Fringe Benefits

Fringe Benefits

It’s not only about the performances, says Linda McInerney, producer of this weekend’s Double Take Fringe Festival in Greenfield. It’s about spinning and knotting threads of community, about arts-based economic revitalization, about reclaiming public...
Barefoot in the Park at the Majestic

Barefoot in the Park at the Majestic

The Majestic Theater presents Barefoot in the Park, the classic Neil Simon play, directed by Rand Foerster. See www.majestictheater.com for tickets and showtimes. Nov. 22-28, $19-28, Majestic Theater, 131 Elm St., West Springfield, (413) 747-7797.
StageStruck: The Tempest, Twice-told

StageStruck: The Tempest, Twice-told

In Shakespeare’s Tempest, the magician Prospero conjures up a storm that shipwrecks his enemies on the island where they marooned him years ago. In Kidd Pivot’s Tempest Replica, Prospero carefully folds a paper boat and gives it to his servant spirit,...
StageStruck: Double Take-aways

StageStruck: Double Take-aways

A couple of weeks ago in these pages, I wrote about the then-upcoming Double Take Fringe Festival in Greenfield. Held over the weekend of Nov. 9-10, it was a two-day potpourri of short performances staged in a variety of venues all over downtown, showcasing the...
Stage: Plucky Princess

Stage: Plucky Princess

She’s not a real princess, but Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic tale of a little rich girl, thrust into poverty and servitude when her father suddenly dies broke, has all the ingredients of a Cinderella story. Sara Crewe: A Little Princess is the...