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Berkshire Artist Morgan Bulkeley at 81
Had 2018 Retrospective at Berkshire Museum
By: - Jun 14th, 2026Berkshire artist, Morgan Bulkeley, died on May 11 after a long illness. He was 81. Bulkeley was known for whimsical narrative work in a variety of media from painting to carved relief and free-standing sculpture. He graduated from Yale where he majored in literature. That led to an auto-didactic approach. Approachable and understated he was admired and appreciated by a circle of friends in Boston and the Berkshires. What follows is a review of his 2018 retrospective at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. There is going to be a memorial service for him on July 18th.
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Ain't Too Proud
Musical and Personal History of the Temptations
By: - Jun 14th, 2026Emerging from the Motown stable, the Temptations became the most successful R&B singing group of their era, perhaps of all time. But with success came the pain of many personal failures. Ain't Too Proud evidences the joy of their music against the backdrop of the challenges of dealing with professional demands and fragile psyches.
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Henry Ferrini of Gloucester Writers Center
Founding Director to Retire
By: - Jun 14th, 2026In a newsletter Henry Ferrini wrote "As many of you know, I am retiring on June 30th as Director of the Gloucester Writers Center. As one of its founders, I wanted to share a little origin story of how Vincent's home became the community's house."
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San Francisco Opera's Elektra
Strauss's Horrifying Opera
By: - Jun 09th, 2026Taken from the Sophocles tragedy, Elektra vows revenge on her mother Klytemnestra and her mother's lover Aegisth for having murdered her father Agammemnon.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air
Typhoon George
By: - Jun 10th, 2026The thought caught Joey, broadside. Yeah, he mused, slumping back into the plush leather sofa George's company thoughtfully provided out in reception, maybe that's it? He's being fired.
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Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette's Take on Family Conflict and Teen Angst
By: - Jun 08th, 2026How often do we learn of what seemed to be an idyllic family concealing secrets that belie their apparent success and happiness? The musical based on the wildly popular album of the same name powerfully explores family dynamics and teen rebellion.
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Nike: Form Follows Motion,
Museum of Arts and Design
By: - Jun 11th, 2026This fall, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) presents Nike: Form Follows Motion, marking the U.S. premiere of the first ever comprehensive museum exhibition on the world’s most influential sports brand.
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Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood
48th Annual Outdoor Exhibition
By: - Jun 11th, 2026On June 15, Chesterwood will open its 48th annual outdoor Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood exhibition on the grounds of the summer home of American Renaissance sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931). This year’s exhibition, In the Open: New England Sculptors Reclaim the Land, features works by twenty-two artists from across New England and New York, amplifying some of the region’s most compelling voices in contemporary sculpture. The exhibit runs through October 31.
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Affordable Housing by Design
Revisiting the Eameses Modular Dream
By: - Jun 03rd, 2026Revisiting the Eameses’ modular dream at a moment when policy, economics, and architecture are under pressure to deliver.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie's Most Esteemed Crime Story
By: - Jun 07th, 2026Roger Ackroyd's presumed murder brings Hercule Poirot out of retirement. Common to many Agatha Christie novels, a large number of characters close to the deceased become suspects, and while each has an alibi, some of them are questionable. A unique plot twist elevates the story in the minds of aficionados.
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World Premiere of The Zionists: A Family Storm
Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jun 10th, 2026Barrington Stage Company (Alan Paul, Artistic Director; Greg Reiner, Executive Director) will present the world premiere of The Zionists: A Family Storm, a gripping new play by acclaimed playwright S. Asher Gelman (Afterglow), directed by Chloe Treat and produced in association with Miami New Drama. Performances run June 16 through July 3 at the Boyd-Quinson Stage, with opening night set for June 20.
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Hubbard Hall Theater Company
Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George
By: - Jun 11th, 2026Hubbard Hall Theater Company presents Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Sunday in the Park with George
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Outside In
Berkshires Gallery + Creative Studio
By: - Jun 10th, 2026Outside In is a group exhibition inspired by the landscapes, gardens, changing light, and quiet moments that shape life in the Berkshires as the artists see it. Through painting, photography, and other media, regional artists explore not only the beauty of the natural world around us, but the ways those experiences become part of who we are. The exhibition features the work of Elizabeth Buttler, Diane Firtell, Monica Miller Link, Diane Pearl, and the late photographer Hal Schwartz.
