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Season?s Creepings: A John Waters Christmas

Season?s Creepings: A John Waters Christmas

John Waters is a wicked Santa. Each year he pops up around America with a big familiar wink and an avuncular grin. But he wears a thin pencil mustache instead of a big white beard, and his bag of gifts is packed full of demented stories and bizarre anecdotes. The...
Stagestruck: Snarky Yule

Stagestruck: Snarky Yule

’T?is the season when theaters go into hibernation or pull out the Christmas shows. Two Western Mass. companies — Old Deerfield Productions and Berkshire Theatre Group — are staging A Christmas Carol this month, along with Hartford Stage’s...
A Festive Family

A Festive Family

Home for the Holidays is more than the Theater Project’s annual holiday-season variety show. It represents a homecoming for area performers who have become a kind of family on the Majestic Theater stage over the years. An updated evocation of those sweater-clad...
Gilded Memories

Gilded Memories

The Mount, Edith Wharton’s summer home in Lenox, is now a museum that preserves memories of her Gilded Age life and times. When Shakespeare & Company shared the premises with the Wharton Restoration, the troupe staged original dramatic adaptations of her...
Bittersweet Seasoning

Bittersweet Seasoning

The annual performance of Sandglass Theater’s signature work is more than a tradition. Autumn Portraits captures the very spirit of this bittersweet season with a series of poignant cameos portraying moments in the “autumn” of life. Eric Bass has been performing his...