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A Halloween basket of goodies in the area this weekend and next – from ghost stories imagined and real, to plays witchy and weird,...

For years now, the Academy of Music in Northampton has played host to the annual KidsBestFest film festival. It’s a free week-long event (donations...

I usually find Double Edge Theatre on their home turf — at The Farm in rural Ashfield — where they live and work and, every...

I had a theater-going “double feature” planned for last weekend – two outdoor shows in a row with adventurous Berkshire-based companies. But those plans...

Just across from one of my favorite writing spots — the window counter at Northampton Coffee — I can see a dark mark on...

How’s this for genre mashups: Brontë gothic in which two of the characters are animals. Wildean romcom in which all the actors are women....

The first time Northampton Police Officer Adam Van Buskirk participated in the RX Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit two years ago, he returned to...

Street Smarts Hampshire College, Holyoke Community College, and Smith College host visits this week from community activist Iris Morales, who rose to prominence in the Vietnam...

Two elder ensembles are this week’s headliners.  The Berkshire-based WAM Theatre has just announced its plans for a troupe of women over 65, and...