A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Norman Rockwell Museum, Chesterwood, and the Mahaiwe are teaming up to commemorate the centennial of the Lincoln Memorial, the centerpiece of which is The Lincoln Memorial Illustrated exhibition at Norman Rockwell Museum, on view from May 7 through September 5, 2022. Created in collaboration with Chesterwood — the historic summer home and…
The highly selective cultural highlights in our region this weekend include contemporary dance, blues, country, jazz … plus a whole lot more. EXPERIMENTAL DANCE at THE FOUNDRY Tonight at 7:30pm choreographer Fiona Scruggs brings her multi-piece work titled “Qualia” to the Foundry in West Stockbridge, Mass. Qualia is defined as one’s own individual experience…
(AMHERST, Mass.) – The Klezmatics, Eleanor Reissa, Socalled, and Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket Revue headline the 10th annual YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music, taking place at the Yiddish Book Center over the course of four days, Thursday, July 7-Sunday, July 10, 2022. This year’s festival – once again curated by Yidstock artistic…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include opera, comedy, folk, jazz … plus a whole lot more. MID-WINTER MOZART Soprano Maria Valdes and tenor Alex McKissick will perform arias and duets written throughout Mozart’s career in “Mid-Winter Mozart,” a presentation of Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) at St. James Place in Great Barrington,…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include Indian music, Irish music, Greek and Yiddish music, modern dance … plus a whole lot more. CRASH TEST DUMMIES in DALTON Left-of-center alternative rock group Crash Test Dummies — best known for lead singer Brad Robert’s impossibly low bass-baritone voice and hits including “Superman’s Song,” “Mmm…
Internationally acclaimed Dutch Yiddish singer Niki Jacobs will bring her Yiddish version of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis’s “Mauthausen Cycle” to three Northeastern U.S. venues in mid-March. Performing with her classical/klezmer ensemble, Jacobs will present her Holocaust-themed program drawn from “The Ballad of Mauthausen,” also known as the “Mauthausen Cantata,” at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include all varieties of chamber music, rock, pop, folk … plus a whole lot more. HELEN GILLET at THE FOUNDRY Belgian-born cellist, singer, composer Helen Gillet has been described as a “whirling dervish of the cello.” Gillet brings her diverse, eclectic sounds to the Foundry in…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — Soprano Maria Valdes and tenor Alex McKissick will perform arias and duets written throughout Mozart’s career in “Mid-Winter Mozart,” a presentation of Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) at St. James Place on Sunday, March 27, at 4pm. The vocalists will be accompanied by pianist Noah Palmer. The festival’s inaugural winter concert…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include ballet, chamber music, jazz, comedy … plus a whole lot more. THE LUCKY 5 BRINGS SWING-JAZZ to EGREMONT BARN On Saturday at 7:30pm, the Lucky 5 brings its hard-swinging jazz, drawing on the tradition of jazz from the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s, to the…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include jazz, comedy, opera … plus a whole lot more. MONOLOGUES at PS21 In early December, acclaimed playwright/director Pascal Rambert arrived at PS21 in Chatham, N.Y., from France for a weeklong residency with actors Jim Fletcher and Ismail ibn Conner, to rehearse and refine two of…
