StageStruck: Sarah Ruhls

StageStruck: Sarah Ruhls

This year, I’ve seen over 100 plays by over 100 playwrights living and dead, conventional and experimental, brilliant and not-so. One dramatist has grabbed my attention more than any other, and not only because more of her plays have been performed around here...
StageStruck: The Crash

StageStruck: The Crash

The other night I had the pleasure of dining out with three accomplished women of the Valley’s theater community: Jeannine Haas, artistic director of Pauline Productions, Linda McInerney, artistic director of Old Deerfield Productions, and Linda Putnam, a widely...

H&H: We Remember

Died September 1: Doug Kohl, a Northampton developer who cared about the quality of the neighborhoods he built and listened to the concerns of everyone with a stake in his projects. Not just a McMansion builder, he created resident-friendly co-housing projects as well...

Imperium Watch: Gas Guzzling Slows Down

Some good news at year’s end: American cars may never again be sucking up gas the way they have for the last 70 years. Government and industry agree on that. One analyst with Deutschebank predicts that by 2030 our gas consumption will be down to 1969 levels (5.4...