Podcast: Bassist Avery Sharpe talks about his piece ‘400’
He and his band will perform the piece at UMass later this month.
The V-Spot: My Libido’s Got the Post-Birth Blues
What parts of sex help you feel most connected, Mama? Is it the pillowtalk afterwards? The intimacy and flirting before?
Stagestruck: Not Your Granddad’s College Theater
“What am I bid for this fine specimen of white manhood?” The swaggering black auctioneer scans the audience of prospective buyers, who quickly bid the price up, until the white man on the auction block goes to the jubilant winner for a fat five-figure sum. This...
Stagestruck: Texas Tough & Tangy
Barack Obama and Ann Richards both sprang to national prominence with sensational speeches at a Democratic National Convention. Richards’ came in 1988, and she used the opportunity to pitch her unique brand of tough-minded common-sense liberalism and kick sand on the...
Stagestruck: “Hir” and Now
Playwright Taylor Mac has described Hir as “a kitchen-sink drama.” Which is fair, as long as you understand that the sink in question is full of filthy dishes and fresh vomit. The genre- and gender-bending play, at Shakespeare & Company through October 7, begins...
Stagestruck: Eight Shows for the Price of Two
This weekend and next, two theater companies demonstrate, once again, the breadth and variety of Valley stages. In Greenfield, Silverthorne Theater Company opens a two-week run of “six unruly comedies” by America’s cheekiest stage satirist, Christopher Durang. In...
Stagestruck: Hometown Tales & Terrors
Walk down Main Street in any small American town and look around. There are the unassuming shopfronts and placid homes, holding private, ordinary lives. But behind the doors lie extraordinary secrets and dreams. Three plays this weekend in our not-so-ordinary Valley...
Basemental: Pussyvision Debuts Self-Release, Replicate
Replicate sounds like a Disney movie put through a meat-grinder — juxtaposing electronic pop with barren experimental noise.
Monte Belmonte Wines: Day Drinking – Solving The Problems of the World
Is day drinking wine advisable for everyone? Of course not. If you are under 21, if you are taking it one day at a time, if don’t have the kind of job that affords you the flexibility to be gone from it for two to three hours at a time for lunch, or if your ideas to solve the problems of the world are terrible ideas, day drinking is not for you.
The V-Spot: Is a Good Lay The ONE?
Whoa now, let’s not go confusing great sex with great relationship potential. Easy to do? Oh yeah. Fun to do? You betchya. Going to end well? Notttt likely.
Cinemadope: Hollywood Hilltown — A small town with a big festival
The town has always been the sort of tight-knit place that makes its own fun. But for the last eleven years, one event has brought the townspeople together like no other: the annual Ashfield Film Festival.
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On Stage: Where War Meets Food and Music
In this stage drama, Iraq war veteran Elliott is in Jordan to film a war movie and finds himself connecting with his co-star Shar against the backdrop of the Arab Spring.
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“Nice Work” is O.K.!
They just don’t make musicals like they used to. Except when they do. Nice Work If You Can Get It, playing at the Bushnell in Hartford through February 8th, is a 1920s musical that premiered on Broadway in 2012. It was whipped up by Joe DiPietro from the skeleton of a...
