(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Barrington Stage Company is bringing back one of the summer’s popular hits, The Best of Enemies by Mark St. Germain, for a two-week run during fall foliage season, October 5-16, 2011. Inspired by the best-selling book by Osha Gray Davidson, The Best of Enemies is a true story about the relationship between…
by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., February 22, 2002) – Steven Bernstein’s quartet, Sex Mob, usually gets lumped in with the downtown-jazz avant-garde. This is in part because Bernstein and his Sex Mob bandmates are stalwarts of that scene, often found playing in avant-garde nightclubs like the Knitting Factory and Tonic, and because they incorporate…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Country-folk singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett, folk-gospel legend Mavis Staples, the Blind Boys of Alabama, James Brown sidemen Pee Wee Ellis and Maceo Parker, jazz fusion stars Spyro Gyra, English folk-rock pioneer Richard Thompson, and New Age ensemble Paul Winter Consort – most all of whom have won Grammy Awards — are the…
(HOUSATONIC, Mass.) – SKY SLICE and The Pedestal Series, an exhibition of new work by painter Ann Getsinger, opens on Saturday, October 8, 2011, at Lauren Clark Fine Art with an artist’s reception from 4 to 7 p.m. This new exhibition of “stillscapes” by the well-known Berkshire artist will remain on display through November 7,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – By pre-booking reservations for WAM Theatre’s November production of The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls, a Canadian comedy about three sisters making its Berkshire premiere November 3-20 at Barrington Stage Company Stage 2 in Pittsfield, by October 15, 2011, ticket-buyers will have the opportunity to be entered into a drawing…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – On Thursday, October 6. the Mahaiwe (at 7 p.m.) and The Clark (at 2 p.m.) will present London’s National Theatre: Live in HD production of Arnold Wesker‘s The Kitchen, a black comedy set in a 1950s London restaurant, screened live from the from the Olivier Theatre in London. Wesker’s play premiered at…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Internationally renowned Sanskrit chant duo Deva Premal and Miten perform The Yoga of Sacred Song and Chant at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Sunday, October 9, at 7:30 p.m. The duo will be joined by Nepalese flute maestro Manose for the event, presented by Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health…
(AMHERST, Mass.) — The Jewish legend of the golem – a human-like creature created by man, not God — has inspired numerous creative works, from Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein to Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2001 novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. One of the most recent creations is Tom Nazziola’s soundtrack to Paul…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The 23rd annual Construct Walk takes place on Sunday, October 16, 2011, beginning at Ski Butternut on Route 23 and ending at Construct’s offices and shelter at 41 Mahaiwe St., in downtown Great Barrington, to raise funds to help provide emergency services for those families and individuals living in the southern…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — Edible Education: The Rise And Future Of The Food Movement, a series of videotaped lectures from UC Berkeley with renowned author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Nikki Henderson of the People’s Grocery, kicks off with “Food as Culture” by visionary artist Peter Sellars, one of the most powerful forces in…
