Great Barrington News

The Barrington Stage Company's Youth Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Producing Director Richard M. Parison Jr., will present the Berkshire premiere of "Disney's High School Musical 2." Featuring a cast of 15 teenagers from Berkshire County , "HSM2" will be presented July 15 to Aug.

Until now, however, what Great Barrington has lacked is a true "hang out" for the locals, where the average person can wander in after work, down a beer or three, kibbitz with the waiters and bartenders, catch a Red Sox game and grab a quick bite without breaking the bank.

For those who would love to see Helen Mirren perform in "Phedre" on the London stage but just don't quite have the time or money to get there, the National Theatre of London is bringing the show to you.

Along a secluded stretch of Route 102, a garden is growing and a neighborhood is growing along with it.

A 21-year-old man being transported by ambulance to a hospital for mental health treatment opened a door of the vehicle and ran away and has been missing for days in the Berkshires, police said Thursday.

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Berkshire County until 9pm Wednesday.

Investigators have arrested a Great Barrington man for a late-night business break-in, one of six that occurred in the town Wednesday night.

Potential tenants of the Hillside Avenue Housing project will have a chance to size up the new units during an open house from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today.

"I had a bunch, but they're all gone now," said Hal March, owner and proprietor of the Water Street shop.

Live on the Lake! Series Where: Burbank Park on Onota Lake, Pittsfield. When: Wednesdays, July 1st-August 26th Including: Static, Sounds of Sinatra, Hot Toddi, and more Information: 499-9348, www.pittsfield-ma.org . Concert at the Lake Series When: Wednesdays, July 1st-August 5th, 7 p.m. Including: Champagne Jam, the Soul Sensations, and Miss ...

When future barbers around the globe pick up their hair cutting manual in the coming years, they'll have a little piece of Pittsfield helping them.

Helen Mirren stars, with Dominic Cooper as Hippolytus, in the National Theatre's production of "PhA dre'' in London.

Marcus Ullman is Nero and Gillian Kieth is Poppea in Boston Early Music Festival's "L'incoronazione de Poppea" by Monteverdi being staged at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Mass.

Libraries, said William Shakespeare, "are the books, the arts, the academes, that show, contain and nourish all the world." But some residents of Housatonic, the tiny village north of the Town of Great Barrington that is a part of the township but in some ways perhaps apart from it, fear changes to their little community Ramsdell Library.

Some called it an oasis. Others called it a labor of love. But on a perfect, bright Sunday morning, the Housatonic River Walk along the W.E.B. Du Bois River Garden Park in Great Barrington was declared a National Recreation Trail.

The Berkshire Harvest Restaurant, a new eatery featuring local produce, is scheduled to open tomorrow, co-owner Robert Cohen said on Monday.

Closer to its sparse beginnings in Central Berkshire than its more momentous mingling with Long Island Sound at Milford Point, the 149 mile Housatonic has attracted me and many others by its quiet meanderings.

Patrice Mullin walks around her shop here and stops at an icing-pink painted cupboard or mahogany desk to tell about how it may have been used.

The news that a Pittsfield man has been charged with beating his girlfriend to death is disturbing but not surprising, according to a local domestic-violence expert.

'From England to Germany and Back,' a spring choral concert with James Bagwell, conductor, Berkshire Bach Singers, orchestra and soloists, program of Purcell, Telemann and Handel, 8 p.m., First Congregational Church, 251 Main St., Great Barrington, 528-9555. Comments made here are the sole responsibility of the person posting them, and they are ...