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Nicholas Martin’s Last Goodbye
Wraps Three Years as Artistic Director in Williamstown
By: - Aug 13th, 2010We caught up with Nicholas Martin for a hug and a kiss as he prepared for the first act of the sold out rock musical The Last Goodbye. Over the last three years we have shared both professional and personal ups and downs. In his three years as artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival he has put one of the nation's foremost regional theaters back on track.
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Campbell Scott the Stage Manager of WTF’s Our Town
Actor, Director, Writer Returns to Damages This Season
By: - Aug 06th, 2010This summer Campbell Scott has anchored a star studded cast in Nicholas Martin's production of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town. This is his fifth season of participating in the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He has just wrapped shooting the upcoming season of the TV drama series Damages. In an in depth interview Scott discussed wanting to do more writing and directing. As well his productive and challenging life in theatre.
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Emmy Nominee Dylan Baker
Thirteen Seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 11th, 2010Dylan Baker has been nominated for an Emmy Award as Best Guest Actor in a Drama. He played a charming villain accused of murdering his wife in The Good Wife. The lawyer Alicia Florrick got him off. In the next episode he was arrested for murdering a mistress during kinky sex. He also appeared this year in several episodes of Ugly Betty and on Broadway in God of Carnage. He took a break from rehearsing Our Town, directed by Nicholas Martin, to discuss a career that includes thirteen seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Nicholas Martin Having the Time of His Life
Final Season as Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 30th, 2010Meeting with Nicholas Martin the artistic director for the Williamstown Theatre Festival I assumed this was the last of our seasonal meetings. This is his third and final year of running WTF. But he surprised me by stating that he will be back next year. To direct a play. In an at times intense and emotional interview we discussed his legacy. As well as insights regarding Stephen Sondheim and his impact on musical theatre in America. Martin is directing Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" this summer. It will feature a cast of many of the WTF "Family."
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Metropolitan Musum of Art Celebrates Ringo
70 Years Young on July 9
By: - Jun 29th, 2010On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will inaugurate a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will remain on view to the public through December 2010 in the Museum's second-floor Musical Instruments Galleries. On loan from Ringo Starr, it was originally presented to him by the Ludwig Drum Company during The Beatles' 1964 visit to Chicago when the legendary rock group, in which Mr. Starr was the drummer, was on its first tour of the United States.
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Berkshire International Club
Steamy Summer Picnic
By: - Jun 22nd, 2010It was a gorgeous summer day for the seasonal picnic of the Berkshire International Club. A group of some 70 members gathered around a cool and inviting pool. There was a fabulous spread of food to share including an array of sinful deserts. Many languages were spoken as friends exchanged tales of travel and adventure.
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Dennis Lee Hopper May 17, 1936
Method in His Madness
By: - Jun 07th, 2010In 1980 while he was touring to promote a film he acted in and directed, Out of the Blue, I interviewed Dennis Hopper. He excused himself several times becoming more and more gonzo. It was after one of those line breaks that I shot the iconic image that accompanies this obituary. The exchange was so vivid it seems like yesterday. Hopper was an American original who never lived up to his full potential.
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Richie duPont Award Benefit
Berkshire Theatre Festival Hosts Event May 22
By: - May 12th, 2010The Fifth Annual Richie duPont Award Benefit will take place at 8 pm Saturday, May 22, at Firefly on Church Street in Lenox. What began in 2006 as a memorial to Richie duPont, a promising young actor lost in his prime, will be a celebration of his life at a party to raise funds for awards for budding local thespians to attend Berkshire Theatre Festival’s summer and school vacation acting camps.
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Berkshire Beat: Porches, Alcombright, Galleries
Out and About in North Adams
By: - Apr 30th, 2010In just an eye blink we morphed from the last gasp of winter, two inches of snow on April 27, to a blast of Spring. The social season is heating up. On Wednesday night we attended Nancy Jane Fitzpatrick's Facebook party at Porches. Including a rare glimpse of Porches owner John S. Wadsworth, Jr. Thursday was ultra busy. We started with Mayor Dick Alcombright's spaghetti supper at the V.F.W. We moved on to several openings on Main Street. Ending with Martha Flood's new studio and shop on Eagle Street.
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Pictures from Exhibitions; The Berkshires
Jeff Hudson, Dawn Nelson & Len Poliandro
By: - Apr 18th, 2010It was a busy weekend of vernissages in the Berkshires. On Friday night the Eclipse Mill Gallery presented sculpture by Len Poliandro, and paintings by Dawn Nelson. On Saturday Jeff Hudson opened a show of his landscapes at Hudson's an antiques store and gallery in Williamstown. On Friday, save the date, Greylock Arts in Adams will open a new exhibition.
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Len Poliandro's Glass and Steel Sculptures
Show with Painter Dawn Nelson at Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Apr 14th, 2010Two years ago the Williamstown sculptor, Len Poliandro, showed his work for the first time in the annual Berkshire Salon that launches the season for the Eclipse Mill Gallery. On Friday, April 16 he opens a two person show with the painter Dawn Nelson that has been curated by the artist Julie Seitel. He discussed the work and what this exhibition means to him.
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Susan Wissler Discusses The Mount
The Worst Is Over But Challenges Lay Ahead
By: - Apr 04th, 2010After a period of practising corporate law in New York Susan Wissler arrived at The Mount in 2001. When Stephanie Copeland resigned during the fiscal crisis of 2008 Wissler took over as executive director. Since then debt has been reduced from $8 million to $5.1 million with an annual operating budget of $2 million. The new season that starts on May 1 will entail expanded programming and the First Annual Literary Festival.
