Get to the Woodshed

What can you do with lots of stuff? Create like crazy for five days!
That’s the inspiration behind MCLA Gallery 51’s latest exhibit, “Woodshed II: The Next Hundred Hours” in North Adams. (It’s a sequel to the first “Woodshed” two years ago.)
Some 40 artists took the idea of collage to inspired heights that range from video, [...]

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Everything in Act One

Main Street Stage is hosting  series of one-act plays culled from its recent comptition.
There are apparently plenty of aspiring playwrights in the are because the nonproft theater was deluged with 60 scripts! The best are being produced over the past two weekends.
There’s still Friday and Saturday, Jan. 30 and 31, to catch a rising writer [...]

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Do the Time Warp!

The granddaddy of interactive film, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” returns to Images Cinema in Williamstown at midnight tonight as part of the Williams College Queer Film Festival. Audiences come armed with props and dressed in costumes from the film, and are encouraged to yell out dialogue and respond to the movie’s over-the-top acting [...]

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Coffee & Art, Together Again

Thor Wickstrom, a local artist, informs us he’s showing some of his works at the Cup & Saucer, the popular coffeehouse on Main Street in North Adams and one of the many local businesses that have embraced the cultural fervor that’s infected the state’s smallest city.
“I sketch there a lot, because I enjoy getting out [...]

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