DORSET - Talk about inside baseball. What better way is there to launch a new season at the Dorset Theater Festival than to produce a play about actors and the often conflicting cross currents of show business and personal relationships?
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JAMAICA - The second season of the Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival held in Jamaica is scheduled for Aug. 4-10. Last year's event at the historic town hall was an idyllic musical experience. To help fund this free cultural event the musicians and coordinators are currently running a Kickstarter campaign.
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PAWLET - "There are so few instances of revelatory moments, when you have these moments of unexpected and unsolicited grace that take you and let you go " says Brian Sweetland, a talented artist from Pawlet.
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LONDONDERRY - Actor Sam Lloyd, known as 'Ted the lawyer' from the TV show "Scrubs," and his Beatles tribute band "The Butties" will celebrate their 30th Anniversary on July 6 at The Base Lodge of Magic Mountain Resort. They will perform the Beatles' greatest hits, including the entire "A Hard Days Night" album, starting at 8 p.m.
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MANCHESTER - Five weeks of live music and theater presented by a dozen arts organizations will begin on June 28 with the opening of the second annual Hills Alive! Festival of the Performing Arts in Southern Vermont. The event will run until Aug. 3.
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DORSET - The Dorset Theatre Festival will continue its long-standing commitment to new play development with a new work by award-winning playwright Adam Rapp. Now in its sixth season, DTF's New Play Programs have drawn critical and national acclaim, attracting some of the top writers each year to their Writers Retreat and Play Reading Series.
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MANCHESTER -- What's creativity? More importantly, perhaps; what's the future of creativity? What forms will it take? How will they be different from ones we are already familiar with?
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MANCHESTER - Joe Eck will be at the Northshire Friday, June 14 at 7 p.m. presenting "To Eat;" informative, funny, and, above all, tenderly moving, "To Eat" is a fitting capstone to a profound partnership and a memorable book about the path food travels from garden to table.
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BENNINGTON - On Saturday, June 15, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., The Bennington Center For The Arts will host a free reception for three exhibitions: "Impressions of New England," "The Small Works Show" and "Art & The Animal Kingdom." In the afternoon one can attend two lectures given by Carl Brest Van Campen and Douglas Lindsey.
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TINMOUTH - Authors, editors and agents from around New England are among the featured instructors and presenters at the annual Green Mountain Writers Conference this summer. Registration for the conference, which will be held daily July 29 to Aug. 2, is under way.
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SALEM, N.Y. - Once a noble experiment, now an annual tradition, Tim Nelson and his Rose Center Theater Repertory Players fly themselves and their costumes from Westminster, Calif., to Salem, N.Y., and present a "big" classic musical on Fort Salem Theater's intimate stage. This year, for one weekend only, June 21-23, the show is Man of La Mancha, the Don Quixote legend set to beautiful music, which includes the show's hit song, "The Impossible Dream."
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I was honored to have been chosen to judge the Whoopie Pie Festival in Dover Foxcroft, Maine last year and was asked again this year. When asked to come up with my favorite recipe from The Yankee Chef cookbook, my mind was made up before we even got off the phone.
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