Artist and curator Wendy Red Star, Mass MoCA and MCLA will host a virtual roundtable exploring the ways museums can re-imagine care for Indigenous objects.
Read articleMy name is Gaia DeNisi and I’m a recent graduate of Williams College—Class of 2020—and a freelance writer for By the Way Berkshires. I grew up nestled in the coastal redwoods of Northern California but for the last four years the Berkshires have been my home. Having grown up in a small, rural town, I recognized how lucky I was to spend my college years in this unique, tight-knit community, brimming with a thriving arts culture and surrounded by natural beauty.
Williamstown Theatre Festival premieres ‘The Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club’
In the world premiere of a new audio play, an international group of transgender women band together at a hotel in Thailand as they prepare for gender confirmation surgery.
Read articleListening to the darkness — WTF reimagines Streetcar Named Desire
Ariel Shafir and Audra McDonald explore the sounds of New Orleans and the darker sides of the human psyche in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s audible production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Read article‘The Race 2020’- MCLA theater reflects on presidential power
MCLA presents ‘The Race 2020’ — an interactive show by Sojourn Theater that engages audienes in discussing the 2020 presidential election.
Read articleA Rhythm of Resilience—Maxine Lyle brings Step Show to Williams
Maxine Lyle’s Step Show musical explores the history and meaning behind Step dance as a source of connection, community, and resilience.
Read articleJoy Harjo and Layli Long Soldier share loss and strength in poetry
Surrounded by the crumbling world, women begin to sing. The world as they’ve known it has ended, and yet there is movement, and growth, and the promise of new life.
Read articleDon’t Touch the Art — performance moves from pain to healing
Raw, and difficult, and reaching for joy — somewhere trauma is etched in paint as a community breaths towards wholeness, and art offers a space for holding and healing …
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