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Lenox’s Arcadian Shop awaits path forward to continue its Stockbridge Bowl kayak launch program

“All [kayak rental] transactions occur at the Arcadian Shop,” Arcadian Shop co-owner Chris Calvert told The Berkshire Edge during a July 9 phone interview.

THEATRE REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘Pinocchio’ a raucous retelling in the panto tradition

There cannot be a better way to address the political mish-mash we live in outside of this adorable theater in Columbia County.

THEATRE REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘The Cemetery Club’ plays out with potential on a terrific set

“The Cemetery Club” is enjoyable enough and with a few more performances, should jell into the sort of appetizer that makes a season into a delectable dinner party.

THEATRE REVIEW: In Ghent Playhouse’s ‘Don Juan, the libertine,’ comic elements come first

As in any good Moliere play, the comic elements come first and this play is not averse to the physical and psychological silliness that makes his plays work well.

THEATRE REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘A View From the Bridge’ the best of the season

The drama is potent and powerful and pleasant to watch in this well-staged, nicely acted edition.

REVIEW: Ghent Playhouse’s ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’ a cross-dressing fairy tale with wit, music and political barbs

While I could have gone home happier with some truly barbarous barbs, the show still entertained and delighted, and the audience had almost as good a time as the company.

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘The Father’ at the Ghent Playhouse a fine job with a difficult play, subject

Kudos to the theater company for taking on such an unusual play about such a difficult topic.

THEATRE REVIEW: Once again ‘Our Town,’ this time with new life

Every once in a while, something happens to transform this play and bring it back to its origins and, when that happens, as it did on stage at the Ghent Playhouse, it transforms me and my feelings about the play.

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘Clever Little Lies’ at Ghent Playhouse, funny and thoughtful

In a season defined thus far by the shallowness of parody, this play is a mood- and mode-changer, bringing us deeper and more thoughtful theater.

Bits & Bytes: Parade of Lights; ‘Messiah’ sing-in; ‘A Day in the Life of a Girl and Boy’ family day; ‘The Little Mermaid;’ Monica...

At the Norman Rockwell Museum family day author Will Lach will hold a reading and talk about the books, and have a conversation with model Mary Whalen Leonard, who posed for several of Rockwell’s most beloved paintings.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Guitar’ exhibit; ‘Art from Farm to Table;’ FilmWorks Forum; ‘True West’ at Ghent Playhouse

'Art from Farm to Table' includes depictions and interpretations of landscapes, buildings, farm life, flowers, vegetables, insects and animals–everything found in an agricultural environment that might, or might not, end up on a table.

REVIEW: “Boeing, Boeing,” a hilarious comic romp

What Director Cathy Lee-Visscher has managed to do is to take something old and familiar and redefine it into something new and familiar at the same time
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