Stagestruck: From Silver Screen to Holiday Stage
Two shows based on classic holiday movies are brightening area stages this season. In Pittsfield, Berkshire Theatre Group offers the stage adaptation of the 1954 blockbuster “White Christmas,” and Hartford Stage Company has moved “It’s a Wonderful Life” into an old-time radio studio.
Stagestruck: Eye of the Storm
Nilaja Sun is, quite simply, the most exciting solo performer I’ve ever seen. She’s a small, wiry woman whose expansive presence fills a stage. Drawing on an astonishing talent for physical and vocal mimicry, her pieces are fully formed plays that bring to life a multitude of vibrant, funny, flawed human beings. She’s bringing her latest, Pike St., to the Academy of Music.
Podcast: Javier Luengo-Garrido of ACLU Massachusetts on Greenfield’s Safe City vote
Massachusetts is behind other states in immigrant rights.
The V-Spot: Am I Only Bisexual When I’m Drunk?
When I’m drunk I’m down for anything!
Free Will Astrology: Are you ready to be transformed by love, Leo?
The Season of Love is coming.
Sam Crocker on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Sam Crocker is a teen songwriter from Bernardston who plays introspective acoustic indie folk rock.
Bizarro Brief Podcast: Turkey attacks in New Jersey, a mac-and-cheese turkey recipe, a gender reveal gone wrong
A week of weird news, in podcast form.
Letters to the Editor: What you can do about the climate crisis
The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act is the best hope for stopping carbon pollution.
Podcast: Bassist Avery Sharpe talks about his piece ‘400’
He and his band will perform the piece at UMass later this month.
Staff Picks: Ona Canoa, Zoë Darrow, Mandolin Orange, (Sandy) Alex G
Advocate Sessions alumni and folk trio Ona Canoa will be releasing their first record this Saturday, a debut extended play (EP) titled “Good Dream.”
Valley Show Girl: Connecting the Living with the Dead
Shyu is a multilingual vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and has a background in ballet.
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Pick of the Day 7/10: Whisper and Shout at Amherst Cinema
A documentary that explores the East German rock music scene in the late 1980s.
Digital, Digital Get Down
As their virginal white megastores suggest, Apple doesn't condone "overtly sexual content" in its 500,000+ iPhone Apps. However, searching for the term "sex" reveals plenty of tired Cosmo-inspired position guides and boobie pictorials in the App Store. Want an...
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Stagestruck: Diversifying Nostalgia in Western Mass Theater
Two shows this weekend hit the nostalgia nerve from contrary angles.











