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"Look @ Us!" A Breath of Fresh Air at the Berkshire Museum

Until now, you had to be a mad dog or masochist to visit the Berkshire Museum in July or August. "It was ghastly here," admits executive director Stuart Chase. But now that the 105- year-old museum on South Street in Pittsfield has finally gotten central air conditioning,

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Artists' Studio Tour to Benefit Sharon Historical Society

Eight accomplished artists who live in the area, including Ellen Griesedieck, Eric Forstmann, Richard Rothschild, Peter Steiner, Don Gummer, James Mayer, Ira Barkoff and Duncan Hannah, will open their studios this weekend to benefit the Sharon Historical Society. The artists will be on hand throughout the weekend to discuss their

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A Star is Born? Finn Wittrock in "Candida" at Berkshire Theatre Festival

Annette Miller was hoping to be proved right. When she heard that native son Finn Wittrock was starring in Candida at Berkshire Theatre Festival, she wanted to see if he had lived up to his potential. "When he was ten years old, he used to run lines with me

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Film and talk: The Rape of Europa

For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. And once they were defeated heroic young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back, mounting a miraculous campaign that would rescue and return millions of art works that had been

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Maggie Mailer's "The Volcano Sitters" Opens at the Ferrin Gallery

As if it were a collection of short stories, Maggie Mailer has given her new show of paintings a title—The Volcano Sitters—that is metaphoric. As the daughter of legendary novelist Norman Mailer, she instinctively infuses her paintings with narrative and invective, and she is happy to explain in

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Spelling Bee's H-O-M-E-C-O-M-I-N-G

William Finn has travelled from Broadway to the Berkshires and back again many times. Now he's here with his Tony Award winning musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which has returned to its birthplace, Barrington Stage Company (where it plays through July 12.)  Finn first musicalized

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Opening: Women on Display

The Storefront Artist Project presents “Women on Display,” an exhibition curated by the art historian Keith Shaw.  All six featured artists are women: Jessica Michelson Berger, Cynthia Consentino, Samantha Dewitt, Susan Graber, Jeanet T. Ingalls, and Rebecca Weinman. The show, which will be on view until June 29, is an

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Saturday At Spencertown Academy: Sloane Shelton as Eudora Welty

''There's a saying around here,'' the fiction writer Eudora Welty once said. ''If you hear it, tell it.'' "Around here," was Jackson, Mississippi, where Welty heard everything: the comedy and music in the language, the evasions, self-deceptions,

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Theatre Review: "The Ladies Man" at Shakespeare & Company

You, gentle theatergoer, play an integral role in the success of a farce. First, you must accept the slim premise based on mistaken identities and little white lies. You need to accept that a bourgeois house could have a room with only one window but five doors that never fall

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Young at Art

Geoffrey Young doesn't expect you to buy anything at his second-floor gallery on Railroad Street in Great Barrington, and he's OK with that. "Nine out of ten people who come into the gallery don't buy art" says the elfin Young with

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Hudson Summer Concert Series Launches

On Saturday night, you have a choice:  You can either kick up your heels and take a picnic to the Hudson Waterfront Park, spread a blanket on the ground, and, even as you nibble cold chicken and sip vinho verde, experience bands like Bunnybrains, Family of Love, Franklin Mint, Hexual

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Theater Review: "I Am My Own Wife"

Julianne Boyd, the artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, is nothing if not audacious. For her first show of the season, she chose a play that sounds like a hard sell for a bourgeois Berkshires audience: I Am My Own Wife (a hit on Broadway in 2003), which is the

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