This week, not only do we offer you a guide to what to see in and around the region. We also provide you with an opportunity to enjoy an evening of dinner and a show for next-to-nothing. All four major Berkshire theater companies and several top restaurants want to reward you for your support of the Rogovoy Report with a free night out, dinner and show tickets included. While they last, the Rogovoy Report will be giving away tickets to The Bridges of Madison County at Williamstown Theatre Festival paired with dinner at Mezze Bistro + Bar; tickets to Much Ado About Nothing at Barrington Stage Company; dinner and the Capitol Steps musical satire at Cranwell; plays of your choice at Berkshire Theatre Group and Shakespeare & Company; and dinner at John Andrews Farmhouse Restaurant. Click here to learn more….
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SHAKESPEARE DEBUTS at BSC with JAZZ-SCORED ‘MUCH ADO’
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – With a production of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Julianne Boyd and running from Thursday, August 8, 2013 through August 25 at the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, William Shakespeare makes his long-awaited debut at Barrington Stage Company.
MONTREAL TROUPE DANCES to LIVE STEVE REICH SCORE at JACOB’S PILLOW
(BECKET, Mass.) – O Vertigo Danse and members of the Québec Contemporary Music Society bring La Vie Qui Bat (The Beat of Life), a powerful multi-disciplinary work based upon Steve Reich’s masterpiece Drumming, to the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, from Wednesday, August 7 through Sunday, August 11, 2013.
SCREENING of ‘BEASTS of the SOUTHERN WILD’ with LIVE SCORE at MASS MoCA
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – A screening of the hit independent film Beasts of the Southern Wild at MASS MoCA’s Cinema Courtyard – the largest movie screen in New England – will be accompanied by a live score performed by composer Dan Romer and director and co-composer Ben Zeitlin on Saturday, August 10, at 8:30pm.
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COMIC THRILLER BRINGS DOWN CURTAIN on WTF SEASON
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Blood Play by The Debate Society concludes the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s summer 2013 season with a run on the Nikos Stage from Wednesday, August 7 through Sunday, August 18, 2013. Blood Play begins on a tranquil suburban evening in the early 1950’s: the kids are away on a Junior Cherokee camping trip and a string of coincidences leads to a spontaneous grown-up party in the basement of a new ranch house. Exotic cocktails are imbibed, raucous games are played, and new friends are made, but much is happening that no one is talking about. And something is stirring underground.
HEATHER FISCH REVIVES VAUDEVILLE at THE MAHAIWE
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – La Belle Epoque, an original depression-era cabaret musical by Heather Fisch, will be staged at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday, August 10, 2013, at 8pm. The show, featuring chorus girls, live music, slapstick comedy, and choreography, is both a revival of and homage to the old vaudeville style for which the Mahaiwe Theatre was first constructed.
Elizabeth Aspenlieder and Tina Packer (photo Kevin Sprague)
TINA PACKER and ELIZABETH ASPENLIEDER FACE OFF in DARK IRISH COMEDY at SHAKESPEARE & CO.
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, starring Shakespeare & Company founder Tina Packer and critically acclaimed company actor Elizabeth Aspenlieder, runs in the Bernstein Theatre from Thursday, August 8 through September 15, 2013. Directed by Matthew Penn, making his company debut, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tracks the dysfunctional relationship between a mother and daughter who are locked in a dance of mutual loathing, which may prove more durable than any love.
Igor Stravinsky
BARD SUMMERSCAPE FESTIVAL to EXPLORE MUSIC of STRAVINSKY and HIS CONTEMPORARIES
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Eleven concert programs over the two mid-August weekends, complemented by pre-concert lectures, panel discussions, and expert commentary, make up the world-renowned Bard Music Festival’s examination of Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), arguably the most important composer of the 20th century. The eleven concerts filling the last two weekends of Bard SummerScape 2013 with a compelling and enlightening investigation of “Stravinsky and His World” offer an immersion in the worlds Stravinsky straddled, contextualizing him within the musically distinct milieus – all cultural melting pots – that he inhabited.
Gil Shaham
YEFIM BRONFMAN, GIL SHAHAM GUEST WITH BSO at TANGLEWOOD
(LENOX, Mass.) – Pianist Yefim Bronfman and violinist Gil Shaham are back-to-back guest soloists this weekend, performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christoph von Dohnányi at Tanglewood. Shaham tackles Sibelius’s Violin Concerto on Friday, August 9, 2013, at 8:30 p.m., and Bronfman performs Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto on Saturday, August 10, at 8:30 p.m.
(L-R) Ariel Bock as Mrs. Quentin and Ava Lindenmaier in The Quicksand, part of TWO BY WHARTON (photo Kevin Sprague)
WHARTON SALON CELEBRATES 5TH SEASON AT THE MOUNT WITH TWO ONE-ACTS BY EDITH WHARTON
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Wharton Salon celebrates its fifth anniversary this August with Two By Wharton, two Edith Wharton stories newly adapted into one-act comedies for the company: The Quicksand, adapted by Alison Ragland, directed by Catherine Taylor-Williams; and The Looking Glass, adapted by Elaine Smith, directed by Daniela Varon, running August 14-25, 2013 at The Mount.
Chuck Prophet
CHUCK PROPHET BRINGS ORIGINAL ROOTS-ROCK to HELSINKI
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Chuck Prophet, one of contemporary rock’s greatest songwriters, brings his group, the Mission Express, to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, August 10, at 9pm. Noir-rockabilly artist Sarah Borges will open the show. Both performers are favorites of Helsinki audiences, and are performing during the city’s all-encompassing Hudson Music Festival.