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Arts / Theater / Dance

Northampton Center for the Arts.
KEVIN GUTTING

Photo Gallery: Old friend

Thursday, May 23, 2013

The windows of the Northampton Center for the Arts’ Bart J. Gordon Performance Hall, aka “the ballroom,” offer a commanding view of State, Main and Elm streets, including this wavy visage of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church. Some of the panes, rippled with age, may be from the building’s original incarnation as Northampton High School in the early 1900s. After nearly 30 years at the corner of Elm and New South streets, the center is set to move out; its last scheduled event will be a figure-drawing class on Wednesday. I’ve had a love/hate relationship photographing in this space for more than half … 0

Painter Gregory Stone seeks to turn bad news into beauty

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

A few days after tornadoes hit Springfield June 1, 2011, painter Gregory Stone drove to the west bank of the Connecticut River to find the place a water spout had been captured on video. Stone saw mangled guardrails. They told him he was standing where spinning winds that seemed to toy with the … 0

'Fahrenheit 451' at Northampton High School 

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

A student-led production of “Fahrenheit 451” based on Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel, opens Thursday at 7 p.m. at Northampton High School’s Black Box Theater. The show is directed by NHS senior Ian McKenna-Donnelly, produced by senior Eliana Zimmerman and features live original music. Sophomores Connor Paradis and Eliza Moss-Horwitz play the leads, … 0