“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.
Julianne Boyd’s company, located in Pittsfield, is the only one of the county’s five principal theater companies to make a move to bring live theater back into play this year.
Director Julianne Boyd has brought Arthur Miller's version of “An Enemy of the People” to the stage with an abrupt honesty that is absolutely riveting. And it is at a particularly fitting moment in Pittsfield history, given General Electric's decades of contamination of the Housatonic River and Mayor Daniel Bianchi's recent endorsement of a natural gas pipeline that conveys fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania where the drilling has polluted the aquifer and will provide no benefit to the Berkshires.