CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ‘CLYBOURNE PARK’ SET FOR BARRINGTON STAGE
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris and inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, is being produced on the mainstage at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) from Thursday, September 26, 2013, through Sunday, October 13, 2013. Inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, this wickedly funny and fiercely provocative play about race, real estate, and the volatile values of each won nearly every honor the theatre has to give, including the Tony Award for Best Play, Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
SHAKER VILLAGE CELEBRATES OLD and NEW at ANNUAL COUNTRY FAIR
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The 16th annual Country Fair harvest celebration at Hancock Shaker Village (HSV) takes place on Saturday, September 28, and Sunday, September 29, 2013. The fair will include local food, handcrafts, fresh produce, antique farm equipment, oxen demonstrations, pie contests, a bluegrass band, and more. Children will enjoy wagon rides, face painting, chicken races, farm-related games under the children’s tent, and a hay pile to play in.
WILLIAMS AUTHORS KAREN SHEPARD and ANDREA BARRETT to READ WORKS
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Authors Andrea Barrett and Karen Shepard, both of whom teach in the Williams College English Department, will read from their works of fiction on Thursday, September 26, 2013, at 4pm, in Griffin Hall, room 3, on the Williams College campus. Both Shepard and Barrett have published new books this year, and each writer will read from both old and new works. The event is free and open to the public.
ARLO GUTHRIE HEADLINES FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL BENEFIT at MAHAIWE
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Arlo Guthrie headlines the 2013 Fairview Hospital Centennial Gala this Saturday, September 28, 2013, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Joining Guthrie in “Arlo Guthrie – Here Come the Kid(s)” are son Abe Guthrie, grandson Krishna Guthrie, and longtime drummer/sidekick Terry A La Berry. The benefit will raise funds for technology at Fairview Hospital’s Surgical Unit.
RUPERT HOLMES’ BRITISH THRILLER ‘ACCOMPLICE’ GETS SHAKESPEARE & CO. STAGING
(LENOX, Mass.) – Rupert Holmes’s comic thriller Accomplice, which won the prestigious Edgar Award (the “Oscar of Crime”) and the Dramalogue Award for Best Play, is being staged at Shakespeare & Company, in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, now through Sunday, November 10, 2013. The cast includes four of the company’s most popular and skilled comic actors — Elizabeth Aspenlieder, Jason Asprey, Annie Considine and Josh Aaron McCabe.
EILEN JEWELL BRINGS NOIRISH RETRO-ROCK to CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Eilen Jewell, self-styled “queen of the minor key,” brings her blend of noirish rockabilly, surf-tinged country, retro-rock and jazzy folk to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, September 27, 2013, at 9pm. Idaho native Jewell, a favorite of Helsinki audiences, emerged from Boston’s thriving indie-roots music scene in the mid-oughts and has established herself as a solidly rootsy vocalist and Americana songwriter since that time.
CABARET STAR KAREN AKERS to PERFORM at MEETING HOUSE
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) — Cabaret star Karen Akers performs on Saturday, September 28, 2013, at 4:30 p.m. at the Meeting House as part of the Music & More series. A gala wine-tasting follows, hosted by Domaney’s of Great Barrington. Akers has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl and at top New York City venues including Café Carlyle and the Oak Room.
GIANT BIRD PUPPETS to SOAR OVER CITY as PART of DOWNTOWN ARTS FEST
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Giant hawks and doves will “soar” through Main Street when MCLA’s Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) kicks off its first-ever Puppet Fest at the next DownStreet Art event on Thursday, September 26, 2013, from 5 to 8 p.m. Other highlights of this DownStreet Art event – which is free and open to the public – include art openings, musical performances and more.