Town Players Open Season With The Lion in Winter
Pittsfield Town Players begin their fourth season October 23 with The Lion in Winter by James Goldman at the Berkshire Museum. Roberta Sisson directs, fresh from award winning work, as the troupe plans two more productions through May with dates, tickets, and group rates noted for the museum presented season.
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Town Players
the Lion
Pittsfield Town Players
James Goldman
Katharine Hepburn
Roberta Sisson
Tee Pee
Little Mary Sunshine
Berkshire Museum
Town ‘Players
Berkshire Community College
Tor
Smoky Mountain
United States
Walter Sisson
Tamiroff Dismisses Russian Typecasting in Hollywood
Akim Tamiroff, who plays a Mexican bandit gang leader in The Great Bank Robbery for Warner Bros Seven Arts, recalls arriving in Hollywood typed as Russian for his accent. He fought to erase that image and has since played diverse roles from Chinese war lords to Chicago gangsters.
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Hollywood
Akim Tamiroff
Warner Bros.Seven Arts
Chicago
Endless American Study Abroad Tradition Across Centuries
The story traces Americans studying in Europe from Benjamin West to Louis Moreau Gottschalk and beyond. It notes the rise of European training then the later opening of U S and international scholarships, including the Prix de Rome and Guggenheim, plus Fulbright and other exchange programs. It argues scholarly exchange grows despite past prejudices, with nations benefiting from mutual stimulation and benevolence.
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Vienna
Beethoven
Europe
Benjamin West
Britain
Royal Academy
Joshua Reynolds
West
Springfield
William Williams
America
Williams
Mr. Penrose
Penrose
Seaman
London
John Singleton Copley
Charles Willson Peale
Gilbert Stuart
Samuel F. B. Morse
Robert Fulton
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Longfellow
Edward Everett
Everett
Harvard
Institut de France
Academie Des Beaux Arts
Villa Medici
Berlioz
Gounod
Bizet
Massenet
Debussy
Cecil Rhodes
Oxford
U.S.A
Sen. Simon Guggenheim
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
United States
Philippines
Canada
British Caribbean
Sen. Fulbright
Leonard Bernstein
Samuel Johnson
Feature Film Made Here Draws Rave From Variety
A Pittsfield produced film titled The Honeymoon Killers formerly Dear Martha earned high praise from Variety calling it the sleeper of the year. Warren Steibel and Leonard Kastle produced and directed the Berkshire County shoot with scenes at Berkshire Medical Center City Hall and Onota Lake.
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Pittsfield
Variety
Show Business Weekly
Martha
Warren Steibel
Leonard Kastle
New Lebanon Center
N.Y
Mr. Steibel
William Buckley
Mr. Kastle
Movie Timetable Summary for Capitol and Area Theaters
A dense list of showtimes across multiple venues including Capitol Palace Showcase Paris Sunset Drive-In Berkshire Drive-In Pittsfield Drive-In Coury’s Drive-In Hoosac Drive-In Mohawk West Springfield Cinema 1 2 3, with films such as Me Natalie The Italian Job Dr Zhivago The Great Bank Robbery The Green Berets Hell’s Angels 1969 Barbarella Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting A Fine Pair Midnight Cowboy Oliver and more, with matinees on Wednesdays Saturdays and Sundays and various evening starts.
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Sisson Directs
Howard Richardson
William Berney
Marion T. Bruni
Miss Bruni
Dial
Blarney Room
New Ashford
Mass
Green Beret Fireside
Cheshire Road
Lanesboro
Smorgasboro
Albany
Web
Thurs
Sun
Turk
the Party Cats
Patty Duke
Natalie
Atour de Force
Aly
Patty Duke Cotor
DeLure
Rod Steiger
Claire Bloom
Judy Geeson
Heston
Panavision
Paramount Picture
Michael Caine
David
Henmings
CLYDE
Mbulltt
Department
CST Se
Hell's Angels
LAS
Las Vegas
American International Pictures
I Stern
Jeremy Slate
Conny van Dyke
Steve Sandor
Berkey Pathe Fasse
Rene
S@NNY BARGER
Terry the Tramp
Oakland
Steamship
Chicken Cacciatore
Wendell Packard
Eagle’s Nest
Pittsfield-Lenox Rd
Riverdale RD
Wien
Een
Rive
Sat
Oliver Child
OFG Academy
Rocker
Ere Sq
Zhivago
Midnight Cowboy
PVU My Vy
David Wayne Janssen
Zero Mostel
Kim Novak
Clint Walker
Maan
sTry Theatre
Usznrill 80
Dalton Aves
Mimieux
Cireseoper Jones
al _SaaniC
Nan Martin
CiShrewd
Freedom
United States of America
New Freedom Shares
U.S
Treasury Department
Advertising Cawnes
RED Cross
New Lebanon
Great Barrington
Capitol
Palace
Paris
Dr. Zhivago
Sunset Drive-In
Berkshire
Hell’s Angels
Coury
North Adams
Hoosac Drive-In
Adams
West Springfield
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