A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
This week’s cultural highlights in the Berkshires include a concert by long-running indie-rockers They Might Be Giants; a jazz-fueled chamber concert featuring the music of Kurt Weill; a reception for an exhibition of gorgeous and technically virtuosic photography of birds in flight by Cassandra Sohn; a free lecture by Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for the…
The highlights of the weekend’s entertainment include the ever-popular Parsons Dance, returning to PS21 in Chatham, N.Y., the extended run of The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman show about Emily Dickinson, at Triple Shadow in East Otis, Mass.; the annual Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival at Tanglewood featuring an abundance of female talent this year;…
The weekend’s cultural highlights in the Berkshires includes a residency by the Trisha Brown Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow marking the company’s 40th anniversary; an all-star lineup of virtuoso talent at Tanglewood including cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Emanuel Ax, and vocalist Stephanie Blythe; the innovative piano improvisations of Ben Model applied to silent film; an…
Written by Seth Rogovoy Photography by Stan Grossfeld/Courtesy the Boston Globe Vintage photos by Henry Diltz, Courtesy James Taylor It’s a gorgeous, early June morning, and James Taylor has just returned from his daily morning row on a nearby lake. Still wearing his wader boots, an old pair of jeans, a plaid, short-sleeve…
The week’s cultural higlights offer eclecticism and diversity, ranging from new avant-garde classical music at Tanglewood as part of the Contemporary Music Festival to avant-garde dance with ping-pong balls at Jacob’s Pillow to avant-pop vocals by Lia Ices at Club Helsinki Hudson to luminous landscapes at Harrison Gallery to neo-Victorianism at Norman Rockwell Museum to…
This week’s cultural highlights include a dual art opening at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield that includes photography by the great Gregory Crewdson, whom the Berkshires can lay claim to both residentially and artistically, as much of his work is staged and shot here; experimental Latin pop by Helado Negro at Club Helsinki Hudson; the kickoff…
With the summer season in full force, the choices for theater, dance, and music lovers are abundant this weekend, ranging from New Orleans legend Dr. John at the Mahaiwe to the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA to the BSO at Tanglewood to bluesman Eric Bibb at Club Helsinki to zoe…
This weekend’s cultural highlights in the Berkshires include the opening of one of William Shakespeare’s greatest hits, Romeo and Juliet, at Shakespeare & Company; an innovative dance production by Canadian dance icon Louise Lecavalier that makes use of the intense proto-punk music of Iggy Pop at Jacob’s Pillow; the annual Berkshire Playwrights Lab Festival of…
From avant-garde dance to African-American poetry, from Greek myth to Jewish film, from slide guitar to klezmer to Broadway show tunes, the Berkshires has it all and more this weekend. Here are just a few highlights of what’s coming: KIDD PIVOT PERFORMS DANCE THRILLER at JACOB’s PILLOW Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM (Kidd Pivot), the…
The Fourth of July holiday weekend is filled with a diverse of array of entertainment choices in the greater Berkshire region. Of course the holiday is practically synonymous in recent years with James Taylor at Tanglewood, but if you don’t already have tickets to his performances you are pretty much shut out. Fortunately there is…
