(BECKET, Mass.) – Broadway stars including Trent Kowalik (Billy Elliot), Dana Moore (Fosse), and Andy Gale (Les Miserables) will lend their voices and dance moves to the fifth annual A Jazz Happening in the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on Sunday, August 21 at 8pm. This one-night-only benefit event, which celebrates the…
(LENOX , Mass.) – Broadway in the Berkshires, a special one-night event this past Monday featuring Broadway talent performing numbers from beloved Broadway musicals, raised over $60,000 to benefit Shakespeare & Company’s internationally acclaimed Education and Training Programs. An enthusiastic crowd of over 350 people enjoyed a wide range of songs and medleys from hit…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Guitar virtuoso Frank Vignola and his band, the Hot Club Trio, will give a concert at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Friday August 19, at 8, that melds gypsy jazz, bluegrass, swing, and front-porch picking into an eclectic, upbeat sound all their own. Vignola is noted for his eclecticism and…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) –You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents’ divorce, an original work written, directed, and performed by members of the New York investigative theatre company The Civilians, is playing on the Nikos Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival through Sunday, August 21, 2011. Crafted from interviews between the cast and their own parents, You…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The 25th anniversary celebration of the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival will feature Joshua Nelson and his Kosher Gospel. This concert will be held on Monday, August 22, 2011, at the Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial High School at 8 with a dessert reception at 7 before the concert. Joshua Nelson was born…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts Gallery presents “Hands, Hearts, and the Sacred,” an exhibition of Judaic art by Barbara Barron and Wendy A. Rabinowitz, from August 27 to October 8, 2011. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, August 27, from 3 to 5, with Jewish and Yiddish music and…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – “Inner Objects,” an exhibition of works by Michael Zelehoski, opens on Friday, August 19, at Sanford Smith Fine Art and runs through October 13, 2011. A reception for the artist takes place on Saturday, August 20, from 4 to 7. Zelehoski’s artwork involves the literal collapse of three-dimensional objects and structures…
(CAMBRIDGE, N.Y.) — In its fourth summer season, Hubbard Hall Opera Theater (HHOT) presents Gaetano Donizetti’s classic comic opera, Don Pasquale, in a new production by Heidi Lauren Duke, reconceived and relocated to the glamorous early Hollywood, Art Deco world of Buster Keaton and Mae West. Performances, running August 12, 13, and 18 at 8…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — Acclaimed contemporary photographer Gregory Crewdson, a longtime part-time resident of the Berkshires whose work is often staged on location in towns around the region and on stage sets at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., will have his work discussed at two events this Friday, August 19, 2011,: at the Berkshire Museum…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Edith Wharton’s century-old story, “Autres Temps…,” about divorce American-style, is being given a new staging in a different time – the Mad Men year of 1962 – by the Wharton Salon theater company at Wharton’s old estate, The Mount. This Autre Temps includes real-life mother and daughter Diane Prusha and Rory Hammond…
