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Early Music Festival Goes for Baroque

Kevin D. Skelton, Yulia Van Doren, Karen Modigh, and Caroline Copeland in 2011 BEMF Centerpiece Opera production of Steffani's 'Niobe, Regina di Tebe' (credit André Costantini)

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) –  The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF), which the New York Times just called “consistently imaginative,” returns to the Berkshires with two opera productions at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center from Friday, June 24 through Monday, June 27. The four performances will include the fully-staged North American premiere production of Steffani’s Niobe,…

They Might Be Giants at Mahaiwe Tickets Go on Sale Today

They Might Be Giants perform at the Mahaiwe on Friday, Sept 9, 2011

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Tickets to the previously announced They Might Be Giants concert at the Mahaiwe on Friday, September 9 at 8 pm go on sale to Mahaiwe members today,  Thursday, June 2 at noon, and to the general public on Saturday, June 4 at noon. They Might Be Giants tickets ($27 to $34)…

Eclectic cult-rockers They Might Be Giants coming to Mahaiwe

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – One of the original and longest-running alternative rock bands, They Might Be Giants – formed as a duo by John Flansburgh and John Linnell nearly 30 years ago in 1982 – will perform at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Friday, September 9, at 8, in support of their new album,…

June Drama at the Mahaiwe

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center kicks off the summer theater season with three dramatic productions: The hit public radio series Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts will perform Readings on Fatherhood on Saturday, June 11 at 8 pm. The Mahaiwe will present an encore “Live in HD” broadcast of Roundabout Theatre Company’s critically…

Berkshire Weekend Cultural Preview May 26-30

Memorial Day Weekend is one of several unofficial kickoffs to the Berkshire summer cultural season, and this weekend is no exception, with a plethora of classical music concerts, dance performances, pop, rock, country, and folk concerts, and art openings, including Paul Taylor Dance at the Mahaiwe, Rosanne Cash at MASS MoCA, the Amerigo Trio at…

(MUSIC REVIEW) Richard Thompson’s single-malt folk-rock triumphs at Mahaiwe

Richard Thompson

MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. RICHARD THOMPSON Sunday, October 25, 2008 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — If singer-songwriters were scotch whisky, Richard Thompson would be one of those rare, expensive single-malts, appreciated only by true connoisseurs. (John Mayer, on the other hand, would be Dewar’s.) In his solo performance at…