(LENOX, Mass.) – John Harbison’s opera The Great Gatsby will be performed by the orchestra and chorus of Boston-based Emmanuel Music on Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 7:30 p.m., in Ozawa Hall, as part of Tanglewood’s 75th birthday tribute to the composer. The concert performance will be led by Emmanuel Music artistic director Ryan Turner…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Berkshire Actors Theatre (BAT) 2012 summer season at Berkshire Museum will pair two shows by John Patrick Shanley: Doubt: A Parable, Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play, and a remount of last season’s successful production of Four Dogs and a Bone. The Shanley plays will be performed in repertory in the…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Landscape paintings by John MacDonald – one of the region’s most popular, prolific and respected landscape artists – are featured in an exhibition currently running at The Harrison Gallery through November 30, 2011. McDonald has staked out the Berkshires as his favorite terrain, painting portraits of the area as it appears in…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Noted U.S. and international scholars will gather at The Clark on November 4 and 5 for the 2011 Clark Conference, In the Wake of the Global Turn: Propositions for an “Exploded” Art History without Borders. This scholarly conference draws together scholars to investigate what a shift towards a broader geographical expanse in…
(TORONTO, ON) – Beginning Memorial Day Weekend 2012, the galleries at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., will be turned over to the largest U.S. survey of contemporary art from our neighbors to the north. Last week, at the Toronto International Art Fair, the museum released new details about Oh, Canada, its major survey of…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando will make a special free presentation at The Clark on Tuesday, October 18 at 6:30 pm focusing on his work on The Clark’s campus expansion program. Ando designed The Clark’s Stone Hill Center, which has quickly become an iconic part of The Clark’s campus. In this special…
(LENOX, Mass.) — Elayne Polly Bernstein Schwartz, a patron and supporter of many Berkshire cultural organizations whose name adorns a performance center at Shakespeare & Company, where she was a board member since 1998, died this past Tuesday, October 4, 2011. A memorial service for family and friends will be held in the Elayne P.…
BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP Birthday Boy by Chris Newbound Directed by Wes Grantom Through Oct 16, 2011 Word Premiere Review by Seth Rogovoy (STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Birthday Boy, Williamstown playwright Chris Newbound’s fabulous new comic drama, is enjoying a stellar world premiere production in the Unicorn Theatre at Berkshire Theatre Festival Thursdays through Sundays through October…
(BOSTON) – Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki today appointed Helena Fruscio, an experienced creative economy leader in Berkshire County, to the position of Creative Economy Industry Director for the Commonwealth. Fruscio will help advance the state’s $1 billion creative economy industry, which currently employs over 100,000 Massachusetts workers, according to a…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Chesterwood will mark the harvest season with food, spirits and live music at the second annual Cider Mash Bash on Saturday, September 17, 2011, from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Guests will enjoy beverages by Berkshire Mountain Distillery Spirits, Furnace Brook Winery, Wandering Star Brewing Company, and Woodchuck Hard Cider, and dinner by…
