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Berkshire 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.

In 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."

Taken from the Sophocles tragedy, Elektra vows revenge on her mother Klytemnestra and her mother's lover Aegisth for having murdered her father Agammemnon.

The 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.

How 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.

This 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.

On 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.

Revisiting the Eameses’ modular dream at a moment when policy, economics, and architecture are under pressure to deliver.

Roger 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.

Barrington 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.

Hubbard Hall Theater Company presents Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Sunday in the Park with George

Outside 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.

Lise 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.

As you enter the Eclipse Mill Gallery the impact of Breathing and Color, Carlos and Sandra Caicedo, packs an immediate visual wallop.

This 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

Yo-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.

Through 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.

Sarah'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

Nathan 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.

Debra 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,

School Principal Aloysius suspects Father Flynn of having intoxicated and abused a student. Despite the absence of meaningful evidence, she pursues her quarry relentlessly.

The 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.

Jade 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?”

Rosina'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.

The budget provides $20 million in programming support, less than half of the $51 million recommended by the Florida Council on Arts and Culture to fully fund grants for 563 non-profit organizations.