Sylvia Plath knew that her life after death by suicide would be larger than her life in life. The confluence of great gifts and great sensitivity made her life difficult. So too her German parents and then her husband, Ted Hughes. This musical portrait pictures poet Plath in 50's culture, a study of contrasts.

“The Comedy of Errors” is a crafty selection, by Barry Edelstein, to close out the ‘summer season’ at The Old Globe. Under Director Ellis’ creative staging, the masterful production, has been moved up in time from an Elizabethan setting to the jazz-age, sexy, wide-open, ‘laissez les bon temps rouler’ lifestyle of 1920’s New Orleans (NOLA).

Season after season for twenty-eight years the Irish Repertory Theatre has produced plays which touch not only the soul of a nation, but the human soul. A culture in which everyone tells stories provides the bedrock for great story-telling literature. Plays like The Weir offer an artful slice of life and capture its poetry and pain. Playwright McPherson loves the monologue, and weaves four as individual stories into the stories of five residents of a small Irish town.

Jiminy Peak Resort, of New Ashford, Massachusetts, partners with Nexamp, a solar energy developer to construct a 2.3 megawayy solar energy facility that will tackle the majority of power used on the ski mountain and the neighboring community.

In nooks and crannies all over New York, talent is busting out in the 19th New York International Fringe Festival. Herrera is a percussionist who finds the beat wherever she is. In her entrancing concept of a kid in a warehouse music factory, buckets and bikes found lying on the floor offer opportunities for novel and instant sounds. They are even better than chocolate.

The circus came to town joining the Pops for perhaps the most fun and entertaining evening of summer at Tanglewood.

Tejo with its temperate southern Mediterranean climate has 50,000 acres of vineyards, 2800 hours of sunlight a year and less than 30 inches of rainfall each year with temperatures that average 60°F

With the opening of Red Velvet at Shakespeare & Company behind him John Douglas Thompson had time for a leisurely breakfast in Lenox. It was the latest in a series of interviews about his classical and contemporary roles that started with Othello in 2006. This is the first of two parts of that recent dialogue

Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, the new sexy comedy at the Windy City Playhouse, is a comic farce with a coarse edge. Noel Coward it isn't.

Nineteen sculptures by Chicago-born sculptor Charles Ray fill three large galleries on the second floor of the Chicago Art Institute's Modern Wing through October 4.

During the tenth annual Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, September 24 to 27, there will be a staged reading of a work by John Guare "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven" adapted from a short story by Williams.

What happens when a woman can't stand her best friend's finance but shags him anyway? It's only sex she reasons and I was drunk. That's about as deep as it gets in a millenial comedy Engagements by Lucy Teitler having a world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in Lenox.

Eight different playwrights dramatize or "are inspired by" one of the stories of Franz Kafka, the late great Czech storyteller, who tried to keep his unpublished works from being published after his death.

Mostly Mozart. adding a soupçon of musical interest for its audiences and a splendid opportunity for rising young talent to perform in important venues, offers a concert pre-concert, in which you might even hear Emmanuel Ax. Avery FIsher Hall, configured for the Festival, is an acoustically satisfying, intimate experience.

The Lumbee Indian, Lloyd Oxendine, who died on August 5, held a BA in art history from Columbia where he also earned an MFA. From 1970-78 he ran a New York gallery dedicated to Native American Art. In 1972 he wrote what proved to be most of an issue of Art in American surveying 23 artists. For many years he was a brilliant and outspoken activist.

The Berkshires' premier wine & food festival was a hit to the 1,000 plus patrons who wined and dined on local food and international wine.

By all accounts from the audience to musicians and critics the BSO has never sounded better than under its young artistic director Andris Nelsons. The BSO has departed Tanglewood earlier than usual to start a European tour on August 22 through September 5. The BSO opens its fall season in October.

From August 20 to Septrember 10 the Italian born artist, Vico Fabbris, will exhibit Imaginalis at the Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown. The artist invents exotic species of flowers in watercolor and more recently also with paint on canvas.

Verdi's Rigoletto is a tragic masterpiece and one of the top ten most performed operas in the world. It can exist on a grand scale, but at Hubbard Hall you will witness the human side of this production. The audience can feel the moving power that sometimes is only delivered in the most intimate of spaces as an exquisite pianissimo whisper.

Hats off to the members of the Lenox Garden Club and the Berkshire Botanical Gardens for hosting the ever so popular 'Fete des Fleurs' event at the Gardens in Lenox,Massachusetts. Music was courtesy of luminary Mike Schiffer with hors d'ouvres from Kate Baldwin Caterering.

For their Jacob's Pillow debut The Sarasota Ballet presented three of the 123 ballets they perform. The company is best know for its commitment to the work of the British choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton.

When playwright Martin Sherman came upon a reference to “pink triangles” in the 1976 play “As Time Goes By”, according to program notes written by American Theatre Magazine editor-in-chief Rob Weinert-Kendt, the eureka moment for Sherman was the key element in the creation of his play “Bent”, which went on to debut in London’s West End in 1979, and then on Broadway in 1980.

Three time Oliver Award winner Mike Bartlett's An Intervention is having its American premiere anchoring the Nikos Stage programming of the Williamstown Theater Festival. The clever and verbose two hander is being staged with two rotating casts. We saw it with Josh Hamilton and Justin Long.

John Douglas Thompson is astonishing in Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet which continues until September 13 at Shakespeare & Company. It tells the true life story of Ira Aldridge the first artist of color to portray Othello on the London stage in 1833.

The list of vendors for the 10th Annual Tanglewood Wine & Food Classic is part of the slide show. For foodies this is August 15 event is eagerly anticipated.