Two young men are talking in a London apartment at dusk. They feel familiar as they banter, inventing memes short enough for Instagram stories. It’s 1895, and The Importance of Being Earnest is open at Berkshire Theatre Group.
Read articleStone, bronze and glass are Taking Flight in the garden
Glass tiles gleam like stone under water. They reflect light in wide eyes. Two owls look out of a mosaic in a stucco wall that seems to ease into the land around it, like a new outcrop from a vanished temple …
Read articleMindy Lam infuses spring into wearable art
The flowers tangle together like meadow grass in the morning, glinting with dew, and a small bright frog is climbing up the stems. Jewelry artist and fashion designer Mindy Lam opens the summer at Berkshire Botanical Garden.
Read articleVivid color is coming back to Naumkeag (May 5 Newsletter)
The tulips are glowing around the greenhouse at the foot of the hill, crimson red and flame orange and lemon. ... I’ve caught an hour of sunlight on the morning I slipped down to Stockbridge for the daffodil festival, and it feels like pure radiant luck.
Read articleFlights of Fancy bring sparkling color to the garden
Growing up on a farm in Hong Kong, Mindy Lam saw the bright flashing colors of birds, and moths as large as her two hands. She would wade in the river, looking for shrimp and minnows and dragonflies. So it means a great deal to her now, as an internationally known jewelry artist living near Washington D.C., to bring her creations to the Berkshire Botanical Garden.
Read articleParisian pastry adapts to the country at the Lost Lamb Bakery
Pumpkin tarts and spicy chocolate mousse … clam chowder and crusty baguette … where does New England meet a French pâtissière? In Stockbridge, Claire Raposo runs the Lost Lamb bakery and cafe.
Read articleBAC lifts artists in virtual holiday market
Blue marbled cups and sunset in canyon country, beads of polished wood … Berkshire Art Center is creating a virtual holiday market for artists in the region.
Read articleImagination kindles in the Depression: BTG brings Truman Capote’s Holiday Memories
Deep in the Depression, a boy and his motherly cousin have saved pennies for a year to make fruit cakes — as Berkshire Theatre Group brings an outdoor performance of Truman Capote’s ‘Holiday Memories’ to life.
Read articleHalloween gleams at the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show
Jack-o-lanterns glimmer at the Naumkeag pumpkin show, carved with fantastic shapes — dragons and sea creatures, owls and octopuses …
Read articleIn Bridge’s Happiness Toolbox, youth celebrate their own stories
On a sunny morning, a group of young people stood in the meadow below an open ridge, reading a poem that Theresa (Miller) Beaudieu, a member of the Stockbridge Munsee Community Band of the Mohicans, wrote and set here in 1997 …
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