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"Lombardi" Kicks Off at the Mahaiwe

July 22 - 28 Actor Dan Lauria will portray the Green Bay Packers coach on stage.Millerton resident and New York Times best-selling author Peter Richmond, whose new book, Badasses:The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders  (Harper Collins) will be published this

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Review: Barak Marshall at Jacob's Pillow

Photograph by Gadi Dagon A prominent presence looms throughout Barak Marshall’s hour-long dance-theater piece, MONGER, but never appears on stage. It’s the mistress of the characters we first see huddled in shabby black overcoats in the darkness, who cluster together in terror as her high heels click across

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Will "Pool Boy" Be the Summer's Splash Hit for Barrington Stage Company?

Poolside in Pittsfield: Reba Evenchik and Nikos Tsakalakos. There are two swimming pools that played a crucial role in the genesis of Pool Boy, Nikos Tsakalakos's musical that is having its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company's Stage 2 (July 13 - August 8). One is

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Duane Hampton, author of 'Mark Hampton: An American Decorator' at Rural Residence

July 10 @ 6 - 8 p.m. The interior designer Mark Hampton (1940 - 1998) was almost as highly regarded for his writing (a column in House & Garden) and painting (watercolors, one of which is in the collection of London's V & A) as he was for

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Review: Camille A. Brown and Dancers at Jacob's Pillow

Camille A. Brown and Juel D. Lane in Been There, Done That; Christopher Duggan photoCamille Brown is a young dancer/choreographer taking the dance world by storm. As a sophomore at the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (New York City’s “Fame” school) she earned

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Review: A Fab "Forum" at Williamstown

Now through July 11 "Something familiar, something peculiar" are the opening lyrics of Stephen Sondheim's 1962 musical comedy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but there's probably never been a production this unexpectedly and delightfully peculiar.  I was clueless about

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Review: Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal at Jacob's Pillow

Celine Cassone and Nathan Madden in Locked Up Laura (photo: Christopher Duggan)There’s an acute pleasure in seeing beautiful, finely trained dancers not only perform but own complex, unpredictable choreography, and that pleasure is available to audiences at Jacob’s Pillow this weekend as Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal

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"At Home/Not at Home" at the Hessel Museum at Bard College

June 26 - December 19 Photo by Letitia Smith While everybody knows that Bard College has a world-class theater designed by the architect Frank Gehry—the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts—few seem to know about Bard's Hessel Museum and Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS)

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Brandt Bolding's "Farm" Celebrates Agriculture at Red Devon Restaurant

Now - August 31 Brandt Bolding, a photographer and documentary filmmaker, spent three years documenting the agricultural life of up-state New York. ”While I recognize their place, I am not seeking to reproduce somewhat standard editorial shots of rural life, or lovely images suitable for coffee table books."  Instead

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"Local" Self Portraits at the Opera House

Now - August 14 Lynn Davis, "Meroë, Sudan, 1998" toned silver gelatin print The words "local artist" can cast a pall over an exhibition, implying, as they usually do, artists whose reach does not exceed their own neighborhood.  But the current show at the Hudson Opera

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The Art Soldier Takes on BP at Ferrin Gallery

Now - July 8 Michael Boroniec, the sculptor we reported about in April  ("Portrait of the Pittsfield Artist As A Young Man"), wasn't scheduled to have another show at the Ferrin Gallery so soon.  But Boroniec's visceral response to the massive oil spill in

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Lauren Ambrose Goes Hog Wild on Father's Day

You probably know that we're big fans of actress Lauren Ambrose's jazz singing with The Leisure Class. Now we're psyched to hear her sing Willie Nelson and Patsy Cline tunes on Sunday, June 20, at Lester Blumenthal's Route 7 Grill in Great

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