My Ears Have Been Opened by the Audio Play Explosion
Short, sharp and often funny, the work featured in the “Playing on Air” series can even make vacuuming a pleasure.
Bobby Cannavale in a reading of David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Crazy Eights,” part of the podcast and radio series “Playing on Air.”Credit.David Andrako, via “Playing on Air”
Jan. 12, 2021
Until a few weeks ago, I never listened to podcasts. I haven’t listened to the radio since my preteen Radio Disney years. I’m not even a big fan of music I turn to the same small playlist of songs, but even then, more than anything, I’m a fan of silence.
Playwright Aleshea Harris Awarded 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize
The Hermitage Artist Retreat (Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director and CEO), in collaboration with the Greenfield Foundation, has selected OBIE-winning playwright Aleshea Harris as the winner of the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, given this year in the artistic discipline of theater. Harris will receive a six-week residency at the Hermitage and a $30,000 commission for a new work, which will have its first public presentation in Sarasota in 2023 in collaboration with the Hermitage’s presenting partner, Asolo Repertory Theatre (Michael Donald Edwards, Producing Artistic Director).
The Hermitage’s Artistic Director Andy Sandberg notes that Harris was selected by a distinguished jury that included jury chair Mandy Greenfield1, a member of the Hermitage Curatorial Council and the Artistic Director of Williamstown Theater Festival (Massachussetts); Nataki Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
PITTSFIELD â Fourteen Berkshire County cultural nonprofits whose finances have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have received much-needed financial assistance from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
They are among the 183 cultural nonprofits across the state that have received almost $10 million in COVID relief through the Cultural Organization Economic Recovery Grant Program, administered by the council in partnership with the state Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development. The program is part of the Baker-Polito Administrationâs Economic Recovery Plan, Partnerships for Recovery.
The Berkshire-based cultural nonprofits combined received $864,700 in funding through the program. Five Berkshire nonprofits, Berkshire Theatre Group, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Shakespeare & Company and Williamstown Theatre Festival, each received $100,000. The Berkshire Bach Society of New Marlborough received $42,000.
“Animals” is the third play of the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s season recorded as an audio book. It is actually the first that make me realize how much
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