Indigent Larva

This summer I’ve accepted a challenge: I’m spending a few weeks with unscheduled children. I’ve never had this extended “opportunity” before because I’ve always been occupied so the children have gone to summer camps. One of the...

Jacob's Pillow Eclectic

“The Vinegar Works” began with an in-joke for PBS viewers: a recitation of Edward Gorey’s ghoulish alphabet poem “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” (“A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil assaulted by bears…”)...
New Comedy 2-nite

New Comedy 2-nite

You’d think two sets of identical twins running around Ephesus, mixing up everything and everybody, was crazy enough. But in Brianna Sloane’s production of The Comedy of Errors for Hampshire Shakespeare Company, that mixup does an additional 180. All the...
Breaking Boundaries

Breaking Boundaries

The country’s oldest dance festival is still acting like a youngster. This summer’s lineup of over 350 performances and other events at Jacob’s Pillow includes hip-hop, innovative tap, interdisciplinary experiments and other boundary-breaking...

From Our Readers

Sleazy Pols Push Casinos Thanks for the article on Steve Abdow and casinos (“Casino Thrills and Chills,” June 26, 2014). I hope voters in Massachusetts will see through the millions of dollars of glossy ads bought by the casino industry and send it...