Berkshire stages are stirring with life, as WAM welcomes a new artistic director and Williamstown Theatre announces two new leadership roles ... and asks searching questions.
Read articleWhat remarkable plays could then be born?
If a theater community were as diverse and representative as humankind, what work could theater makers create today? Williamstown Theater Festival has opened a conversation …
Read articleBlues music recalls summer plays and family stories
It’s 20 years ago now that Ruben Santiago-Hudson brought Lackawanna Blues to the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He’s gone on to Broadway and the Tonys ... and I remember.
Read articleArt in the Berkshires — Winter 2024
When Raven Chacon composes, he seems to draw the voices of a forest. We haven’t yet had the chance to hear his music in the Berkshires — but we can see him, and artists with him and around him, re-imagining the world.
Read articleWorks on Paper map connections at the Clark
The Clark Art Institute takes a trip through their collection of 6,000 prints, drawings, and photographs, from Impressionist Paris to Saitō Kiyoshi’s Sakurada-Mon Tokyo and beyond.
Read articleBerkshire Candle burns cleanly at both ends
Light glimmers in glass, or in a wooden bowl, warm and moving gently in the air. When Jenna Gable of Lanesborough pours her own for Berkshire Candle Co., the room can fill with a scent of balsam fir or cinnamon.
Read articleBerkshire makers welcome the holidays
Do you know the cool smooth thump of clay when you knead it? The slide of wool around a knitting needle, or silkscreen ink as thick as melted chocolate ... From iron to wood to paint, Berkshire artists and artisans find color and texture in their studios.
Read articleKongero weaves close folk counterpoints
A low rhythm rocks warmly, and voices lap together like the tide coming in. Four women are singing in bell-clear in polyrhythms ... A world-touring Swedish Folk'appella group has touched down in West Stockbridge.
Read articleIf music be the food of love, play on — #berkshireweekend
It’s the season for holiday music. At night, by firelight, people who care about each other are feeling our way through the words with a familiar integrity, like a conversation at home …
Read articleOracle Bones hold family through time
Artist Elizabeth Atterbury links past and present at the Clark Art Institute with sculpture in wood, metal and stone, and abstract prints in bright color.
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