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Anita Hill to Deliver Commencement Address at MCLA
Painter Stephen Hannock Among Those Honored.
By: - Apr 01st, 2010Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will celebrate its 111th Commencement exercises on Saturday, May 22, 2010, beginning at 11 a.m., in the Amsler Campus Center Gymnasium.Anita F. Hill, Attorney and Brandeis University Professor of Law, Public Policy, and Women's Studies, will deliver the keynote address. Among others honored with by Berkshire based and internationally renowned artist Stephen Hannock.
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Gerard Malanga at Pierre Menard Gallery
Cambridge Retrospective Evokes Reflection
By: - Mar 30th, 2010The occasion of a retrospective of 100 photographs at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge evoked a far ranging dialogue with the poet/ artist and archivist Gerard Malanga. The images range from intimate friends- poets, artists, musicians- to brief encounters. This is the first of three installments of an in depth interview conducted over several days.
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Gerard Malanga Interview Part Two
Still Shooting Black and White Film
By: - Mar 30th, 2010"Photographing with film is a visual language for me and I'm constantly seeing new ways of playing with the light, whether it's a building facade or the human face. I want to stick with what I know and advance within that range. I find that just seeing the nature of a digital camera you've become tethered to a computer screen. All your stuff is in this one box. I like to hold a contactsheet in my hand and scrutinize it with a lupe. I like the process of doing that. It's more tactile."
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Gerard Malanga Interview Part Three
A Touch of the Poets
By: - Mar 30th, 2010Malanga has known, collaborated with and photographed many poets, writers and editors. In this installment he recalls an assignment to interview Charles Olson in Gloucester for the Paris Review. He also discusses being on the road reading his own work and presenting aspects of the Warhol legacy.
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Artists Gather at Deerfield Inn
Annual Event for Pioneer Valley Community
By: - Mar 24th, 2010It started as a series of dinners in the homes of the artist, Jane Lund, and curator/ appraiser, E. Linda Poras. The annual gathering initially moved to the Lord Jeffrey Inn in Amherst. For the past two years it has been convened at the Deerfield Inn. Recently we joined some 60 others in the Pioneer Valley arts community of Western Mass. We also got to explore the fascinating history of the village and its Colonial era architecture.
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North Adams Winterfest
Nathaniel Stern at Greylock Arts
By: - Feb 28th, 2010With fresh snow on the ground there was the right ambiance for the annual Winterfest in North Adams. Artists carved ice sculptures and there was a chowder contest with local restaurants. Later we moved on to Greylock Arts in Adams where the artist Nathaniel Stern was busy installing.
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Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage Company
Discussing the Upcoming Season in Pittsfield
By: - Feb 24th, 2010Compared to other Berkshire theatre companies it seems that Barrington Stage plays it safe in running the hits. This season opening with Sweeney Todd. But Julianne Boyd in a recent interview responded that it just smart business in a tough economy. She takes pride in developing six productions that have moved on to New York. She is also excited by the cultural renaissance and economic development in Pittsfield.
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Berkshire Museum Armed and Dangerous
Locked and Loaded With Stuart Chase
By: - Feb 18th, 2010Back in the day the Berkshire Museum, the oldest in the region, collected everything from soup to nuts. The museum's director, Stuart Chase, is challenged to find projects drawn from a vast collection of 30,000 objects. The interactive exhibitions are fun for families and instructive for 13,000 annual visiting students.
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Tina Packer on Women of Will
Shakespeare & Company Five Part Series
By: - Feb 15th, 2010William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets. Starting 15 years ago, Tina Paker has been creating a cycle of five compilations which she calls Women of Will. There will be a preview on February 28. From the end of May through the fall she and Nigel Gore will perform the five parts at Shakespeare & Company. It is an undertaking of epic depth and historic importance.
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Joe Finnegan WTF's Suit With Passion
First Season with Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Feb 07th, 2010Joe Finnegan, a former Wall Street floor trader, who evokes the heart-throb, Don, in TV's Mad Men, moved his family four years ago to Williamstown. He hooked up with boyhood friend Steve Lawson to become President of his Williamstown Film Festival. We talked with Finnegan about gearing up for his first season as General Manager of the prestigious but challenged Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Haiti Plunge Benefit Concert Jan. 30
Williamstown JavaJive
By: - Jan 25th, 2010Saturday January 30 at 7pm JavaJive hosts the "All Together Now" Haiti Benefit Concert and Dance Party at Mount Greylock Regional High School. This is an all-ages concert, with dancing encouraged, featuring local performers, young and old, professional and amateur, coming together as a community to support our brothers and sisters in Haiti.
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Delusion: Laurie Anderson Talks with Joe Thompson at Mass MoCA
Vancouver Winter Olympics Then Williams Feb. 27
By: - Jan 21st, 2010Performance artist, musician and composer, Laurie Anderson, has been in residence at Mass MoCA working on Delusion a new work commissioned for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. She will return to the Berkshires performing February 27 at the 62 Center of Williams College.
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Helen Molesworth ICA's New Chief Curator
Leaves Harvard to Join the ICA in February
By: - Jan 13th, 2010In the art world equivalent of musical chairs Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art has snatched its new chief curator, Helen Molesworth, from Harvard. Not long ago the ICA lost a young curator, Jen Mergel, to the MFA. What next in these musical chairs with an empty seat at Harvard which has put on indefinite hold its plans for a new modern/ contemporary museum.
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