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By STEVE PFARRER

What do Vladimir Mayakovsky, a celebrated poet and playwright of the early years of the Soviet Union, and Sherlock Holmes have in common?Pretty much nothing, it would seem – except both appear in “Hope I Die Before I Get Old,” a one-man play in which...

By Steve Pfarrer

At first glance, it looked like a scene from a typical day at Amherst College: about 100 students sat in a lecture hall, on tiered seating on three sides of the room, notebooks and digital devices like iPads at hand, while a professor stood in the...

By LAWRENCE B. SIDDALL

Until recently, I knew little about the super sleuth Sherlock Holmes, and even less about his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. As an adolescent, I was captivated by his amazing tales, but soon my interests changed and my reading shifted to other...