A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Lauren Gunderson’s play Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight receives its Northeast regional premiere in a production by WAM Theatre, on Barrington Stage’s St. Germain Stage in the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (36 Linden St.) from November 7 through November 24, 2013. Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749),…
(NORTHAMPTON, Mass., TROY and KINGSTON, N.Y.) – Elvis Costello will perform three solo concerts in the greater region in the next two weeks: at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton, Mass., on Sunday, November 3, 2013; at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Wednesday, November 6; and at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) on…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Omaha Diner, a jazz supergroup featuring guitarist Charlie Hunter, trumpeter Steven Bernstein, saxophonist Skerik and drummer Bobby Previte, will tackle the top of the pop charts, playing jazz versions of number-one pop hits from the 1950s to today, at Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, November 7, at 8pm. Omaha Diner plays the…
JOHN IRVING, TREAT WILLIAMS to ATTEND WILLIAMSTOWN FILM FESTIVAL (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Academy Award-winner John Irving and actor Treat Williams will participate in the 15th annual Williamstown Film Festival. The festival is screening thirty films and hosting events in Williamstown and North Adams from Wednesday, October 30 through Sunday, November 3, 2013. READ MORE……
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Halloween will be marked with more than just trick-or-treating in downtown North Adams this year. In addition to the traditional festivities, there will be a Music Macabre multimedia event featuring Ryder & Hazel with the Dust Bowl Faeries and Shana Falana, and REWILDERMENT: Passing Through the Veil Between Worlds, an exhibition…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Iconic folk-blues legend Taj Mahal headlines an evening of “world blues” at the Mahaiwe on Sunday, November 3, 2013, at 7pm. Also appearing on the bill celebrating American blues music’s global influence are South African guitarist/vocalist Vusi Mahlasela – known simply as “The Voice” in his homeland — and blues-rock group…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Nationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Meg Hutchinson, a Berkshire native who came of age creatively at the original Club Helsinki in Great Barrington, Mass., brings her new body of work as heard on her terrific new album, “Beyond That” (Red House Records), to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday November 1, at 9pm. Long a…
SHEN WEI DANCE BRINGS NEW TAKE on ‘RITE OF SPRING’ to MASS MOCA (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The New York-based dance company Shen Wei Dance Arts performs at MASS MoCA on Saturday and Sunday, October 26 and 27, 2013 (at 8pm and 3pm, respectively), in a co-presentation with Jacob’s Pillow Dance. Led by Chinese-born American…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) — The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) kicks off its 2013–14 season this weekend with back-to-back concerts featuring works by Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, and Dorman on Friday and Saturday, October 25-26, 2013, at 8 p.m., in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. The program features Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka; Avner…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The New York-based dance company Shen Wei Dance Arts performs at MASS MoCA on Saturday and Sunday, October 26 and 27, 2013 (at 8pm and 3pm, respectively), in a co-presentation with Jacob’s Pillow Dance. Led by Chinese-born American choreographer Shen Wei, the performance – to be staged in the Hunter Center…
