Lucinda Williams
LUCINDA WILLIAMS BOOKENDS REGION at MAHAIWE and BARDAVON
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., and POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.) – Three time Grammy Award-winner Lucinda Williams bookends our region with back-to-back concerts at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington on Saturday, October 10, at 8pm, and at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on Sunday, October 11, at 7pm. Williams has been one of the most consistently lauded Americana singer-songwriters, incorporating rock, folk, and country into her achingly personal lyrics, since her eponymous debut in 1988. Her 1998 album, “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,” is considered one of the greatest albums of the rock era.
Dr Dog
DR DOG BRINGS PSYCHEDELIC POP to MASS MoCA
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Dr. Dog brings its swirling, Beatlesque psychedelia to the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Saturday, October 10, 2015, at 8pm. The quintet from West Grove, Pennsylvania, combines a love of stomping melody and harmonies out of the late 1960s with lo-fi indie-rock featuring grungy guitars recalling Dinosaur Jr and Guided by Voices. Northampton’s Sun Parade warms up the crowd.
Nick Lowe at Helsinki Hudson (photo Seth Rogovoy)
NICK LOWE BRINGS ROOTSY POWER-POP to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Nick Lowe brings his perfectly crafted, rootsy power-pop to Club Helsinki Hudson on Wednesday, October 7, 2015, at 8pm. Folk/roots pop singer-songwriter Josh Rouse warms up the crowd for Lowe. Best known for his songs “Cruel to Be Kind” (a US Top 40 single) and “Breaking Glass” (a top 10 UK hit), Nick Lowe was an essential figure on the late-1970s/early-1980s power pop and New Wave scenes, as well as one of the most influential producers (Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, Pretenders, The Damned) and songwriters (“(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” for Elvis Costello; “I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock ’n’ Roll)” for Dave Edmunds) of all time.
Tara Franklin plays Ruth, one of the greatest female roles in modern drama, in Harold Pinter’s ‘Homecoming’ at BTG
PINTER CLASSIC ‘THE HOMECOMING’ GETS BTG STAGING
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – “The Homecoming,” one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, by Harold Pinter, one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, runs at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre now through Sunday, October 25, at 2pm. The play, ostensibly about a family reunion, written in 1964 by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and first staged in London in 1965 and on Broadway, where it won a Tony Award for Best Play, in 1967, is often considered the quintessential of Pinter’s “comedy of menace” plays, which gave birth the term “Pinteresque.”
Donnetta Lavinia Grays
NEW PLAY ‘VEILS’ GETS REGIONAL PREMIERE at BSC
(PITTSFIELD, MA)— “Veils,” a new play by Tom Coash that deals with acceptance and discrimination, gets is regional premiere at Barrington Stage Company now through Sunday, October 18. Directed by Leah C. Gardiner (BSC debut), the production stars Hend Ayoub (Samar) and Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Intisar), in their BSC debuts.