A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
A highly selective preview of cultural events taking place this weekend in the greater Berkshire region, including a Broadway star; an early music group; a guitar-rock double-bill; and a new musical. DONNA McKECHNIE KICKS off BARRINGTON STAGE CABARET SERIES with TRIBUTE to 1970s NYC (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie kicks off the 2016…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., and LAKEVILLE, Conn.) – Early music organization Crescendo presents “Elizabethan Music and The Sounds of Hamlet,” a concert featuring madrigals and motets plus a world premiere by composer Juan Mesa, based on three quotes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, at Great Barrington’s First Congregational Church on Saturday, May 21, at 6pm, and again in…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – “Presto Change-O,” with book and lyrics by Eric Price and music by Joel Waggoner, receives its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) from Wednesday, May 18, through Saturday, June 11. This exciting new musical, a production of BSC’s Musical Theatre Lab, tells the story of three generations of magicians who find…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie kicks off the 2016 season at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) with “Same Place: Another Time,” on Sunday, May 22, and Monday, May 23, at 8pm both nights. Donna McKechnie, the Tony Award-winning star of “A Chorus Line,” is regarded internationally as one of Broadway’s…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Acoustic engineer Edgar Choueiri will discuss his binaural audio set-up, which he claims can fool listeners into believing they are experiencing a live performance when they are actually hearing a recording, in a presentation entitled “Making Waves — Sounds of the Future” at the Hudson Opera House on Sunday, May 22, at…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Long-running upstate power-pop trio The Figgs and satirical hard-rockers The Upper Crust bring their catchy guitar-rock to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, May 20, at 9pm. Since the Figg’s inception in 1987, the trio has spent the better part of nearly 30 years touring, recording, and working on a variety of acclaimed…
A highly selective preview of cultural events taking place this weekend in the greater Berkshire region, including a string quartet; a jazz saxophonist; a folk-rock jam band; and a Texas singer-songwriter. DOVER QUARTET to PLAY BEETHOVEN, DVORAK and BERG at MAHAIWE (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Dover Quartet, dubbed by the New Yorker…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Folk-rock jam-band Rusted Root brings its world-music-influenced sounds to the Colonial on Saturday, May 14, at 8pm. Originally from Pittsburgh, the group is known for its fusion of acoustic, rock, world and other styles of music, with a strong percussion section that draws from African, Latin American, and Native American influences. Rusted…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Dover Quartet, dubbed by the New Yorker “the young American string quartet of the moment,” will perform works by Beethoven, Dvorak and Alban Berg at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, May 14, at 6pm, as part of the Close Encounters With Music chamber series. The program’s triad of Beethoven, Dvorak and Alban Berg offers up the “American” Quartet, a triumph of Dvorak’s astonishing melodic…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Alto saxophonist Grace Kelly will front the Phil Woods Quintet in a memorial concert paying tribute to the late jazz saxophonist, one of her mentors, at Barrington Stage Company on Saturday, May 14, at 8 pm, in a presentation by Berkshires Jazz. The tribute will be performed by a gathering of the…
