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Review: CND2 at Jacob’s Pillow

In his final visual feast before stepping down as artistic director of the Madrid-based CND2 (Compañía Nacional de Danza 2), Nacho Duato has cooked up a tasty three-course meal at Jacob’s Pillow, though there seems to be a bit of confusion in the order of the courses.

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Review: Monica Bill Barnes at Jacob’s Pillow

Photos by Kristi Pitsch Pillow gala attendees uproariously laughed during a preview of new work by Monica Bill Barnes & Company that was co-commissioned by the Pillow and created in part during a Creative Development Residency here. In its engagement at the Pillow this week, the company presents three

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"Lombardi" is a Winner!

Through July 28 at The Mahaiwe Football has not always been big business. Eric Simonson's  new play Lombardi, which is having its pre Broadway run at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, is set in 1965, when the most famous football coach in the land lived in an ordinary

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Review: Bill T. Jones at Jacob’s Pillow

Photos by Paul B. GoodeChoreographers intending to create a dance about something, especially topics like politics or history, can often be soul-crushingly, boringly literal. Bill T. Jones is too smart, experienced, and talented to fall into that trap. So when you learn that his 2008 piece Serenade/The Proposition

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Marine Combat Artist at Norman Rockwell

Thursday, August 5 @ 5:30 p.m. Chief Warrant Officer Michael Fay, one of two official combat artists currently serving in the Marine Corps, will share stories of his experiences in the field through powerful artworks reflecting personal observations of military life in Iraq and Afghanistan. Norman Rockwell MuseumStocbridge, MA

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The Logic of the World and Other Fictions

Friday, July 23 @ 7:30 p.m. Robert Kelly, author of four previous volumes of "unsettling," "exhilerating," and "sparkling" fiction that has have been compared favorably with that of Borges, Nabokov, Calvino, and Coover, will read from and sign his latest collection of short

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Review: "Judgment Day" at Summerscape

Through July 25 at the Fisher Center at Bard College To begin by praising the set, props and sound design of the 1937 drama Judgment Day at Bard Summerscape should not be misinterpreted: This is an extraordinary evening of theatre in every respect, but the awesome stagecraft powerfully serves the

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Review: "Six Degrees" at Williamstown

Through July 25 For anyone who is too young to remember 1980s New York as an era of smug money, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation is a fascinating history lesson. As New York Times theater critic Frank Rich wrote, Six Degrees is "a masterwork that captures

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Review: Pichet Klunchun Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow

Who is Sita? This is the central question of Chui Chai, an hour-long work by Pichet Klunchun Dance Company, which continues its first run in the United States through Sunday at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. An attempt to bridge khon, the highly codified form of traditional Thai court

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Review: Karole Armitage at Jacob’s Pillow

Emily Wagner and William Isaac; photo: Julieta Cervantes It has been said (though the original quipster remains undetermined) that “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” So where does that put choreography about physics? Dancers, of course, are bound by physics; force, motion, biomechanics and gravity apply, though the

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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

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