Almost showtime: 33 Hawley, Northampton’s community arts center, is putting on its finishing touches
By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer It’s been a long run — but the finish line is now in view. The Northampton Community Arts Trust building, largely or partly shuttered for most of this year, is poised to reopen, as work to make the final improvements in the...
Stagestruck: My Year of Zoom
In the Year of Covid, Zoom was a blessing – a marvel of the age, allowing face-to-face contact and online performance. But it was also a curse – and I spent a lot of time cursing at it. Over the year, the drawbacks did constant battle with the benefits.
Cover story: Live at Last – Area theaters step back onstage
It’s been over a year since COVID-19 shut down theaters across the world, and performing artists are aching to get back onstage with a live audience. Now, a few theaters in the Valley and Berkshires are planning in-person summer performances, indoors and out.
Stagestruck: Sojourners in the Bardo
Imagine that you suddenly find yourself in a weird netherworld, suspended between the life you knew and an uncertain future. No, wait. You don’t have to imagine it – it’s the place we’ve all found ourselves in for the past year. In “The Waiting Room,” Silverthorne Theater seeks to enlist the audience in an act of collaboration with a key pandemic player.
Stagestruck: Letters to Kamala
The election of Kamala Harris as the first woman Vice President of the United States, as well as the first African American and the first of South Asian descent, is cause for celebration. But those “firsts” don’t sit quite comfortably with the three women of color in a new play, “Letters to Kamala.” These ladies are pissed.
Stagestruck: A ‘Caesar’ for Our Time
This production takes a hyper-modern, politically savvy swipe at the militarist, toxically masculinist, authoritarian, elite-driven culture of this political moment – and at the ghosts, the women’s voices, the supernatural warnings, that have been repressed and suppressed for too long.
A Great Ride: Narkewicz, Morse reflect on a decade in office
Alex Morse has a new pup — a goldendoodle that answers to Oliver. Can you say inseparable? The Holyoke mayor brought him home from Pennsylvania and claims that the quarantine has afforded him a bit more time to train the pooch. “It adds a bit of perspective,” says...
Advocate Events – 2/25/21
Smith College Museum of Art will host a series of programs this spring. Among them are:Black Futures, March 1, 7-8:30 p.m., online. Join Kimberly Drew ’12, Thelma Golden ’87, Jenna Wortham and Amanda Williams for a conversation about Drew and Wortham’s recently...
Pot at your doorstep
Freshly restocked with three new members, the Cannabis Control Commission is gearing up for a year that will include the implementation of recently-approved regulations that allow for home delivery of non-medical marijuana, continuing to press for legislation that...
Stagestruck with Chris Rohmann: Treading water: Theaters strive to stay afloat, as two go under
A year ago this week, I filed my review of a new play, “The Pitch,” which had just opened at the Majestic Theater in West Springfield. Two weeks later, COVID-19 closed the production (the run will resume once the theater is able to reopen). The following week, my...
Currently Open Local Dispensaries 2/25/21
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Q&A with Springfield Rapper Championxiii (with audio)
Twenty-three-year-old Springfield rapper Championxiii, has garnered quite the Internet following nearly overnight.
The V-Spot: Three-Way Nookie Rookie Needs Advice
“How do we get things started? How do you be a good threesome host? What are some rules we should set?”
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Stagestruck: Angles and Aliens — Three productions take a slanted view of our world
These are precarious days, observes Peter Schumann, founder and director of Bread & Puppet Theater. The social order, the democratic contract and the earth itself are tottering from unprecedented stresses. Bread & Puppet’s Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis,...
