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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

Shakespeare & Company Presents Stephan Wolfert’s Cry Havoc Shakespeare & Company presents Cry Havoc, Stephan Wolfert’s one-person play that unites veterans with civilians and Sha…

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Friday, August 7, 2015

Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

WAM’s Fresh Takes Showcases a Pulitzer Prize Winner WAM Theatre presents a staged-reading of the Pulitzer prize-winning Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes, as its next event in…

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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Review: “Bells Are Ringing” at Berkshire Theatre Group by Westfield Newsroom

PITTSFIELD – Those late great Broadway writers Betty Comden and Adolph Green have enjoyed a banner year this season. Their first musical collaboration with Leonard Bernstein and Jerome…

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Monday, July 6, 2015

Review: “Deathtrap” at Berkshire Theatre Group by Westfield Newsroom

STOCKBRIDGE – Ira Levin’s comedy thriller Deathtrap opens the Berkshire Theatre Group’s summer season at the Fitzpatrick Main Stage in Stockbridge. A record breaker as Broadway’s…

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Monday, June 29, 2015

Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

“Deathtrap” Set to Thrill Stockbridge The Berkshire Theatre Group presents Ira Levin’s Tony Award-nominated Deathtrap (July 1-25) at its Stockbridge campus. A record holder for Broadwa…

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

On The Road to The Berkshires You may think of The Berkshires as New England’s cultural mecca. Between the theatre offerings at Berkshire Theatre Group, Barrington Stage, and Williamstown;…

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Review: “Kinky Boots” at The Bushnell by Westfield Newsroom

HARTFORD – Kinky Boots has all the right elements of a Broadway blockbuster: a solid book by Harvey Fierstein, a rousing score by pop songstress Cyndi Lauper in her Broadway debut, bri…

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

The Harvey “Girls” Two Broadway blockbusters, both based on obscure foreign films, come to area stages this month, and both feature scripts by legendary Broadway baby Harvey Fierstein. (…

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Friday, May 29, 2015

VICTORY CELEBRATION: BERKSHIRE PULSE 10th ANNIVERSARY by Westfield Newsroom

Great Barrington, Mass.  — Berkshire Pulse, the dance and performing arts education center located in downtown Housatonic, hosts its special 10th Anniversary Performance and Gala Celebrat…

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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

Another Opening, Another Show Hartford Stage Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak will helm Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate”, his first musical since winning the 2014 Tony Award for Best Dire…

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Monday, May 4, 2015

Review: Goodspeed Guys and Dolls by Westfield Newsroom

By Mark G. Auerbach Goodspeed Musicals presents “Guys and Dolls”. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. Book by Jo Sweling and Abe Burrows based on the stories and characters of Dam…

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Theatrical collaboration a ‘win-win’ for Westfield State and WVTHS by Westfield Newsroom

WESTFIELD – Westfield State University and Westfield Vocational Technical High School (WVTHS) have teamed up for the third consecutive year, this time to produce sets pieces for the un…

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Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

From Times Square and Shubert Alley to the Ringstrasse and Schubertstrasse, April showers us with great tunes from Broadway’s “Guys and Dolls” and Vienna’s great classical composers.…

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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Review: “The Pianist of Willesden Lane” at Hartford Stage by Westfield Newsroom

HARTFORD, Conn. – Mona Golabek is an accomplished pianist, actor, author, radio host, storyteller, and a child of a Holocaust survivor. Her mother, the pianist Lisa Jura was a child pr…

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

Every Ten Minutes, A New Play Begins… Barrington Stage Company presents its “10×10” play festival, February 13 through March 12, at the St. Germain Stage on Linden Street in P…

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

The First Ever Twain On Stage Festival Mark Twain, the famous American author and humorist, best known for his books “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn” will be featured in a festiva…

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

2014 State of The Arts We’re Broadway’s Content Provider Western New England has given Broadway an ongoing slate of plays and musicals. Hartford Stage and its director Darko Tresnjak too…

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

“A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas” Brings Holiday Spirits to Hartford Stage by Westfield Newsroom

HARTFORD – “Since its Hartford Stage debut in 1998, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas” has become a Hartford holiday tradition, beloved by critics…

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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Review: Barrington Stage sends a helluva town a helluva hit by Westfield Newsroom

NEW YORK, NY – Barrington Stage’s summer of 2013 hit, “On The Town” has been retooled for Broadway, and the Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolph Green/Jerome Robbins hit of 1944…

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Friday, October 31, 2014

WHS freshman to perform live onstage by Westfield Newsroom

SPRINGFIELD  – As part of a national campaign being conducted in 20 US cities thus far, five Broadway stars gave away the chance to join them on stage in Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Br…

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Arts Beat by Westfield Newsroom

Broadway Here and There Broadway’s Blockbuster Returns to Hartford “Wicked”, the Broadway blockbuster, makes a return visit to The Bushnell in Hartford (November 5-23). Based on Gregor…

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