Monday, May 13, 2013
CHESTER — Vincent G. Dowling, a stage actor who had a decades-long association with Ireland’s national theater company, performed several times in the Reagan White House and founded The Miniature Theatre of Chester, died Friday, May 10, 2013. He was 83. Olwen O’Herlihy Dowling said her husband died …
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The reverberations of war affect soldiers, families, communities and entire nations, no matter what country, or in what decade the war occurs. Left in its wake, often, are difficult questions about how to heal, to help others and …
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
“This insightful and often moving 1981 show penned by Leonard Nimoy transcends the usual clichés surrounding the high-maintenance artist with the tortured relationship to his aural appendage,” writes The Los Angeles Times of “Vincent,” a play by the …
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
In the midst of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, memorials to those from Amherst who served, including 21 black soldiers, are expected to be installed in Town Hall by the end of the year. Town Manager John Musante said that plans to put the marble memorials …
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Debra Dunphy calls herself an experimental artist and says she has not yet found her niche (although, she admits, she’s not really looking for one). She paints landscapes, still lifes and anything else that strikes her fancy, in …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Several years ago, actor and theater producer Jeannine Haas and comedian Julie Waggoner had such a good time on the set of New Century Theater’s “House of Blue Leaves,” in which they played a pair of beer-drinking nuns, …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Listen to the stories of 10 people about their relationships with the Vietnam War — told through the voices of 10 local actors. Their experiences have been compiled in a new documentary play, “The Draft,” based on a book by Thomas Weiner of Northampton: “Called to Serve: Stories …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Inaugurated by Claire Maurey, an instructor at East Street Ballet in Hadley and a former member of the National Ballet of Canada, The Movery is a new, six-member troupe dedicated to “bringing contemporary dance to the Pioneer Valley …
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Last fall, Dawn Siebel gave herself a homework assignment. The longtime painter had wrapped up a project that had consumed her for several years — painting small portraits of all 343 firefighters who died on 9/11 — and …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
NEW YORK — The Tony Awards committee largely favored tried-and-true stage veterans over flashy visitors Tuesday when announcing this year’s Tony nominations, with Hollywood stars such as Bette Midler, Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes and Scarlett Johansson …