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Summerscape: Back in the USSR

How would you like your politics this morning, sir?  "Prokofiev and his World," a seven-week festival at Bard College, kicks off on July 4th, with the sublime--a fully restored version of the composer's 1935 ballet Romeo & Juliet, as written but never before performed (the political

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Hudson: A Fork and Fine Art Fete

The Columbia County Council on the Arts is at it again.  Not content with long ago having won our hearts and minds, they now appear to be after our stomachs, as well. On Saturday, March 1, they will celebrate their 13th Annual Juried Art Show with a gala opening and

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Red, White & Blacklisted: "Trumbo" Opens at Barrington Stage in Pittsfield

In this highly politicized season, Barrington Stage artistic director Julianne Boyd decided to open her 2008 season on February 14 with Trumbo, a play that explores how the United States government's crackdown on dissent in the McCarthy era affected the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (who, apparently, liked to

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Berkshire Theatre Festival To Get a Facelift

If you've ever gone to the Berkshire Theatre Festival, in Stockbridge, MA, you know that the parking situation can be like a screwball comedy, with student volunteers sending you and your car in circles and sometimes into ditches. Now, as an 80th birthday present to itself, BTF has

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A New View of the Hudson

Until last year, film-producer (forthcoming: "The Duchess" starring Keira Knightly) and screenwriter Carolyn Marks Blackwood had never shown her photographs to anyone. Once she did, a whirlwind ensued. Since then, her work has been shown at Paul Rodger's 9W Gallery in Manhattan in a show, "

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The Librarian's List

Who: Erica Joncyk Where: The David M. Hunt Memorial Library in Falls Village, CT, which opened on Main Street in 1891. Originally built as a private school, it functioned as a combination grammar school and library for many years. It holds a popular sale of slightly tattered new books on

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TriArts Sets Its Season

Winter is audition season for our regional theater companies as they compete to import the best talent for their summer productions. At Tri-Arts in Sharon, CT, which casts Actors Equity performers with Broadway credits alongside inspired amateurs from the community, they are looking for hot guys willing to strip down

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Berkshire Museum's New Market

The Berkshire Museum Shop has come out of hiding.  It has moved from the bowels of the venerable Berkshire Museum and into a prime corner storefront at 31 South Street in Pittsfield. Designed and fabricated by local artists led by Mitch and Seth Nash of Blue Q and Joe Wheaton.

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