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Dan's Diary: A Youthquake at Music Mountain

On Sunday afternoon, two teenage girls with apples-and-cream complexions who looked like they were dressed for their high school prom, opened the 80th season at the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village. Madalyn Parnas, an 18-year-old violinist, and her sister Cicely, a 16-year-

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Dan's Diary: Berkshire Playwrights Lab Champions New Drama

Although the Berkshires' four leading theater companies—Barrington Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare & Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival—all produce new plays along with classics and crowd-pleasers, only the Berkshire Playwrights Lab is devoted exclusively to new work by both established and emerging playwrights. To kick off

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The 4th Annual Berkshire International FIlm Festival Will Be Boffo: May 14 - 17

Kelley Vickery is feeling guilty because she is praying for more rain next weekend. The founder of the Berkshire International Film Festival knows that more people will buy tickets for the 70 films she will be screening from May 14 - 17 in Great Barrington if the sun isn't

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Dan's Diary: Jarvis Rockwell—The Son Also Rises

When I innocently walked into the gallery at 73 Main Street in North Adams on Saturday morning, I was drawn by an enormous, stepped pyramid covered with thousands of plastic action figures and small rubber dolls.  I was captivated and charmed, because this work of art had an anthropological quality

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From Pittsfield to Pougkeepsie: The Evolution of "The Burnt Part Boys"

Four years ago, Julie Boyd and William Finn announced that they would start a Musical Theater Lab in Pittsfield, which would make its home at Barrington Stage Company's Stage 2. They said it would be an incubator for new musicals, and it got off to a brilliant start

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Norman Rockwell Museum Turns Back Time

The Norman Rockwell Museum has turned the clock back to 1960. "It was a very significant moment in Norman Rockwell's life," says Corry Kanzenberg, the musuem's curator/archival collections, who has overseen the reinstallation of Rockwell's studio on the museum's

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Professor Karen Allen Directs "Moonchildren" at Simon's Rock

Karen Allen—the actress who played opposite John Belushi in Animal House, Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark,  and Joanne Woodward and John Malkovich in The Glass Menagerie directed by Paul Newman—has become famous in Great Barrington for her eponymous Railroad Street store that sells Allen'

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Dan's Diary: Is Now A Good Time to Buy Art?

It's sometimes hard to believe gallery owners who tell you now is a great time to buy art, but you should pay attention when two of the world's top collectors say buy.Raymond J. Learsy and Melva Bucksbaum, who spend weekends in Sharon, CT, will be

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Apples & History: a Q & A with Leila Philip

It's not the usual reading and book-signing: Instead of taking place at a bookstore or library, it is being held in a restaurant; instead of a glass of white wine, there will be a complimentary apple tasting, courtesy of Philip Orchards, and guests will have the option

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Elizabeth Cunningham Brings Her Latest "Maeve" to Oblong Books

Fans (and you know who you are) of the Maeve Chronicles, Elizabeth Cunningham's series of novels that combine scholorship, whimsy, and delectable fiction to relate the life, times, and spiritual journey of a Celtic Mary Magdalene, named Maeve, may meet the author and hear her read from her

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"These Days: Elegies for Modern Times" Opening at MASS MoCA

These days I seem to think about How all the changes came about my way And I wonder if I'll see another highway           —Jackson Browne These Days: Elegies for Modern Times, the new exhibit opening on April 4 at MASS MoCA, gets its name from a Jackson Browne

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A Native Son Returns to the 4th Annual Kent Film Festival

Ethan Mechare, an actor, writer and filmmaker who grew up in Falls Village, CT, where his mother is now the First Selectman, is returning home from California for the Kent Film Festival. His documentary, Work Harder (click on the title to see the trailer), which chronicles the lives of Acela

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