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The Berkshire Fringe Takes Center Stage

On Monday at the Daniel Arts Center of Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, the Berkshire Fringe kicked off its fourth season with "Eating It," a fundraising party featuring local foods and a performance honoring the tomato that concluded with the serving of a

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Dog Day Afternoon in Hudson

Despite the sizzling heat, tous les chiens of Hudson and beyond, their proud and hopeful owners in tow, paraded down Warren Street on Saturday before gathering at the Basilica for the Walking the Dog Theater benefit dog show.  A panel of dogly-wize children analyzed each canine's merits before

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Spencertown Academy Garden Party

On Friday night, friends and supporters of the Spencertown Academy gathered in the garden of Liz Diggs and Emily McCully to celebrate the next day's Hidden Gardens Tour.  As always, the Academy's in-house catering team, Let's Eat, aka 4 Guys in Aprons, kept everyone&

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Garden Gates Exhibit Opens at the Norman Rockwell Museum

Besides having an incredible collection of iconic paintings, the Norman Rockwell Museum has an incomparable park-like setting. On Thursday July 10, the museum had a fund-raising garden party to celebrate the installation of two-dozen fantastical garden gates designed by artists for "In Full Bloom," which is spread across

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Gala Prokofiev Premiere at Bard

The family of Sergey Prokofiev traveled to Annandale-on-Hudson to witness the moving world premiere on Friday night at Bard's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts of the composer's Romeo & Juliet, for the first time performed in public as written, with a new accompanying ballet, choreographed

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James Taylor Fans Flock To Tanglewood Despite the Rain

It's common knowledge that football fans will tailgate in all sorts of weather and put up with almost any type of precipitation to see their heroes play, but who knew that folk-rock fans were just as crazy? It turns out James Taylor loyalists are hearty folks, and thousands

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Millay Colony Residents and Supporters Kick Back

Each year, the Millay Colony (not to be confused with its sister organization, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society), offers residencies to 48 accomplished artists, composers, and writers, six per one-month session, at the property in the Austerlitz hills that, according to the wishes of the poet, who lived there

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Shakespeare & Company Celebrates Its Good Fortune

Last year at its annual gala, Shakespeare & Company announced that it had reached its $5 million goal for its capital campaign and was now raising the ante to $7.5 million to complete the renovation of an existing building on its campus which is now the Production and Performing

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Berkshire Theatre Festival's 80th Birthday Party

In the summer of 1928, during its inaugural season, the Berkshire Theatre Festival (then called the Berkshire Playhouse) staged George Bernard Shaw's Candida, which BTF has revived this summer. As part of the company's 80th birthday celebration, there was cake, petit fours and native strawberries served

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Barrington Stage Company's G-A-L-A in a School Gym

Barrington Stage Company had secured school buses to take theatergoers who had just watched The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which is set in a school gym, to the gym at St. Joseph Central High School a few blocks away for its annual dinner dance. But most of the

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Dancing Up (And In) A Storm at the Jacob's Pillow Gala

As the thunder rumbled and raindrops fell, some 500 Jacob's Pillow supporters crossed a soggy lawn from the Ted Shawn Theatre into an enormous tent with pink lights for a high-spirited dinner-dance that kicked off the festival's season. The star of the evening seemed to be

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Art Opening Plus at Stonover Farm

Art insiders, the inn crowd, and even the outsider art in-crowd (you following this?) gathered on Saturday night at the fabulous barn at Stonover Farm for an opening of paintings by Curtis Ripley, pottery by Luna Garcia, and still-life photography by Dede Reed, among others.  While gallerist Suky Werman, orchestrated

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