THREE DOG NIGHT BRINGS HITS TO THE COLONIAL
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Pop-rock hitmakers Three Dog Night bring their extensive catalog of early 1970s Top 20 hits to the Colonial Theatre on Thursday, November 21, 2013, at 8pm. In the years 1969 through 1974, immediately following the breakup of the Beatles, no other group achieved more top 10 hits, including “Joy to the World,” “Black and White,” “Shambala” and “One.” The group also popularized the work of mostly undiscovered songwriters including Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, Elton John, Laura Nyro, Paul Williams and Hoyt Axton.
Playwright Lauren Gunderson
PLAY ABOUT VOLTAIRE’S MISTRESS at WAM THEATRE
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Lauren Gunderson’s play Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight receives its Northeast regional premiere in a production by WAM Theatre, on Barrington Stage’s St. Germain Stage in the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (36 Linden St.) through Sunday, November 24, 2013. Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), best known for her 15-year-liaison with Voltaire, the French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, was far more than a great man’s mistress. She became a highly regarded interpreter of modern physics and a master of mathematics and linguistics during the Age of Enlightenment. In the play, Emilie searches for a formula that will convince the world of her worth by tallying her achievements in love and philosophy.
POOR OLD SHINE BRINGS GRASSROOTS SOUNDS to CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Folk-roots quintet Poor Old Shine brings its energetic take on acoustic Americana to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, November 23, 2013, at 9pm. The band will be celebrating the release of its new, eponymous album – showcasing the group’s vintage bluegrass and grassroots ethos – at the show. Poor Old Shine’s music is rooted in the folk and Appalachian mountain music tradition and fits in well at bluegrass festivals and sticky rock clubs alike. Each set mixes the band’s original songwriting with traditional folk ballads, prison work songs, and front porch style jamming.
‘House on West Kerley’ by Joel Griffith
NEUMANN FINE ART FEATURES JOEL GRIFFITH, PAINTER LAUREATE of TIVOLI, in SOLO EXHIBITION
(HILLSDALE, N.Y.) – Oil paintings by Joel Griffith are on display at Neumann Fine Art (65 Cold Water St) through January 4, 2014. A reception and gallery talk by the artist will take place on Saturday, November 30, at 5pm. Joel Griffith was named the official Painter Laureate of his hometown of Tivoli, N.Y., in 2003. His paintings, many of which grace the walls of Tivoli’s Town Hall, “are like a great story told at the local bar by a profound poet with a visionary eye,” said Bard College associate professor Tim Davis in an essay on Griffith’s work.