by Seth Rogovoy Since its release thirty-eight years ago, the Rolling Stones’s double album, Exile on Main Street, has widely been regarded as the British rock ’n’ roll band’s greatest achievement and one of the greatest — if not the greatest — rock albums of all time. Rolling Stone magazine recently called it “certainly rock…
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE Written and directed by Sean Durkin Starring Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, and Sarah Paulson Reviewed by Seth Rogovoy Writer-director Sean Durkin, who deservedly won the Best Director award last January at Sundance for Martha Marcy May Marlene, wisely allows his actors’ faces to do the heavy lifting in this captivating psychological…
Review by Fiona Breslin (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., November 15, 2011) – On Monday night at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, the third annual “Warm Up the Winter” benefit concert, hosted by Rabbi Deborah Zecher of Hevreh of Southern Berkshire, raised cash for those in need of assistance with heating costs this winter as federal funding…
Alexis P. Suter CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Hudson, N.Y. ALEXIS P. SUTER BAND Saturday, November 12, 2011 Review by Fiona Breslin (HUDSON, N.Y.) – When it took the stage at Club Helsinki on Saturday night, Brooklyn’s Alexis P. Suter Band looked more like a country-music traveling family band than it did a Brooklyn-based blues group. But…
COLONIAL THEATRE Pittsfield, Mass. ANI DiFRANCO November 9, 2011 Review by Abby Wood (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Anybody who ever thought that Ani DiFranco would have to sacrifice her “I am woman, hear me roar/stick it to the man” attitude for motherhood should have known better. Hasn’t the Righteous Babe proved to us over and…
COLONIAL THEATRE Pittsfield, Mass. ANI DiFRANCO November 9, 2011 Review by Fiona Breslin (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – While I am new to Ani DiFranco’s music, I knew well enough not to skimp out on a concert one of leading female singer-songwriters of the last two decades. Not to mention what makes a show in the Berkshires…
BARD COLLEGE Fisher Center American Ballet Theater November 5, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – American Ballet Theater (ABT) performed four different mixed-bill programs at the Fisher Center at Bard College this weekend, previewing their new season before an upcoming gala at New York City Center. ABT has received much press as of…
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Chamber Orchestra Kremlin Sunday, October 30, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – On a day with the feel of and surrounded by scenery outside that may have reminded the musicians of a snowy winter’s day back home, the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin…
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Richard Thompson October 14, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Simply put, Richard Thompson proved once again on Friday night at the Mahaiwe that he is a master – a virtuoso guitarist, an engaging performer, an acute songwriter, and an affecting singer. He puts all the elements together…
Steven Bernstein CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Hudson, N.Y. SEX MOB October 11, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Last Friday night at Club Helsinki, Steven Bernstein and his band, Sex Mob, demonstrated why they remain one of the most fun, wacky, enjoyable and outrageous party bands of the downtown avant-garde. Joined for the occasion…
