One Sweet Festival

One Sweet Festival

Each spring, the reawakening of the region’s maple trees serves as inspiration for an intergenerational “celebration of sap” in Shelburne Falls. The fourth annual Syrup performing arts festival fills this weekend with music, theater, dance and...

Beauty Is?

Maureen is overweight and single, her sister Sheila is slim and married, and neither of them is getting any younger. Maureen uses self-deprecating humor to mask her insecurities, while Sheila depends on cosmetic surgery. In Jon Lonoff’s romantic comedy Skin...
StageStruck: Baryshnikov, Earthbound

StageStruck: Baryshnikov, Earthbound

You’d think Man in a Case would be exactly the wrong vehicle for Mikhail Baryshnikov. Here is a man we associate, above all, with acrobatic physicality, weightless grace and a history of fearless boundary-breaking, playing a man obsessed with rules and decorum,...
StageStruck: An Epic Collaboration

StageStruck: An Epic Collaboration

“This is the first time in six years I’ve directed a production that’s stayed in one space the entire time,” says Jonathan Diamond. He is referring to his truly epic stage version of The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings prequel....
Adam and Steve

Adam and Steve

Despite the oft-recited adage of the anti-gay contingent, sometimes it really is Adam and Steve, not Adam and Eve. That’s the case with PVPA’s production of The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, which follows the couples Adam and Steve and Jane and Mabel from...