(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Golden Globe Award-nominee Treat Williams, who is also an airplane pilot and a children’s book author, will take part in the fifth season-opening gala for Berkshire Playwrights Lab on Saturday, June 9, 2012, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. The multimedia event will also include a new short piece by Pulitzer…
(WILLIAMSTOWN and GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Oliver Goldsmith’s comedic masterpiece, She Stoops to Conquer, comes to the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 7pm ($25 / $18 Students) and The Clark ($25/ $23 members and students) in Williamstown on Friday, March 30 at 2 pm, live in HD from London’s National…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Blind Boys of Alabama, who gave one of the most memorable performances ever seen at the Mahaiwe Theatre – or anywhere – when they performed there in 2002 under the auspices of Club Helsinki, return to the venue almost exactly a decade later on Sunday, March 25, 2012, at 7…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The complex relationships among Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann will be explored on Saturday, March 24, 2012, at 6 p.m., at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, in Grand Piano Quartets: Schumann and Brahms, a Close Encounters With Music (CEWM) concert featuring pianist Lydia Artymiw in a program including Piano…
Mavis Staples MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Great Barrington, Mass. MAVIS STAPLES Sunday, January 22, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Mavis Staples took the big crowd at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Sunday night on a winding road, making stops at Selma and Montgomery and Washington D.C., at Woodstock and Winterland…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Mavis Staples, whose musical career has spanned over a half century spanning gospel, spirituals, R&B, rock, pop, folk, country, protest, Americana and indie rock, and who was a longtime member of her legendary family ensemble, the Staples Singers, performs at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Sunday, January 22 at 7…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will screen The Polar Express on Wednesday, December 28, 2011, at 6 p.m. ($6 general admission). Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on children’s author Chris Van Allsburg’s modern holiday classic of the same name, The Polar Express (2004) revolves around Billy (Hayden McFarland), who longs…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Berkshire Bach Ensemble continues its tradition of over two decades on Saturday, December 31, 2011, by performing all six Brandenburg Concerti of Johann Sebastian Bach, directed by harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center at 6 p.m. Bach’s colorful Brandenburg Concerti have been the stars of the Baroque…
Lyle Lovett at the Mahaiwe (photo Seth Rogovoy) MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group Saturday, December 17, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – There are still a few performers out there who work hard for their money, who equally value craftsmanship and entertainment, who continue to challenge themselves…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Four-time Grammy Award-winner Lyle Lovett will perform at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center with his five-member acoustic group on Saturday, December 17, 2011, at 8 pm. Finely wrought and full of wit, wisdom, and Texas-sized storytelling, his songs are rife with characters and concepts that loom large on the American landscape.…
