A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(BECKET, Mass.) – Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group brings its program, Moses(es), to the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival for six perfomrances from Wednesday, July 9, 2014, through Sunday, July 13, 2014. The choreography – fusion of modern and African dance – is married to a diverse score including music by…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Philadelphia-based Jasper String Quartet will perform works by Haydn, Dvorak, and Shostakovich in the series of Concerts at Tannery Pond at the Darrow School on Saturday, July 12, 2014, at 8pm. The Jasper will play the Haydn Quartet in C major, Op. 33, No. 3, Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 3 in…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – “A Great Wilderness,” a new play by Obie Award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter, inaugurates the 2014 season on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, running from Wednesday, July 9, 2014, through Sunday, July 20. Walt has devoted his life to counseling teenage boys out of their homosexuality at his remote…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Buddy Guy, a six-time Grammy Award-winner and blues legend who Rolling Stone named one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, will perform at the Mahaiwe on Friday, July 11, 2014, at 8pm. As an exponent of electric Chicago blues and a guitarist in…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Grammy Award-nominated Latin funk group Locos Por Juana brings its unique fusion of Latin dance, hip-hop, reggae and funk to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, July 5, at 9pm. The Miami-based group, which aptly describes its dance-groove music as “island swing,” plays a funky, pan-Latin, horn-inflected amalgam of Afro-Caribbean sounds rooted in…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound bring their funky brand of world-beat-influenced rock ‘n’ roll to Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, July 3, at 8pm. Cebar’s quirky take on bluesy rock with an underpinning of R&B and jump blues, laced with his witty vocals, buzzfeed guitar licks, and gritty percussion raised on African, Latin and Caribbean influences, is like a Midwestern version…
HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO OFFERS GLOBAL PROGRAM at JACOB’S PILLOW (BECKET, Mass) – Popular contemporary company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will present a program featuring global influences at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in the Ted Shawn Theatre in an extended seven-show engagement from Wednesday, July 2, through Sunday, July 6. Dances include the dramatic…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – In a declaration of independence from its past, the Clark Art Institute opens its newly renovated and expanded campus to the public on Friday, July 4, 2014, immediately following the town’s Fourth of July parade. The doors to the Clark will open at 1pm to all; admission is free, the galleries will…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – A time-tested parlor game becomes a performance when a hilarious troupe of Brooklyn storytellers play “Two Truths and a Lie” at Club B-10 (in its alternative home at the Dré Wapenaar Pavilion) at MASS MoCA on Saturday, July 5, 2014, at 8pm. Blending fiction with memoir around an American history theme,…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Boston Symphony Orchestra opens its 2014 Tanglewood season on Saturday, July 5, at 8:30pm in the Shed with an all-Americanprogram at Tanglewood program featuring superstar soprano Renée Fleming in an adventurous program of modern works by Copland, Barber, and John Adams, as well as a selection of Broadway show tunes by the Gershwins…
