Saturday, January 18, 2025

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Alison Larkin

Alison Larkin is a comedian, award-winning audiobook narrator, producer, actress and the bestselling author of “The English American,” an autobiographical novel which sprang from her first solo show about an adopted English woman who finds her birth mother in the U.S. As an actress she has appeared on Broadway with the Royal National Theatre and Off-Broadway with the Royal Shakespeare Company. As a stand-up comic, she appeared regularly at The Comic Strip in NY and The Comedy Store in L.A. Since moving to the Berkshires to raise her two children, she has narrated over two hundred and fifty audiobooks, including the “Complete Novels of Jane Austen,“ currently the #1 best-selling Austen audiobook in the world. Her audiobook company Alison Larkin Presents, based in Stockbridge, has won 15 AudioFile Earphones awards for excellence. Her new autobiographical one woman show, “Grief... A Comedy,” will embark on a world tour in 2024, starting at the Edinburgh Fringe. She has just finished writing a book of the same name. For more information visit www.alisonlarkin.com.

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Grief and comedy? Huh?

“I can’t control what happens to me,” South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu once told me several years ago, “but I can control how I respond to it.”

Alison Larkin reflects on her latest work, ‘Grief, the Musical …a Comedy’

"Grief the Musical…a Comedy" performed by Alison Larkin and directed by James Warwick, opens the Great Barrington Public Theater’s Solo Fest at Simon’s Rock, June 3–12.

Bhimashankar Venkata Nitta, 54, of North Bennington, Vt., devoted to clean energy

Bhima worked tirelessly, patiently and passionately to help his customers and community to gain energy independence and to promote clean, sustainable power.

Coffee shop companionship — at a distance

While we wait for the next generation to become strong enough to lead, I think we need to be very careful who we vote into any kind of office.

‘Friends for Life’: Teens in crisis and the healing power of friendship

“I think some people can acknowledge depression and talk about it. But for some people, they don't even know what's going on. And they’re having all these symptoms, but they don't know what it’s from, and they feel like no one else is feeling like they are." -- Miranda Hastings

Signs of life in Berkshires mid-winter

When you’re facing something really tough and you’re so worried you can’t sleep, living through a Berkshire winter can be helpful.

International flair – and Paddington Bear – at Lawrence of London salon

Lawrence of London is the brainchild of Trevor and Denise Forbes and their daughter and son-in-law Samantha and Luke Lawrence, two experienced hairdressers who have worked on both sides of the Atlantic.

Larkin about in America: Revisiting Hogwarts

J K Rowling’s masterful script has been conjured into one of most exciting pieces of theater I have ever seen.

Larkin about in America: Across the Pond

This summer I’m packing up the studio and heading back. And forward perhaps. Making time to get to know England as she is now.

Larkin about in America: Airborne

The news we are fed daily is divisive and alarming, but if we get out of the bubble we find there are also good things happening.

Larkin About In America: Teen readers, hope for the future

At the Teen Book Fest, there are over 1,500 teenagers cheering and screaming as the authors are introduced.

My first town meeting: Stockbridge chooses the greater good

I knew that Monument Mountain Regional High School badly needs fixing -- no school should have to use trash cans to collect rain water because the roof is leaking.
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