Ancram Center for the Arts Looks Forward to Upcoming Summer Programming and Expansion

This spring, the Ancram Center for the Arts released its plans for the 2024 season, illustrating an exciting range of performances, concerts, workshops, and more. To help provide ample space for this organization’s variety of programs and events, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) recently […]

By |2024-06-07T13:19:19-04:00June 7th, 2024|Backstage, Main Street News, The Arts|

Arts in Western Mass

Thinking about where I might go and what I might trot out to see in the realm of live performances given my druthers this summer, it was time to poke around and make a few decisions. In the event anyone’s asking, after a bit of whittlin’ here and some slicing and dicing there, I hereby […]

By |2024-06-03T09:05:10-04:00May 31st, 2024|Backstage, Main Street News, The Arts|

Heather Dell’Amore’s “No Hope for Oz” is a Powerful and Realistic Depiction of Motherhood

Heather Dell’Amore debuted her one-woman show, “No Hope for Oz,” at the Stissing Center in Pine Plains on Sunday, April 28. 

The show, which is centered around Heather’s life thus far, addresses the ways in which motherhood mirrors childhood and how the way we grow up impacts the ways in which we […]

By |2024-04-29T15:09:20-04:00April 30th, 2024|Backstage, Main Street News, Main Street Recommends, The Arts|

Measure for Measure

It’s not out of the question that were Shakespeare a contemporary playwright, the title of Measure for Measure (on stage at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA through September 18) might have been “What Goes Around Comes Around.” It does … with truly engaging results.

The production marks a return of the work to the Lenox […]

By |2022-08-27T17:29:19-04:00August 27th, 2022|Backstage, Main Street|

Dracula

Dracula will be haunting the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA through August 27 th as Berkshire Theatre Company presents an intriguing new interpretation of the classic adaptation of Bram Stoker’s iconic novel.

In all candor, the play has been done and redone, adapted and filmed so many times that the mere announcement of yet another production […]

By |2022-08-17T12:43:29-04:00August 17th, 2022|Backstage, Main Street|

Guys and Dolls

Live theatre is back at the venerable Sharon Playhouse (Sharon, CT) where their full-blown production of Guys and Dolls is in place through August 14th.  Director/Choreographer Justin Boccitto, who is also serving as “Interim Artistic Director,” made the creative decision to have all of the dancing be tap, and the result is quite amazing.  This […]

By |2022-08-07T22:47:36-04:00August 2nd, 2022|Backstage, Main Street|

Maestros and Mountains at 93

With the New England summer halfway through its creative arc, Music Mountain, the Falls Village, CT, treasure that has been celebrating live performances for 93 years continues to charm … and to evolve. “We’ve brought some of the finest chamber music groups and legendary jazz musicians together for another great season,” offers artistic director Oskar […]

By |2022-08-02T16:52:03-04:00August 1st, 2022|Backstage, Main Street|
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