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Monthly Archives: June 2011

(Dance Review) Norway’s Carte Blanche at Jacob’s Pillow

June 30, 2011
Carte Blanche in 'Love' (photo Christopher Duggan)

Carte Blanche in ‘Love’ (photo Christopher Duggan) JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL CARTE BLANCHE Ted Shawn Theatre June 30, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – Over the past few years, audiences at Jacob’s Pillow and around the world have seen a number of artists whose names are tied to Ohad Naharin, artistic director...
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Gallerist Opens Second Gallery in Lenox

June 30, 2011
Beth Lipman, Still Life with Eggs, 2010, glass/mixed media, 15 x 36 x 21 in.

(LENOX, Mass.) – Sienna Patti, founder and director of Sienna Gallery, will open SPQ Projects, a second gallery space that will feature contemporary visual art from a variety of internationally-acclaimed artists as well as some of the field’s most cutting-edge new figures, on Friday, July 1. The new gallery will be located at 53...
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Berkshire Weekend Cultural Preview June 26-July 3

June 29, 2011
Don Byron (photo by Cori Wells Braun)

The Fourth of July holiday weekend is filled with a diverse of array of entertainment choices in the greater Berkshire region. Of course the holiday is practically synonymous in recent years with James Taylor at Tanglewood, but if you don’t already have tickets to his performances you are pretty much shut out. Fortunately there...
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Shakespeare & Company sets ‘As You Like It’ in 1920s Paris

June 29, 2011
Kelley Curran, Jonathan Epstein, and Merritt Janson in Shakespeare & Company's production of 'As You Like It'

(Lenox, MA) –As You Like It, one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, runs through September 4 in Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre in Lenox, Mass. Abounding in fools, lovers, and cross-dressers, this is the sort of production that Shakespeare & Company does best. Directed by company artistic director Tony Simotes, this As You Like It...
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Norwegian Dance Company with French Name and Belgian Director Makes U.S. Debut at Jacob’s Pillow with Israeli Choreography

June 29, 2011
Carte Blanche in Killer Pig (photo Erik Berg)

(BECKET, Mass.) – Underlining the growing internationalism of the contemporary dance world,  Carte Blanche, Norway’s award-winning National Company of Contemporary Dance, makes its U.S. full company debut in a program of compelling works by Batsheva Dance Company house choreographer Sharon Eyal of Israel at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on June 29-July 3. The U.S....
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Race Comedy Gets Staged Reading at Simon’s Rock

June 29, 2011
Playwright Andrew Dolan

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present a staged reading of Andrew Dolan’s The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King directed by Rod Menzies on Wednesday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock Daniel Arts Center McConnell Theater (84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, Mass.). The Many Mistresses of...
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(Concert Review) Montreal Jazz Festival (III)

June 29, 2011
(photo by Seth Rogovoy)

(photo by Seth Rogovoy) Montreal International Jazz Festival June 27-28, 2011 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (MONTREAL) – I am only being slightly facetious when I say that whenever I heard anything that sounded remotely like jazz over the last four days at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, I quickly fled in the...
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Art Inspired by William Cullen Bryant at Sohn Fine Art Gallery and Bryant Homestead

June 28, 2011
Summer Ramble - Kevin Sprague (top), John Atchley (bottom)

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Poet William Cullen Bryant celebrated the quintessential American landscape in his verse, “A Summer Ramble,” which, like many of his works, drew inspiration from the Berkshire countryside where he found solace in nature, away from the responsibilities of man. Sohn Fine Art Gallery presents A Summer Ramble, a group exhibition featuring...
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Berkshire Theatre Festival Kicks off Summer Season with Sixties Drama

June 27, 2011
Miriam Silverman

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The seminal 1971 drama, Moonchildren, by playwright Michael Weller, kicks off the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s Unicorn Stage season this week, in a production directed by actress Karen Allen. The play, often regarded as one of the definitive dramatic portrayals of young American life in the mid-1960s, runs June 28 through July...
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Capitol Steps Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Summer-Long Residency at Cranwell

June 27, 2011
Capital Steps

(LENOX, Mass.) –  The award-winning musical satire group Capitol Steps returns to Cranwell Resort, Spa at Golf Club for the fifth consecutive summer, this weekend, performing from July 2 to September 3, as the group celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with the release of its newest album, Desperate House Members. The troupe will perform a...
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