A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Kaufman’s Barber Shop, about a group of first-generation American-Jewish businessmen and professionals in upstate New York who meet regularly to have their hair cut and to socialize away from a society that accepts them only marginally, gets its world premiere in an innovative production by Shakespeare & Company staged on location at…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah, a new play about the friendship and rivalry between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, premieres at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) from Thursday, August 15, 2013, through Sunday, September 29, 2013, on the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Ordinary Festivals, a dance-theater piece for 300 oranges, seven performers, and two knives, is among those that will be performed by Pearsonwidrig Dancetheater at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century on Friday and Saturday, August 16 and 17, 2013, as part of PS21’s comedy-themed season. Also on the program is Oashisu,…
(CHESTER, Mass.) – The curtain comes down on the 2013 season at Chester Theatre Company (CTC) with a production of An Iliad, a critically acclaimed one-man retelling of Homer’s epic poem, running from Thursday, August 15 through Sunday, August 25, 2013. Playwrights Lisa Peterson and Tony Award-winner Denis O’Hare were honored with a special citation…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Combining the spirit of punk rock with the fun of a fireman’s parade, the 30-member Mucca Pazza – “the marching band that thinks it’s a rock ’n roll band” – takes over MASS MoCA‘s campus for five performances throughout the weekend of August 16-18, 2013. The Mucca Pazza catalog covers everything…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Pianists Vassily Primakov and Natalia Lavrova will perform works by Chopin and Rachmaninov in the Tannery on the grounds of the Darrow School as part of the Tannery Pond Concerts chamber music series on Saturday, August 17, 2013, at 8pm. The program features Primakov playing a selection of Chopin, followed by…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – On Saturday, August 17, Helsinki Hudson will become “New Orleans on the Hudson,” when the kitchen and the stage are turned over to the flavors and sounds of the Big Easy, with an all-New Orleans menu served up by Helsinki Executive Chef Hugh Horner — a native of Louisiana — and a…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Every day this week (Monday through Friday), one contributor to the Rogovoy Report will be selected to receive a pair of tickets to see the production of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing running now through August 25 on the main stage at Barrington Stage Company. For every $5 contribution made to…
(SALISBURY, Conn.) – “Earth jazz” pioneer Paul Winter headlines a benefit concert, taking place in the converted boathouse of Salisbury resident Anne MacDonald, for the Great Barrington-based environmental magazine Orion, on Saturday, September 7, 2013. The intimate event will include drinks and hors d’oeuvres catered by Old Inn on the Green. Winter will play some…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – With a production of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Julianne Boyd and running from Thursday, August 8, 2013 through August 25 at the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, William Shakespeare makes his long-awaited debut at Barrington Stage Company. (Contributors to the Rogovoy Report are eligible for free tickets to this show.) Boyd sets this…
