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World Premiere of ‘Cassandra Speaks’ Opens Shakespeare & Company’s 35th Summer Season

May 15, 2012
Tod Randolph as Dorothy Thompson in "Cassandra Speaks" at Shakepeare & Company (photo Kevin Sprague)

(LENOX, Mass.) –Cassandra Speaks by Norman Plotkin, a one-woman show starring Tod Randolph about Dorothy Thompson, the “First Lady of American Journalism,” will receive its world premiere at Shakespeare & Company beginning on Friday, May 25, 2012. The play runs through September 2 in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. Dorothy Thompson was heralded by...
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Seth Rogovoy to Read at yBar in Pittsfield, Mass., on Tuesday, May 22

May 15, 2012
Seth Rogovoy

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Seth Rogovoy is the featured reader at yBar on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at 8 pm (291 North St.) in Pittsfield as part of the Tuesday Night Writers Room series, a project of the WordXWord Festival hosted by Emily Pulfer-Terino and Gabriel Squailia. Best known for his award-winning writing about music...
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Berkshire Weekend Cultural Preview, May 16-20, 2012

May 15, 2012
Composer Paola Prestini

CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN MULTIMEDIA FOLK OPERA GETS WORK-IN-PROGRESS SHOWING at MASS MOCA (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – MASS MoCA will present a work-in-progress showing of Paola Prestini’s new multimedia opera Oceanic Verses in the Hunter Center on Friday, May 18, 2012, at 8 p.m. Set against the backdrop of the Mediterranean Sea, Oceanic Verses is about...
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Soul-R&B Outfit Returns to Club Helsinki

May 15, 2012
Tre Williams

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Revelations featuring Tré Williams returns to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, May 19, 2012, at 9pm. The group’s sound marries the grit of the streets to the midnight blues of the rural South, the rawness of Stax and propulsive drive of Motown. The Revelations’ live shows have been compared to...
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Contemporary Italian Multimedia Folk Opera Has Work-in-Progress Showing at MASS MoCA on Friday

May 14, 2012
Paola Prestini, composer of 'Oceanic Verses'

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – MASS MoCA will present a work-in-progress showing of Paola Prestini’s new multimedia opera Oceanic Verses in the Hunter Center on Friday, May 18, 2012, at 8 p.m. Set against the backdrop of the Mediterranean Sea, Oceanic Verses is about people who flee and people who stay, people who sail to...
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Choral Group to Tackle Jenkins’s ‘Requiem’

May 14, 2012
Berkshire Lyric

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Berkshire Lyric, a choral performance and education organization that will celebrate a half-century next year, will present Karl Jenkins’s iconic choral powerhouse, Requiem, on Sunday, May 20, at 3 p.m., at St. Joseph’s Church on North Street. Requiem is one of the 21st century’s most recognizable choral pieces, and also one...
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Daedalus Quartet to Play Beethoven, Schubert and Berg at Mahaiwe

May 14, 2012
The Daedalus Quartet is Min-Young Kim, violin; Thomas Kraines, cello; Matilda Kaul, violin; Jessica Thompson, viola (photo Lisa-Marie Mazzucco)

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – As part of the Close Encounters With Music series, the Daedalus Quartet will perform an all-Viennese program at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday, May 19, 2012, at 6 pm. Selections include Schubert’s Quartettsatz, Beethoven’s majestic Razumovsky, Opus 59, No.1; and Alban Berg’s Quartet Opus 3, completing a musical...
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New Commission by Sculptor Simon Kogan Installed at Yiddish Book Center

May 12, 2012
'Yiddish' by Simon Kogan

(AMHERST, Mass.) – Yiddish, a commissioned work by sculptor Simon Kogan, was installed at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass., on April 29, 2012. The 4,000 pound, Cor-Ten steel work is a permanent installation in the center’s Miller Sculpture Garden. The sculpture spells out the word “Yiddish,” and etched into the steel are...
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Laurie Anderson Named Inaugural Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at RPI’s EMPAC

May 12, 2012
Laurie Anderson

(TROY, N.Y.) – Groundbreaking performance artist Laurie Anderson has been named the inaugural distinguished artist-in-residence at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for a three-year term beginning in 2012. The residency provides Anderson with wide access to space, technology, and support for creative experimentation,...
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Lili Taylor, Tyne Daly, Susie Essman to Play Williamstown This Summer

May 12, 2012
Lili Taylor

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Six Feet Under’s Lili Taylor, Cagney and Lacey’s Tyne Daly, and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Susie Essman are among a host of Williamstown Theatre Festival veterans and talented newcomers who will be straddling the boards at the ’62 Center in Williamstown this summer, along with Becky Ann Baker, Marylouise Burke, Brandon Victor...
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