StageStruck: Looking at Mortality

StageStruck: Looking at Mortality

This is a big year for playwright/poet/teacher/activist Magdalena Gomez, who has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors in the past few months. For example: Teatro V!da, the Springfield-based youth theater company she founded, was named 2010 Outstanding Arts...
Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

In this time of economic uncertainty, when a lot of theaters are sticking with the tried and true, Chester Theatre Company is going for something untried and new for them. Three-quarters of the company’s four-play season will be given to Arlene Hutton’s...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Cut Subsidies for “Bioenergy” Our coalition applauds this week’s decision by the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee to slash Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) funding for 2012. The U.S. Department of...

Yay or Nay on Biomass

As if last week’s meeting of the Springfield City Council to consider rescinding the permit for a controversial wood-burning power plant in the city wasn’t already heavy with import—about the public health and environmental implications, the effects...

Between the Lines: Mommie Darkest

Here are some reasons you might know of Ayelet Waldman: She’s the author of a number of well-received novels, including, most recently, the absorbing Red Hook Road, about the effects on two families when a young bride and groom are killed in a wedding-day limo...