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The Collection includes records and collected artwork of AS220 from 1983-2017. Annual accruals are expected. The materials in the collection represent the work of a wide variety of artists and performers as well as the organization. Researchers will find evidence of a complex, creative community with a national reach and strong impact on the streetscape of an urban downtown area. The bulk of the collection includes artwork and communications/public...

"Charlie Savoy was once Hollywood's hottest A-lister. Now, ten years later, she's pushing forty, exiled from the film world and back at the summer Shakespeare theater in the Berkshires that launched her career--and where her old flame, Nick, is the artistic director. It's not exactly her first choice. But as parts are cast and rehearsals begin, Charlie is surprised to find herself getting her groove back, bonding with celebrity actors, forging unexpected...

"Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead....