Adams Theater: 'Robert Frost: This Verse Business'

10:58AM / Tuesday, May 28, 2024Print Story | Email Story

ADAMS, Mass. — The Adams Theater is bringing the "Robert Frost: This Verse Business," starring Gordon Clapp, to the Berkshires on June 1 and 2.

It's a one-man exploration of the poet: his life, his poetry, his decisions, his regrets, and his writing.

According to a press release, Emmy winner (NYPD Blue), IRNE winner (Man in the Ring), and Tony nominee Clapp has been lauded for the way he embodies Frost's "flinty old poet" vibes.

Clapp read Robert Frost's biographies shortly after graduating from Williams College in 1971.

"I'd always been obsessed with his poetry. And I decided I'm going to bring this guy to the stage," he told Vermont Public Radio in 2023. "But it took me another 30 years to get around to it."

Clapp has now played Frost more than 130 times; playwright A.M. Dolan, who has acted with regional and summer theatres across the country, earned a "Best New Play" award for "This Verse Business" at the Eventide Arts Festival in 2010, and "Best Production" at the United Solo Play Festival in NYC in 2013. Clapp has returned to Frost even while taking on other roles in theater and TV.

Reserve tickets at www.adamstheater.org/present.

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North Berkshire School Study Encouraging Stakeholders to Take Survey

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
07:22AM / Saturday, October 03, 2026

CHESHIRE, Mass. — The consultants behind the education study for North Berkshire are hoping for solid responses to its recently released survey.

The survey, released last week, can be found here.

"Our goal is somewhere between 5 and 10 percent overall survey responses, which is somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 responses," project manager Jake Eberwein told the steering committee for the North Berkshire Educational Sustainability Study at Wednesday's meeting at Hoosac Valley High School.

This is the next phase of the study of secondary education in North County being undertaken through state funding and conducted by Berkshire Educational Consulting Group, Berk12.

"Our first phase was project awareness, and that was really our you know attempt to meet the school committees, select boards, and we wrapped that up this past Monday in Williamstown," Berk12 researcher Brendan Sheran said. "And certainly, we'll be doing more of that going back out probably in the midyear or springtime. But in terms of info gathering, really, the data collection — that's where we are now."

The community survey was launched through sharing on social media, the group's stakeholder list, the press, and the district partners, which are distributing it to educators, parents and students. The window is expected to close on Friday, Oct. 9, but Sheran said they can be flexible with the date.

The survey takes about seven to 10 minutes and is open to those in the Hoosac Valley Regional and Mount Greylock Regional school districts and in North Adams, Clarksburg, Florida and Savoy.

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