Gregory Maqoma, the South African choreographer of William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load, returns to the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., with Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro, performed by the Vuyani Dance Theatre, on Saturday, February 1, at 8pm. The work weaves a narrative of greed, power, and the…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Nineties alt-rockers Gin Blossoms will kick off the live performance season at the Mahaiwe on Friday, March 6 at 8pm. The season continues with jazz-folk vocalist Madeleine Peyroux on Friday, April 17 at 8pm; Hot Tuna with special guest David Grisman Trio on Monday, July 13 at 8pm, the Brubeck Brothers…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile makes her Tanglewood debut on Friday, June 26, at 7pm in the Shed. Two days later, on Sunday, June 28, at 2:30pm in the Shed, country-roots artists The Mavericks will share the bill with Mexican-American rock band Los Lobos. These concerts are the latest additions to…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Rodgers & Hammerstein classic South Pacific, one of the most celebrated musicals of all time, will kick off the mainstage 2020 season at Barrington Stage Company, running from June 24 through July 18. Based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific, the musical won 10 Tony…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Christopher Boy’s Communion, a new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, will receive its East Coast premiere in a staging by the new Great Barrington Public Theater at the Daniel Arts Center at Simon’s Rock College from June 17 to July 5, 2020, directed by the Public’s artistic director…
(LENOX, Mass.) – James Taylor returns to Tanglewood with his All-Star Band for a performance on Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 8 p.m. in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. The July 4 concert will be followed by a fireworks display over the Stockbridge Bowl in celebration of the Independence Day holiday. Proceeds from this concert will…
Observational comedian Katie Hannigan brings her pop-culture-laced standup to the Comedy Garage at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass., on Thursday, Jan 9, at 7:30pm. Based in New York City, Hannigan – who is also an actor and writer — has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central, the Travel Channel, Oxygen…
A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire and Hudson Valley region. The Suitcase Junket and the brilliant, witty and provocative indie singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton perform a double bill at Club Helsinki Hudson, on Saturday, December 28, at 9pm. The Hudson Valley’s own Felice Brothers, our leading…
(NEW YORK, N.Y.) – Contemporary choreographers Anna Peretz Rogovoy and Garnet Henderson will present their second shared evening of dances at the Flea Theater, in the Tribeca section of Manhattan, on December 13 and 14 at 7pm, and December 15 at 3pm. Rogovoy and Henderson will each debut new works in this hourlong evening of…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriter and visual artist Natalia Zukerman and singer-songwriter and storyteller Anne Heaton will bring songs, stories, and pictures to Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, December 5, at 8pm. Zukerman will perform excerpts from her one-woman show, “The Women Who Rode Away,” which had its work-in-progress debut at Club Helsinki Hudson two years…
