There will be a return to live in-person performance and will be done entirely outdoors, as the Williamstown Theatre Festival returns this season on July 6th through August 15th.

They will be presenting three shows: "Outside on Main: Nine Solo Plays By Black Playwrights" which is a world premiere series of works by both established and up and coming Black writers that will feature BIPOC actors and will be directed by Black directors.

The second show is the world premiere musical "Row" which will be staged on the Clark Art Institute’s reflecting pool. And the final production will be an immersive experience called "Alien/Nation" which is inspired by real events that took place in 1969 in Western Mass and takes audiences on a journey throughout Williamstown.

To tell us more, we welcome Mandy Greenfield - Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Artistic Director.

Soccer stadiums across Germany will light up with rainbow colors during a match Wednesday with Hungary, to protest a decision from the Union of European Football Associations denying Munich's request to illuminate its arena.

They're also showing solidarity with Hungary's LGBTQ community after the rival country passed a law denounced by human rights groups as homophobic.

The UEFA said Tuesday that it was denying a request for host city Munich's Allianz Arena to display the colors during the match.

Clarisa Andres, a petite 22-year-old, hasn't been home in over a month. She's homesick, but she says she can cope.

She's an emergency medical technician with the San Juan Early Response Network – one of the few women on the 63-member team – and the pandemic has amped up their work of responding to medical emergencies. They work 24-hour shifts, 7 days a week and when they're on call, they live in a dorm with other health-care workers.

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Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, investigative journalist and UAlbany adjunct professor Rosemary Armao and Cohoes City Director of Operations Theresa Bourgeois.

A videogame changed Peter Tamte's life. And forever altered his view of military service.

In the early 2000s the U.S. Marine Corps recruited the developer to help design video training programs. Tamte, who had never served, befriended a bunch of the grunts who were testing his product. Then came the second battle of Fallujah in Iraq, the heaviest urban fighting for U.S. troops since Vietnam.

Today the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announces new grants for arts and culture organizations under President Biden's American Rescue Plan. The pandemic relief fund set aside $135 million for both the arts and humanities endowments, nearly double the amount that was available to cultural groups in President Trump's CARES Act. Eligibility requirements for NEA grants have also been modified to allow for a broader pool of applicants.