In the next week we can make paper out of old jeans, or see a potter lift the top off a raku kiln while the bowls inside are glowing like molten glass … Artsweek Berkshires is coming back.
Read articleWilliamstown Theatre Festival navigates a summer of changes
Williamstown Theatre Festival is navigating a summer of substantial change, and interns and staff share their view behind the scenes as the theater works to transform its own culture.
Read articleABCD — glimpsing the wires of broken school systems
What are the ethics of cheating in school? Harder: what about the ethics of cheating for the sake of a school which is being threatened by closure?
Read articleOnce — Finding the courage to act #this weekend
The actors are holding an Irish music jam — E.J. Zimmerman is singing Red-haired Mary, buoyant with the syncopated swing of the reel …
Read articleHere be dragons … and fireflies and courage #this weekend
As Ben and Scarlet and I walk out from the opening night of ABCD at Barrington Stage, we’re thinking of the choices the characters have to face, and their strength …
Read articleHow does Iran see Andy Warhol?
The young man at the window turns to the American, the older man on a half-official visit, and says ‘did you learn anything about my country before you came here?’ And the question echoes through the play.
Read articleBright Half Life weaves a love story through time
We’re on a ferris wheel in 1986, and it’s dusk, and two women are sitting close together. They’re holding hands and talking over the bolts rattling in the wind … and they’re in a long and deep relationship.
Read articleMemorial Day brings Solid Sound and fluid color
The world is warming up this week, in some ways. Summer seasons are opening, and the Solid Sound festival is coming to Mass MoCA …
Read articleExploring Chatham N.Y. in a thunderstorm
There’s something mysterious and unexpected about walking into a greenhouse in a thunderstorm. … I came through a door in Chatham Berry Farm and felt as though I’d walked into another universe.
Read articleFootloose challenges a small town to grow
He’s the minister in a midwestern town where dancing is illegal, and his daughter is becoming friends with the new kid who wants to change the law. Now his wife is looking him in the eye, trying to call out the man she used to recognize.
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