This week we sample four new memoirs, the current rage in publishing.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Winners Take All’ — The dangers of ‘doing well by doing good’
Instead of waiting to see where Zuckerberg and his fellow billionaires decide to bestow their riches next, how about we advocate to eliminate the myriad tax tricks so that there is more tax revenue to support public education.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘The Decorator’ at the Theater Barn brings some of the finest physical comedy of the season
This marks the finest season-ender this company has provided in years.
Berkshire artists in major outdoor sculpture exhibit
Pingree is the only school in the country to host such an art show, and the exhibit has become the largest outdoor sculpture show in the Northeast.
REVIEW: Father and son Ellis and Wynton Marsalis showcase taste, technical chops to jazz aficionados at Tanglewood
Ellis Marsalis' first chord made you glad to be in a venue where they know how to properly mic a grand piano. His second chord made you glad you were listening to a man with nothing to prove.
AUDIOBOOKS: Extraordinary experiences of ordinary people
Here are four audiobooks written by ordinary people who have lived through extraordinary experiences.
POEM: American Bouillabaisse: Take Two
Globally bubbling, ready to serve. That’s us.
Oldtone Music Festival, four days of celebrating American roots music
The Oldtone Roots Music festival, on a mission to preserve American Roots music and dance, features hand-picked artists dedicated to unique American traditions.
THEATRE REVIEW: Small moments, emotional changes elevate Oldcastle Theatre Company’s ‘Proof’
Lucky theatergoers in Bennington will find a production of this play that justifies its awards, and that is really something to see.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘As You Like It’ a superb finale to Shake & Co. summer season
Director Allyn Burrows places Shakespeare’s romantic comedy in The Roaring Twenties, tapping into the abandon and changing values of the rollicking Prohibition era.
AUDIOBOOKS: Traveling the globe
We travel the globe this week with tales from Canada, New York City, Somalia and the old West.
PREVIEW: Steve Martin and Martin Short to bring stand-up comedy, musical numbers, reminiscences to Tanglewood
Steve Martin and Martin Short have been touring together sporadically since 2016. To no one's surprise, they have gotten their act down to a fine science.
THEATRE REVIEW: In Shakespeare & Co.’s outstanding production of ‘Mothers and Sons’ Annette Miller’s performance is riveting
With impeccable timing, nuanced vocal shifts and calibrated movement—the adjusting of the skirt, the nervous twitching of hands, the folding of the arms in self defense—Ms. Miller creates an indelible, psychologically credible, pathetic character.
REVIEW: Sexy, philosophical ‘Candide’ by the Knights at Tanglewood
If the overall story was a succession of loosely threaded skits, Leonard Bernstein’s music was a curio box that overflowed with pleasures.
THEATRE REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s ‘Well Intentioned White People’ lacks character development despite a powerful message
The real drama lost somewhere in Lynett’s confused work is the tragedy of a person who, by fateful combination of shortcomings in her own judgment and events foisted upon her for which she has no control, sees her life goal at risk.