A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Miro Quartet make its Tannery Pond Concerts debut on Saturday, July 27, 2013, at 8pm, when they will perform music by Schubert, Puccini and Beethoven. Founded in 1995 at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Miro is considered to be one of America’s most distinguished chamber music groups. The quartet is comprised…
(ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The production of Oresteia, composed by Igor Stravinsky’s compatriot Sergey Taneyev, at the Bard SummerScape festival, from July 26, 2013, through August 4, marks the first time this towering work will have been staged in its entirety outside Russia. Boasting a predominantly Russian cast, Bard’s new and original production comes courtesy of…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., July 23, 2013) – A lucky contributor to the Rogovoy Report between today and August 5 will be selected randomly to receive a free dinner for two at Mezze Bistro + Bar (in the form of a $100 gift certificate) and a pair of tickets to see the world premiere of the new…
GABRIEL KAHANE’S CHAMBER-POP at MASS MOCA (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Chamber-pop singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane, whose songs betray his parallel life as a classical music composer, will be joined by Rob Moose of Bon Iver for a duo concert at MASS MoCA‘s multi-colored Pavilion, an outdoor sculpture of overlapping canopies located at the center of the…
(CHESTER, Mass.) – Chester Theatre Company is staging the British psychological thriller Tryst by English playwright Karoline Leach through Sunday, July 21, 2013, at the Chester Town Hall. Tryst is set in Edwardian London, where a handsome con-man — going by the name George Love — courts women, marries them, then takes their life savings…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – There will be an artist’s reception for A Distinct Vision, a 40-year retrospective of works by award-winning photographer Greg Gorman at Sohn Fine Art Gallery, running through September 30th, 2013, on Saturday, July 20, 2013, from 4 to 8pm. The exhibition, part of Sohn Fine Art’s Master Artist Series (MAS), features a…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Actress Karen Allen, who played the lead role of Marjorie in the original 1983 off-Broadway production, will direct William Mastrosimone’s Extremities running through Sunday, July 27, 2013, at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre. In William Mastrosimone’s psychological thriller, a young woman is violently attacked in her own home by a would-be rapist.…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Chamber-pop singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane, whose songs betray his parallel life as a classical music composer, will be joined by Rob Moose of Bon Iver for a duo concert at MASS MoCA‘s multi-colored Pavilion, an outdoor sculpture of overlapping canopies located at the center of the museum’s renovated 19th-century factory campus, on…
(BECKET, Mass.) – Contemporary ballet company Ballet BC from Vancouver and post-modern group Tere O’Connor Dance of New York City are at Jacob’s Pillow Dance from Wednesday, July 17, 2013, through Sunday, July 21, 2013. Led by artistic director Emily Molnar, Ballet BC performs three U.S. premieres: A.U.R.A. (Anarchist Unit Related to Art)…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – George Bernard Shaw’s timeless and incredibly influential play Pygmalion – which has influenced dozens of works of art since its 1912 debut, including Werner Herzog’s film Kaspar Hauser, Bernard Pomerance’s play The Elephant Man (as well as the subsequent David Lynch film version), and the Three Stooges’ 1935 slapstick comedy, Hoi Polloi…
