Roundhouse closes half way through summer stock run
The Roundhouse theatre in Manchester ends its summer stock season after failing to draw enough audiences from Rutland Bennington and tourists to cover fixed costs. The venue will continue as a live music night spot Thursday through Saturday and plans a ski season, with renewed summer stock plans and new companies to return, proving there is no business like show business.
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Manchester
Judy Garland
Gene Kelly
Roundhouse
Rutland
Bennington
Winds of fashion shift women in detective fiction
New York critics note women in mysteries are no longer mere props as editors and authors push for fuller female characters. Norah Mulcahaney, a New York City detective, and authors like Hillary Waugh illustrate stronger, more independent female protagonists while editors warn progress lags behind social change.
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New York
Dashiell Hammett
Dial
Lillian O'Donnell
New York City
Norah Mulcahaney
Mulcahaney
al Gregory
Gregory
Marcia Magill
Putnam’s
Joan Kahn
Harper & Row
Hillary Waugh
The
Mystery Writers of America
Parrish
Waugh
James 0. Wade
David McKay
Lee Wright
Random House
Miss Kahn
Agatha Christie
Dorothy Sayers
Miss Jane Marple
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Adams
Miss Pinkerton
Mignon G. Eberhart
Sarah Keate
Mrs. Eberhart
Dorothy Uhnak
Christie Opara
Williamstown Second Company offers seven plays in 53 hours
The Williamstown Theatre Festival announces its Second Company will present a three day seven play repertory from August 17 to 19 at Pine Cobble School. The lineup includes Boom Boom Room The Legends of King Arthur The Kramer Icarus Mother Camino Real Twelfth Night and Mandragola. Seats are limited and patrons should arrive 20 minutes before curtain.
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Mass
Pine Cobble School
Bill Ludel
Harold de Felice
Bf Ae
David Rabe
Mark Medoff
the Kramer
Sam Shepard
Icarus
Tennessee Williams
Shakespeare
Machiavelli
Twin Cinemas Hosts Multiple New Releases This Week
George C. Scott stars in Bankshot at Twin Cinemas I with a robbers plot. Cinema II features The Parallax View with Warren Beatty, both rated R. The Tamarind Seed with Omar Sharif and Julie Andrews, rated PG, is shown in the first area. Chinatown with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway is praised for performances. Spies and thrillers SPY S and Sleuth play at the local drive-in, while Thunderbolt and Lightfoot stars Clint Eastwood. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex leads as the week’s top pick, rated R. For times, call the listed numbers.
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Twin Cinemas
George C. Scott
Bankshot
Cinema II
Warren Beatty
Manchester
Jack Nicholson
Faye Dunaway
John Huston
Chinatown
Roman Polanski
North Hoosick
N.Y
Clint Eastwood
Woody Allen
Zany Allen
Old Vienna in music at the SPAC
Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart headline at Saratoga Performing Arts Center tonight at 8 with Franz Allers conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. The program features Mozart Mahler and works by Richard and Johann Strauss Lehar and Schubert, celebrating Vienna the City of Music.
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N.Y
Evelyn Lear
Thomas Stewart
Old Vienna
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Franz Allers
Philadelphia
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Saratoga
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Mahler
Richard
Johann Strauss
Lehar
Schubert
Bayreuth
Stewart
Chicago
Chicago Sun Times
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Lulu
Miss Lear
Marie
Berg
Wein
Schoenberg
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Aaron Copland
Rodeo
Williamstown Cast Announced for Private Lives
Williamstown Theater Festival reveals the cast for Noel Coward’s Private Lives running Aug 20 24 with matinees Aug 22 and Aug 24. Virginia Vestoff John Cunningham Anne Twomey and David Ackroyd headline a quartet of Broadway veterans directed by Nikos Psacharopoulos.
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Mass
Noel Coward
Nikos Psacharopoulos
Big House Bike Day at Park McCullough House
North Bennington hosts a Big House Bike Day on Sunday August 25 featuring a graded bicycle tour series a lawn picnic and a safety and maintenance clinic for riders of all ages and abilities. All cyclists welcome with a parent for very young riders sandwiches and drinks will be sold on the mansion lawn. Further details to follow.
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Park-McCullough House Association
North Bennington
Local musician to perform violin recital Sunday at Big House
Cynthia Jordan, Bennington native and Eastman School of Music student, will present a violin recital Sunday at 8 15 p m in the Park McCullough House North Bennington. The program features Mozart Hindemith sonatas and a Bach Partita with Petie Palmer as accompanist. The free event is open to the public.
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North Bennington
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
The
Eastman School of Music
Rochester, N.Y
Berkshire Symphony
All-State
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Eileen Carrier
Julius Heggs
Eastman
Zui Zeitlin
Mozart
Hindemith
Bach
Petie Palmer
Ms. Jordan
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