signed a five year-lease for the VFW Hall on Linden Street and invested $20,000 to turn it into what

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Preview: The 3rd Annual Berkshire International Film Festival

If you play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" with Kelley Vickery, it's pretty certain she will win. As the founder and director of the 3rd annual Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF), she's watched almost every one of the actor's 60 films to

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The Maestro of Bard College

"At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel," Leon Botstein once said.  Leon Botstein has spent the past 33 proving that he's the exception to the rule. As the president of Bard College since 1975, he

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Books: The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Women of a certain age will recall the famous "click" moment, identified and immortalized in 1971 by Jane O'Reilly in the preview issue of Ms. magazine--that nano-second in which a woman becomes a feminist, invariably as a reaction to a stinging sexist insult.  But perhaps less

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Bunny and Me

It's rare that the author of a coffee table book on interior design is invited to give readings at public libraries, so it seems noteworthy that Bunny Williams had two readings scheduled at Litchfield County libraries this month.  (If you missed her appearance at the Scoville Memorial Library

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Revisiting Things Fall Apart: A Fiftieth-Year Retrospective

In 1958 Chinua Achebe, a young African broadcast journalist, published his first novel, Things Fall Apart, a tender portrait of a "strong man" in an Ibo village in Nigeria whose orderly world irreparably unravels when Christian missionaries arrive.  Since its publication, Achebe's novel has sold over

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