LAUREN AMBROSE, DEBRA JO RUPP, JAYNE ATKINSON, OTHER STARS FEATURED in WAM THEATRE MAHAIWE BENEFIT
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Claiming Her Place, a benefit for WAM Theatre co-produced and hosted by Tony Award-nominee Jayne Atkinson, will take place on Sunday, June 30, 2013, at 7pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington. The evening will feature a celebrity panel discussing the challenges women face in the entertainment industry. The panel includes: Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under), Michel Gill (House of Cards), Marin Mazzie (Tony Award nomination for Kiss Me, Kate), Linus Roache (Law & Order) and Debra Jo Rupp (That 70’s Show). The celebrity panel will share their stories, observations and thoughts about the challenges women face in the entertainment industry.
BANJO VIRTUOSO TONY TRISCHKA LEADS TRIO at PS21
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Banjo legend Tony Trischka will headline an evening of progressive acoustic music along with fiddler Darol Anger and guitarist Michael Daves at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century on Saturday, June 29, 2013, at 7:30 pm. Trischka’s avant-garde banjo stylings have inspired a generation of progressive bluegrass musicians as well as earning him a Grammy nomination and the honor of being named International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player of the Year.
MARX BROTHERS MUSICAL at WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Animal Crackers, the 1928 Broadway musical that George S. Kaufman created for the Marx Brothers and that went on to become one of their most beloved films, is being staged in a modern adaptation written and directed by Henry Wishcamper on the Main Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival from Wednesday, June 26, 2013, through Sunday, July 14, 2013. Opening at the same time on the Nikos Stage and running through Sunday, July 7, is the world premiere of American Hero by Bess Wohl.
HIP-HOP DANCE and ONE-MAN SHOW at JACOB’S PILLOW
(BECKET, Mass.) – French hip-hop troupe Compagnie Käfig and LEO, a fantastical one-man-show from Berlin, headline at Jacob’s Pillow Dance from Wednesday, June 26, through Sunday, June 30, 2013. Compagnie Käfig is returning to the Pillow this summer after a strong, sold-out run last year, performing an encore program of two virtuosic works, Correria and AGWA, both characterized by athleticism, artistry, and drama, in the Ted Shawn Theatre. LEO, in the Doris Duke Theater, is set to a soundtrack ranging from Ravi Shankar, Slayer, and Frank Sinatra to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, and portraying the unusual journey of an otherwise ordinary man whose world becomes physically unhinged. Limited to a specific area of the stage, the performer explores the ever-changing nature of the space he inhabits.
NEW ORLEANS LEGENDS to PERFORM at THE CLARK
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – New Orleans’s renowned Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs at The Clark just four days shy of Mardi Gras, on Friday, February 8, 2013, at 8 pm. The group is the house band at Preservation Hall, the venerable music venue located in the heart of the city’s French Quarter and founded in 1961 by Allan and Sandra Jaffe. The band has traveled worldwide, spreading their mission to nurture and perpetuate the art form of New Orleans jazz — a mission strengthened by the devastation brought about by Hurricane Katrina in 2007.
FUTURE BIBLE HEROES REUNITE at HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Future Bible Heroes will celebrate the release of “Partygoing,” their first new recording in 11 years, with a concert at Club Helsinki Hudson on Monday, July 1, at 8pm. The witty pop trio on the recording is celebrated songwriter Stephin Merritt, his Magnetic Fields bandmate Claudia Gonson, and composer/synth-wizard Christopher Ewen. The live ensemble is Gonson, Ewen, Shirley Simms (also of the Magnetic Fields) and Anthony Kaczynski.