(CHESTER, Mass.) – Chester Theatre Company (CTC) will present a themed season of plays, called Uncommon Love Stories, from July 5 to August 26, 2012, featuring variations on the theme of love in works by Rajiv Joseph, Elizabeth Egloff, Arlene Hutton and Dipika Guha. “There’s a saying in the theater trade that all plays are…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Works by David Mamet, Harold Pinter and Shel Silverstein will be featured in an evening of short plays and sketches featuring the Berkshire Community College (BCC) Players and edited and directed by Berkshire Playwrights Lab founder and co-artistic director Jim Frangione from February 24 to March 3 at the Koussevitzky Arts Center…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Alchemy Initiative is gearing up for its third annual Earth Day Fashion Show and Clothes Swap, to be held on April 20-21, 2012, and is putting out a community call for clothes, shoes, and accessories. “The last two years our call for clothes brought in literally tons of used clothes. So let’s…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Alternative farmer Joel Salatin will give a talk at Williams College about his book, The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer, on Thursday, February 23, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall in Bernhard Music Center. The event is free and open to the public. Salatin’s book examines different aspects…
(SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.) – The fifty-year old deteriorating façade on Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s historic amphitheatre will be gone by the time the curtain rises on SPAC’s 2012 Season. A project to renovate SPAC’s façade is getting underway, with completion projected for May. In recent years, the deterioration of the amphitheatre’s exterior has become visibly…
(SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.) – The Saratoga Jazz Festival, one of the most celebrated and longest-running jazz events in the world, will celebrate its landmark 35th Anniversary at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), June 30 and July 1, 2012, with a dynamic lineup of more than 20 acclaimed artists and ensembles on two stages. Festival headliners…
After tackling American maverick composer Charles Ives and receiving a Grammy Award nomination for it, vocalist Theo Bleckmann now takes on the mysterious songbook of British pop recluse Kate Bush. Beyond merely re-creating Kate Bush’s music, Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush (Winter & Winter) takes it into other realms of sound and interpretation.…
The article “The Spectacular Rise and Fall of U.S. Whaling: An Innovation Story” from The Atlantic left us with some questions about the demise of the whale oil industry. Why it happened and why does it matter now? What follows is an attempt to respond to those quarries. Sensing a possible end in sight with…
TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET to PLAY JIMI HENDRIX at the COLONIAL (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Classical/jazz fusion ensemble Turtle Island Quartet will celebrate the music of Jimi Hendrix with their dynamic Have You Ever Been…? program on Friday, February 17, 2012, at 8 p.m. at the Colonial Theatre. Through its exploration of jazz, classical, American vernacular and…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Classical/jazz fusion ensemble Turtle Island Quartet will celebrate the music of Jimi Hendrix with their dynamic Have You Ever Been…? program on Friday, February 17, 2012, at 8 p.m. at the Colonial Theatre. Through its exploration of jazz, classical, American vernacular and world music styles, the Turtle Island Quartet has taken its…
