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Like a wandering medieval troubadour, Revels North hasn’t really had a place to call home.In an effort to put the nonprofit arts organization on firmer footing, Revels North’s leadership is kicking off a campaign to raise $400,000 to buy a...

The distance from Strafford to Hollywood is almost unthinkably vast, at least in social terms. People who go to the former often are fleeing everything the latter represents.That was true of Austen Earl’s parents.“Both of them were kind of hippies who...

The distance from Strafford to Hollywood is almost unthinkably vast, at least in social terms. People who go to the former often are fleeing everything the latter represents.That was true of Austen Earl’s parents.“Both of them were kind of hippies who...

During her upbringing in the Netherlands, Ria Blaas didn’t have Bertolt Brecht on her reading list.Come to think of it, who does? Even among theater aficionados, Brecht seldom rises to the top of the list when a season series is assembled.“He’s not...

Over the last several years, Barnard native Chloe Powell has made a niche out of bringing the world to her small town.She started the music series at Feast & Field, Barnard’s well-loved summer farmers market. She regularly brings in not only the cream...

The late Joan Didion published hundreds of thousands of words but is likely still best known for a single short sentence: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” The weight of that line varies depending on the circumstances of the storyteller....

Tommy Crawford has become known for his work as both an actor and a musician. That mix of theater and song has been with him pretty much from the start.Theater exposed him to music in the public schools of Montclair, N.J., where he grew up. He picked...

Steve LeBlanc began writing “The Silenced Lyre,” an original musical based on the classic Russian novel “Eugene Onegin,” over 20 years ago.His interest in Russian literature was sparked in high school after reading Dostoevsky’s 1880 novel “The...

James Graham first picked up a guitar at 14 and has played music ever since. Writing songs gives voice to his inner life.“I think (for) most people (who) come to the singer-songwriter thing is, it’s a refuge when you’re a kid,” Graham said in a recent...

Even before it was a Christian holiday, Easter was a time of rebirth. Perhaps in that spirit, though more likely because it’s warming up, there are a lot of vibrant arts events taking place around the Upper Valley over the next few days. Rather than...