A Talk with Beryl JollyYou’re listening to 52 of Will Call, released on a brilliant and beautiful Saturday, November 19, 2016. I’m your host, Jason Velázquez, and I thank you so much for joining us. We just heard a snippet of Ghost Town Girl from the eponymous new release from California-based Roots band, Echo Sparks. Not because we’re featuring them on this show, but because I recently recorded a video interview with them and I’ve got that tune stuck in my head. Go to greylockglass.com and sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know when that episode of INDIEcent Exposure goes live. In the meantime, go to their website to find out more and to listen more songs from Ghost Town Girl.My guest on the show this week is certainly no Ghost Town Girl—she’s Beryl Jolly, executive director of the Mahaiwe Center for the Performing Arts in Great Barrington, Mass., and she’s going to tell us not only about some of the great events coming up at the Mahaiwe, but also about some of the community programs that make the Center such a cornerstone of Great Barrington and, really, the entire region.But before we get to my conversation with Beryl, I’ve got to tell you that when I was checking out the Mahaiwe schedule for the weekend on their website, I saw that Hamlet, starring Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, is being broadcast live in HD from London’s National Theatre on Sunday afternoon. You can grab tickets while you’re listening to this show, now that I think about it.And while I was reading about Hamlet, it occurred to me that this weekend marks the 28th run of the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, from Shakespeare & Company. I can’t think of any Shakespeare staged with more energy and enthusiasm than the Fall Festival. If you haven’t been, the short description, from Shake & Co.’S website is:The Fall Festival deeply engages over 500 students every year through personally meaningful, educationally rigorous and dramatically compelling experiences of Shakespeare’s classical dramas. The Festival is truly a celebration, never a competition. Students from multiple schools work collaboratively, exploring Shakespeare’s words, unpacking the humor and the heartbreak, the intensity and humanity of these unparalleled plays.The even shorter description is that it’s just powerful stage magic that you shouldn’t miss.High School’s yet to perform this weekend are:Saturday, November 19Sunday, November 20And tickets are still available, at least at the time of this recording, so, why not make it a Shakespeare weekend, both at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox and the Mahaiwe just down the road in Great Barrington.And with that, let’s get on with the show and our interview with Beryl Jolly, Executive Director of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center.About Beryl JollyBeryl Jolly has been the director of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center since the rebirth of the century-old theater as a dynamic Great Barrington cultural destination in the spring of 2005.The Mahaiwe’s extensive historical restoration was completed in 200...