Arts Williamstown Film Festival Tickets on Sale Suitably enough, the highlight of the first weekend of the 11th Annual Williamstown Film Festival (October 23 - 25; second weekend, October 29 - November 1), will be dinner and a movie on Saturday night. The annual benefit dinner is being held this year at Mezze's new catering By Editor
Arts FilmColumbia Celebrates its 10th Year The four-day movie marathon known as FilmColumbia, which was founded in 1999, comes to the village of Chatham from October 22 - 25. A star-studded lineup of more than 30 international screenings, plus panel discussions, script readings, parties, and more, the festival “has something for everyone,” according to Peter Biskind, By Editor
Arts Dan's Diary: Barrington Stage is the Stepping Stone to Broadway For songwriters who yearn to hear their songs on a Broadway stage someday, you can't get any luckier than knowing Bill Finn, the musical theater guru of Barrington Stage Company. For the fourth year in a row, Finn has put together an evening of Songs By Ridiculously Talented By Editor
Arts "Radio Deluxe" Comes to the Tanglewood Jazz Festival The New York Times cabaret critic Stephen Holden has flipped his lid for John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, who host Radio Deluxe, which will tape at Ozawa Hall on Saturday, September 5 as part of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. "The wittiest, most musically savvy husband-and-wife team in pop-jazz, they By Editor
Arts Dan's Diary: "A Streetcar Named Desire" Is A Great Ride You don't see Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire produced very often because it is almost impossible to cast. (ReadThe New York Times' Ben Brantley on the 2005 New York production with John C. Reilly.) After all these years, it still needs an actor who By Editor
Arts Dan's Diary: WTF Lights A Fire Under "The Torch-Bearers" You might consider The Torch-Bearers at Williamstown Theatre Festival theater-for-theater's sake. The play itself—a 1922 chestnut by George Kelly that has been "adapted" by director Dylan Baker—seems like an excuse for artistic director Nicky Martin to fill the Main Stage with a dozen accomplished By Editor
Arts Dan's Diary: Lightning Strikes Williamstown Theatre Festival What's going on with the stagehands at Williamstown Theatre Festival? At both True West and What Is the Cause of Thunder?, the stagehands, who are dressed like bellhops at chic boutique hotels, take a bow at the curtain call. The sets, lighting and sound for both productions are By Editor
Arts Berkshire Fringe Festival Grows Up Fringe founders Peter Wise, Sara Katzoff & Timothy Ryan Olson The Berkshire Fringe Festival operates in the spirit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which started in Scotland in 1947, when eight theater troupes turned up uninvited at Edinburgh International Fesitval and had to perform on the outskirts of the city. By Editor
Arts Dan's Diary: The Best of All Possible Worlds Every summer, Berkshire Theatre Festival mounts one or two important and historic plays that I have never seen or read, and I am always grateful to BTF for filling in the gaps in my education. Nowadays, as large-cast musicals become prohibitively expensive to produce, we should rejoice whenever they are By Editor
Arts Still Some Tickets Left for Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock" Chatham Premiere There was a time when lots of small towns across America had an old movie palace like the Crandell, a theater in Chatham that was built in 1926 as a venue for vaudeville and the silent picture show. Since 1960, the year Psycho was the big hit, the Crandell has By Editor
Arts Dan's Diary: The Greatest Generation's Favorite Musical? Though I'd argue with Time Magazine's contention that Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel is the greatest musical of the 20th century, Julianne Boyd, the artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, has given Carousel the kind of stunning production that only a great musical deserves. Boyd& By Editor
