(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Tony Award-winning star of the original cast of A Chorus Line, Donna McKechnie, will perform My Musical Comedy Life on Sunday, July 10, 2011, at 7 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. The one-woman show garnered McKechnie a Mac Award Nomination for Best Female Singer and the Backstage Bistro Award…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — The Clark’s outdoor summer band concert series begins on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, at 6 with the acclaimed family bluegrass band the Doerfels, who performed at The Clark in 2009 to a packed audience and rave reviews. One of today’s most exciting and unique groups, The Doerfels perform lively progressive acoustic music…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The award-winning musical satire group Capitol Steps returns to Cranwell Resort, Spa at Golf Club for the fifth consecutive summer, this weekend, performing from July 2 to September 3, as the group celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with the release of its newest album, Desperate House Members. The troupe will perform a variety…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Pianist Lincoln Mayorga and vocalist Nina Fine will perform a cabaret of theater music by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and many of their contemporaries on Saturday, June 25 at 8 at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century in Chatham, N.Y. “The tone of the evening will be contemporary theatrical, rather than…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — The 2011 Berkshire Fringe kicks off its seventh season with 50 original works of theater, dance and music by emerging artists from across the United States from July 25 to August 15 in the Daniel Arts Center on the campus of Simon’s Rock. The festival hosts seven innovative theater and dance…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The first single from Wilco’s forthcoming album and the first release on its own dBpm Records will be a limited-edition, clear vinyl 7-inch of the new Wilco tune “I Might” backed with a cover of Nick Lowe’s “I Love My Label.” The limited-edition single will be available at the band’s Solid…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Singer-songwriter Bobby Sweet will celebrate the release of his latest recording, Cowboys and Poets, with a concert on Saturday, June 18, at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass. Sweet’s new folk/Americana style has drawn comparisons to John Prine, Jackson Browne, Guy Clark, and “a countrified Bruce Springsteen.” An engaging storyteller and dynamic…
(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)…
(HOUSATONIC, Mass.) – John Gorka, Christine Lavin, Dan Bern, Bill Staines, Rory Block, Jonathan Edwards, Barry McGuire, Vance Gilbert, and, of course, Arlo Guthrie, are just a few of those slated to perform in the 2011 Summer Troubadour Series at the Guthrie Center, located at the Old Trinity Church where Alice of Alice’s Restaurant fame…
(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,…
