AMANDA McBROOM DOES BROADWAY LOVE SONGS at BARRINGTON STAGE
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Cabaret singer Amanda McBroom will inaugurate the 2014 season at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret with “Let’s Fall in Love,” a program of songs of romance by Broadway songwriters including Cole Porter, Jacques Brel, Sammy Cahn, and Jerome Kern, as well as her own compositions, at Barrington Stage Company on Friday and Saturday, May 16 and 17, at 8pm, and on Sunday, May 18, at 5pm.
MID-20TH CENTURY AMERICAN HOME DESIGN at THE MOUNT
(LENOX) – Author Maureen Footer will discuss how George Stacey shot to prominence with projects for fashion high-priestess Diana Vreeland and commissions for socialites with last names such as Astor, Paley, Harriman, and Whitney in the 1930s, continuing and extending the ideas established by Edith Wharton in “The Decorations of Houses,” in a talk at the Mount on Sunday, May 18, at 4pm.
Suzanne Ankrum
SHAKESPEARE’S ‘MEASURE FOR MEASURE’ GETS ALL-FEMALE READING by WAM
(WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – An all-female company of actors will perform a staged reading of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare at No. Six Depot Roastery and Café on Sunday, May 18 at 3p.m., as part of WAM Theatre’s Fresh Takes Play Reading Series, which offers new and reimagined works that tell women’s stories.
Amadi Azikiwe
BEETHOVEN to BE CELEBRATED in CHAMBER CONCERT at MAHAIWE
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven’s pathway from disciple of classical composer Haydn to hero of the Romantic movement will be traced in “Beethoven and the Dawn of Romanticism,” a chamber concert at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, May 17, at 6pm, as part of the Close Encounters With Music series. Works to be performed include the famed the Kreutzer Sonata and the Archduke Trio.
‘Red Cabbage’ by Bill Duffy
EXHIBITION of HUSBAND-AND-WIFE ARTISTS at SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY
(SPENCERTOWN, N.Y.) – Works by New Hampshire-based artists J. Ann Eldridge and Bill Duffy will be on display at Spencertown Academy Arts Center from May 17 through June 22, 2014. There will be an opening reception for “Off the Beaten Path: Prints by J. Ann Eldridge and Photographs by Bill Duffy” on Saturday, May 17, from 4 to 6 p.m. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
FORMER MEMBER of THE RAMONES to PLAY at CASEY’S
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – CJ Ramone, a former bassist and singer for the seminal punk-rock group the Ramones, will perform at Casey’s Billiards on Sunday May 18, at 7pm. This will mark Ramone’s second performance in the Berkshires and his touring band includes members of southern California’s the Adolescents. Other acts on the bill include The Fallen Starlets and Order of the Circle.