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BRIGHT SPOTS: Week of June 18, 2025

Journalists are reporting on the constant chaos, but they are not featuring the Congresspeople who are speaking up. Here are a few; there are many more.

THEATRE REVIEW: Town Players of Pittsfield’s ‘New and Used,’ a promise premiere

The play needs a few nips and tucks, some cuts and some improvements, but the show's concept is delicious and the flow of the piece is right on.

Berkshire Theatre Critics Association defines categories for third season

The object of the selection of winners is not to single out the “best” in any category, but to reward the outstanding elements of the season, the work that is not possible to forget, that stands out, that exemplifies excellence.

Bits & Bytes: First Fridays Artswalk; Litchfield Jazz Festival; Berkshire Comedy Festival; Lenox 250th art show; staged reading auditions

The Richmond-West Stockbridge Artists' Guild will hold an art show celebrating the 250th anniversary of Lenox Saturday, Aug. 4, and Sunday, Aug. 5.

Bits & Bytes: James Warhola at Norman Rockwell; Duncan dancers at Stockbridge Library; ‘After the Darkness’ staged reading; student places in video contest; mattress...

Isadora Duncan was well known to the communities of Stockbridge and Lenox at the turn of the century and gave outdoor recitals at Berkshire cottages.

Bits & Bytes: Fifth annual 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival; Chinese New Year celebration; Ramsdell Library Sundays; Williams diversity series; EP from Oakes and Smith

Week Five of winter Sunday afternoons at Ramsdell Public Library, the focus will be on the suffragette movement in the United States and Great Britain.

Bits & Bytes: Mahaiwe holiday programs; OLLI open house; new Simon’s Rock provost; Upstreet Holiday Festival; Berkshire Grown farmers’ markets

Bard College President Leon Botstein has announced the appointment of Dr. Ian Bickford, Simon's Rock ‘95, as provost of Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Bickford will begin his term in January, succeeding Dr. Peter Laipson.

Review: ‘Mum Bett’s Minute,’ and the passion for freedom

"If one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it — just to stand one minute on God's Earth a free woman." -- Mum Bett, in Jesse Waldinger's "Mum Bett's Minute"
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