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Critics Jacquinn Sinclair and Ed Siegel take a look at the Berkshires season, including a new "Cabaret" at Barrington Stage Company, a great Edvard Munch exhibit at the Clark Art Institute, eclecticism at Jacob's Pillow and a visit to the site of W.E.B. DuBois' boyhood home.

The Bard of Avon is coming to Jamestown. With a twist. Actors from the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program will perform avant-garde Shakespearean plays this weekend at the Jamestown Arts Center, 18 Valley St. The two productions by the Tony Award-winning theater, in conjunction with the Ivy League university, will revisit and reimagine texts by the

Hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, residents of Pittsfield, and a few visitors, offered mixed views of the decision.

LENOX — It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood Saturday — William Shakespeare’s neighborhood at Shakespeare & Company — for the official launch of the theater company’s brand new outdoor venue, The New Spruce Theatre. For openers, the sky was crystal blue and clear. The sun shone brightly on the fields that stretch below the Tina Packer Playhouse. A gentle breeze kept the atmosphere honest and comfortable. Signage was clear. Stripes were freshly painted in the parki...

LENOX — Very little is conventional about Emma Woodhouse, the eponymous would-be matchmaker heroine of Jane Austens fourth novel; the last to be published in her lifetime. Before she began writing "Emma," Austen famously described her as a heroine "no one but myself will much like."  Austen was wrong. Emma Woodhouse is one of Austens more popular characters. "Emma" has been adapted for the movies — eight times; and multiple times on television, the stage, YouTube. Now, its playwright...