Will Call

Pulitzer Prize-winning author continues to shine a bright light on an expanding crisis. Enrique’s Journey recounts the unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains, Enrique travels [...]

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Bennington, Vt., just half an hour away for much of NoCo, holds vast cultural appeal Bennington, Vt., is awash in the arts year round, and Autumn is a perfect time to enjoy all that this “must-visit” town has to offer. After listening to our conversation with Eric Peterson, Producing Director of Oldcastle Theatre Company, about “The Lion in Winter,” you’ll [...]

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Michelle Daly, Program Coordinator at MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center joins us to talk about the next spate of offerings from Downstreet Art, beginning Thursday, August 27. NORTH ADAMS, MASS. — DownStreet Art (DSA), a program of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ (MCLA) Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC), continues on Thursday, Aug. 27, with the third DownStreet Art Thursday of [...]

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Will Call talks with Lila Neugebauer about the American premier of “An Intervention” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival . AND Deirdre Flynn Sullivan joins us for our first Kids Lit Chat!   “An Intervention” Williamstown Theatre Festival; Nikos Stage August 12 – August 23 By Mike Bartlett Directed by Lila Neugebauer A whole lot of booze, a new girlfriend, and [...]

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Tinky Weisblat and Alice Parker get together for a night of smooth celebration of “Old Blue Eyes” Our great friend Tinky sees no reason not to tip her hat to Frank Sinatra in a big way. Besides creating a magical evening of memory through song with “To Be Perfectly Frank: A Sinatra Centennial Concert,” our favorite crooning foodie dishes out [...]

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Todd Reynolds and the Bang on a Can Festival, 2015 MASS MoCA, North Adams, Mass. This special presentation, “Present Music,” is an exploration of the Bang on a Can Festival, that takes place July 15–August 1 at MASS MoCA. This incredible series, launched in 1987, offers listeners the chance to enjoy innovative music performed in a setting that provides a [...]

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I love having my senses tested—really put through their paces. That’s just what “Van Gogh and Nature,” a painstakingly assembled collection on exhibit now at the Clark Art Institute, did to me last week. Although you have plenty of time to see this installation (Exhibit closes September 13, 2015), absorbing yourself in every brush stroke now, at the peak of [...]

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“Will Call” dropped in on Caitlin Sullivan, Artistic Director of the Williams College Summer Theatre Lab at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance. Caitlin, ’07, traces her roots back to the beginnings both of the Lab and the Center. Beginning this season, she is guiding the talents of Lab participants like rising senior Kimberly Golding, pictured above, who joined [...]

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Plus: North Adams Mayor Richard J. Alcombright shares some of his perspectives on the future of the City and region.   We spoke with the creators of this magnificent volume, Juliet Flynt, Steve Lawson, and Joan Zegras about “Many Stages—A Portrait of Williamstown Theatre Festival; The First 60 Years.” Weighty retrospective of WTF is part time machine, part family album [...]

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We are introduced to Deirdre, and, less than an hour later, we have a new old friend. There really was no pressing reason to request an interview with Deirdre Flynn Sullivan, except that we haven’t spoken yet, which was reason enough. Turns out that our instincts were right on target. We spoke for about an hour and could have spoken [...]

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