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Tanglewood Learning Institute and Linde Center announce year-round programming: October 2024 through May 2025

"We are committed to deepening our engagement with local residents and community partners by opening the Linde Center’s doors year-round to present programs that enrich and enliven arts and culture in the Berkshires area," says BSO President and CEO Chad Smith.

Fiona’s Findings: Rock ‘n’ Roll reverie

If you can guess what legendary musicians are represented in Fiona's sketches, you might win one of Fiona's illustrations, customized to your sense of style.

‘Working on a Special Day’: A tour de force

This is theatrical art at its most unique. It is also moving, an emotional firecracker of a play with every element a first-time experience.

Loud, lewd and dancy: ‘Kiss Me Kate’ at Barrington Stage

All in all, this is a lively, sexy, glitzy, sophisticated example of the best that Broadway has provoked from its creative talent pool in the 20th century.

A poem: Continuous deathly worries

A poem by Matt Whalan, with an illustration by Alison Lee.

A stunning, remarkable performance: Kristin Wold as Anne Hathaway in ‘Shakespeare’s Will’

As Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, Kristin Wold triumphs in a role that is written out of imagination and history combined; she breathes life into a name without a face and a presence without presence.

A poem: In My Town

In my town the youth congregate to complain about their futures and Try their hand at drinking away their worries. They want more than their imaginings of the future can give them

Fiona’s Findings: Italians do it better

In Amsterdam, I was looking for an army green field jacket and came across a vendor selling military surplus from across the globe.

A Fable: Acts of the Devil

Herewith a fable for our time by the poet Kurt Kruger, on the wily schemes of the Devil: 'Long ago, when there was much more space than people, I would have gone to each isolated population, in turn, and convinced them that I was God.'

Review: Pooja Ru Prema’s ‘Endure’ lights up the Green River

Pooja has created a deeply personal aesthetic that mines ancient and modern forms. It is challenging and wondrous and a must-see.

Disaster (Man-made)

This jewel of an exhibit shows artists who are unafraid to burst the pretentious ego-inflated bubble of current artistic trends.

Fiona’s Findings: Summer style

Wherein Fiona Breslin explains -- and illustrates -- her summer fashion preferences.

Book Review: The surveillance state: No place to hide, really

Page after page reveals to us with ever increasing horror that we are the most surveilled and spied upon people to ever walk the earth. This is not fiction.

‘Circle Mirror Transformation’ at Mixed Company

What happens when a group of strangers living in a Vermont village sign up for drama class? During the 6-week course, what starts as ridiculous and at times seemingly pointless acting exercises turn into something entirely different.

Pooja Ru Prema’s ‘Endure’ in the Green River: A unique recreation of a 10,000-year-old Indian art form

"Endure" portrays the story of a man and a woman falling in love, and then out of love. In the piece are the extreme archetypes of the masculine and the feminine.

Berkshire Playwrights Lab: Seven Successful Years Celebrated with a Gala

"This is one of my favorite events in the Berkshires. It’s a true honor to be a part of this -- they are celebrating new playwrights, new work, rich language and stories that resonate within all of us." -- Shakespeare and Company actress and Communications Director Elizabeth Aspenlieder

A Bohemian idyll at Ozawa Hall: Close Encounters with Music presents ‘The Many Faces of Antonin Dvorak’

"The Close Encounters' mission here, as always, is to present a comprehensive picture of the a musical world that we can encapsulate and share." -- Yehuda Hanani, founder and artistic director of Close Encounters with Music