Berkshire Theatre Fest Presents A Manson Family Album 2/27-3/27

This Week's Stories for a Sunday Afternoon: A Manson Family Album- David Felton and stories about families this Sunday at 4pm

Upcoming Stories for a Sunday Afternoon

February 27
Celebrate Black History Month

March 6
Backstage

March 13
Irish Stories - Kevin O'Hara

March 20
Animal Stories

March 27
Celebrate Women's History Month

This week we spotlight David Felton for Stories on a Sunday Afternoon. David will be reading excerpts from stories he's written about the Manson Family, the Mel Lyman Family, the BrIan Wilson family, the Lili Tomlin family, his own family, and the day Mick Jagger dropped by.

David Felton has spent his life experimenting with new forms of journalism and television writing. At the Los Angeles Times he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work covering the first Watts uprising and wrote a three-act play documenting the Summer of Love. At Rolling Stone Magazine his five-part study of Charles Manson, including a pre-trial interview, won the National Magazine Award. He received acclaim for his definitive pieces on BrIan Wilson, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Lili Tomlin, Bill Murray and cult leader Mel Lyman. He edited Hunter S. Thompson's seminal Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

For television Felton wrote episodes of Square Pegs, A Different World, and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. He produced and wrote MTV: the Reagan Years for public television and, as MTV's "oldest staff member," helped develop the Beavis and Butt-Head show for the channel. In recent years he created MTV Labs to encourage artistic experimentation by the employees of MTV Networks. The Labs motto was "a Safe Place to Suck." Currently Felton serves as President of the Deep Listening Institute, a non-profit foundation that promotes the work of pioneer composer Pauline Oliveros. He lives with his wife Susan and daughter Grace in Manhattan and North Chatham, New York.

Join us for complimentary coffee, tea, cookies and an exciting afternoon with "the family" this Sunday at 4pm at the Unicorn Theatre. A $10 donation is suggested. Reservations can be made by contacting the BTF Box Office at (413) 298-5576 x33.

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