Continuing its commitment to the classics, the Stratford Players presents “Will in the Woods IV,” a full immersion in some sonorous Shakespeare snippets — sonnets, and scenes from some of the bard’s most memorable, merry and moving masterpieces — “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Taming of the Shrew,” “Macbeth” or, for the superstitious actor, “The Scottish…

The big-band era that had its heyday from the early 1930s to the 1950s helped to lift the spirits of a country recovering from a Great Depression and facing a devastating war on two fronts. Ken Dahleen and his Big Band Staff, next up at the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series, plan to lift the spirits…