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“This ain't Uncle Stevie's swan song.”
So promises Stephen Stearns, founder of New England Youth Theatre (NEYT), who wants to make it clear that while he is stepping down as artistic director, he's not heading out the door.
Now 70, Stearns is handing off his administrative responsibilities to free up time to write about his life's work - and to pour more into NEYT as a teacher, director, and board member.
He also will work with alumni to develop a new generation of teachers so future students here can learn the fundamentals he founded the organization with in 1998.
Artist Jim Giddings retired from Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) in December after serving 31 years as building manager and art handler. “Jim has had a longer association with the museum than any employee ever,” says BMAC Director Danny Lichtenfeld, who says he thought perhaps that greatest tribute...
Shela Linton did not experience racial prejudice until her first day in kindergarten. The child of mixed-race parents and with light-colored skin, she led a sheltered childhood until that moment she was pushed on the ground by her playmates who told her, “We don't want you to play with...
Although it was formed a few years ago, it took some time for the Brattleboro-based Intrinsic Beauty of Invisible Things (IBIT) Dance Company to mount a tour. This week, IBIT director Brenda Siegel, who co-founded the company with choreographer Amy Softic, said her company will try a three-date “mini-tour” in New England, with stops in Northampton, Mass. on Thursday, March 27, and Cambridge, Mass., on Friday, March 28, before returning to Brattleboro for a performance the Latchis Theatre on Saturday,
Learning to memorize and recite Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has been a rite of passage at the Greenwood School in Putney for 35 years. “The speech may be relatively short. It takes about two minutes to say. But memorizing it by heart poses a substantial challenge for our students, as it does for many others of the general public,” says Connie Evans, who long taught social studies at the boarding school for young men struggling with learning disabilities. More than...
Director Ben Stockman spent a good part of his free time last year reading. “I had been studying as many scripts of new plays as I could get my hands on,” he says. “I wanted to get a sense of what was being done now in theater, so I read play after play.” One of the best he found was a relatively unknown drama by Sarah Ruhl, which Apron Theater Co. has assigned him to direct. Beginning on Thursday, March...
Nationally acclaimed musician Scott Ainslie - a singer, songwriter, and master of the acoustic guitar, National slide guitar, fretless gourd banjo, and diddley bow - will perform “The Land Where the Blues Began: Music and Images of Mississippi Delta,” a benefit concert for the Friends of the Brooks Memorial Library. Ainslie, also a master storyteller, describes this event as a “teaching concert” and will accompany his music with archival photos, historical anecdotes, and personal stories about the Mississippi Delta region.
In 1995, Jodi Clark took a theater trip to London as a student at Marlboro College, and there she saw a performance of Tom Stoppard's intellectual comedy of manners, Arcadia. “I loved it,” Clark says, recalling that what struck her about the show “was the way the play could cover many complex intellectual thoughts and family issues in a simple, clear fashion. I always wanted to see what I could bring to this drama of ideas.” Clark finally gets her...