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Lise Davidsen Ignites Carnegie Hall
James Ballieu Collaborates
By: - Jun 07th, 2026Lise Davidsen ignited Carnegie Hall in a performance of Schubert Lieder. She often speaks about Schubert having a divine spark, which sets afire the full range of human emotion. His music is perfectly suited to the human voice, and the accompaniment for his art songs often has a life of its own, captured expertly by Ms. Davidsen’s longtime collaborator at the piano, James Baillieu.
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Breathing Color, Carlos and Sandra Caicedo
Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams
By: - Jun 04th, 2026As you enter the Eclipse Mill Gallery the impact of Breathing and Color, Carlos and Sandra Caicedo, packs an immediate visual wallop.
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Chesterwood Summer Program
Historic Home and Estate in Stockbrdge
By: - Jun 03rd, 2026This season’s performing arts series showcases programs in music, dance, literature, poetry, and theater, with highlights including Boston Baroque’s The X-Tet, Reson8 Vocal Octet, Great Barrington Public Theater, the New England Poetry Club, a panel discussion on patriotism with former Governor Deval Patrick, former Boston Globe and Washington Post editor Martin Baron, Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth, and historian Kendra Field
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Yo Yo Ma at Tanglwood
We The People: Our Shared Past, Present, and Future
By: - Jun 03rd, 2026Yo-Yo Ma joins Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and special guests in We The People: Our Shared Past, Present, and Future, a weeklong residency curated by Ma. This series of concerts, conversations, and gatherings (Aug. 1–9) offers a window into Ma’s perspective on the American experiment, inviting us to celebrate community and common purpose, consider our relationship to one another and to the land we share, and imagine a hopeful future.
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Light Switch
Strong Professional Production of Dave Osmundsen's Complex, Touching, and Funny Play
By: - Jun 05th, 2026Through June 14, Island City Stage, near Ft. Lauderdale, presents an engaging professional production of Dave Osmundsen's play, "Light Switch." The nonlinear play chronicles 20 years in the life of Henry Sullivan, a gay autistic Ph.D. student seeking connection in the modern dating world. Acclaimed director Michael Leeds directs a talented quintet of actors.
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From the Novel Call It In the Air
The Blemish
By: - Jun 03rd, 2026Sarah's 1936 penny had not aged a day during the intervening quarter-century since she had purchased it. She had not let it. The meaning it held for her was still as clear as it had been on August the twenty-sixth, the day she bought it, brand spanking new, a souvenir of her eleventh wedding anniversary which fell on that day
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Death of a Salesman on Broadway
Underwhelming
By: - Jun 04th, 2026Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf in Death of a Salesman sounds like ideal casting; and Lane is giving a fine performance. But this production under the direction of Joe Mantello Arthur left me unmoved.
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Driving Miss Daisy Is a Blast in Pittsfield
Debra Jo Rupp Sizzles in Iconic Role
By: - Jun 01st, 2026Debra Jo Rupp is regarded as a cherished treasure of Berkshire Theatre. She is truly magnificent in the Barrington Stage Company production directed with precise authority by Julianne Boyd. There is a superb supporting cast of Ray Anthony Thomas as her chauffeur Hoke and Matthew W. Koreinko as her businessman son, Boolie Wertham. In the intimate St. Germain Stage we are close enough to observe every twist and turn of richly nuanced performances,
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Doubt
Opera Parallele's Engaging Opera Set to Engrossing Drama
By: - Jun 02nd, 2026School Principal Aloysius suspects Father Flynn of having intoxicated and abused a student. Despite the absence of meaningful evidence, she pursues her quarry relentlessly.
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The Alchemical Ash
Part One of Three
By: - Jun 02nd, 2026The scholar had spent three years tracing the lineage of a single, rare manuscript on the Heavenly Horse Water Form. When he finally tracked the old teacher to a drafty shack in the northern hills, he carried the text in a silk-lined case like a holy relic. He wanted to debate the translation of the third stanza. He wanted definitions.
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Who is Eartha Mae
One Woman Show Portrays Eartha Kitt
By: - Jun 02nd, 2026Jade Wheeler may not look a lot like actor and singer Eartha Kitt but she sure makes you believe the distinctive entertainer is on stage at Urbanite Theatre in her one-woman show “Who is Eartha Mae?”
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The Barber of Seville at San Francisco Opera
Rossini's Cherished Comic Opera
By: - May 31st, 2026Rosina's guardian, Doctor Bartolo, intends to marry her forthwith, but Count Almaviva also longs to wed her. With the assistance of jack-of-all-trades Figaro, Almaviva uses disguises and subterfuge to undermine Bartolo. Comedy and memorable music prevail throughout.
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