A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Chapin Family Reunion, featuring performances by Tom Chapin, the Jen Chapin Trio, and the Chapin Sisters, will perform two nights at the Guthrie Center on Friday, July 24, and Saturday, July 25, 2015, at 8pm each night. The program is in memory of the late singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, Tom’s brother…
(BECKET, Mass.) – Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, the dynamic resident contemporary dance company of the Theaterhaus Stuttgart in Germany, will appear in its full company U.S. debut engagement in the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival from Wednesday, July 22, through Sunday, July 26, 2015. The program includes music by Dean Martin,…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The sounds of new music will resound throughout the campus, galleries, hallways and concert stages of MASS MoCA for the 14th summer in a row, as the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival brings together an all-star lineup of composers, performers, teachers, and fellows. Festival highlights include a performance of…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and pianists Ursula Oppens and Peter Serkin will be featured performers in Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music, running now through Monday, July 27, 2015, in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. The festival features programs curated by Oliver Knussen, John Harbison, and Michael Gandolfi; a memoriam tribute…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Broadway musical stars Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley will perform their favorite songs from the Broadway musicals they’ve starred in along with selections from the so-called Great American Songbook in “Broadway and Beyond” on the mainstage at Barrington Stage Company on Monday, July 27, at 8pm. Tony Award-nominee Marin Mazzie starred in…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Skivvies bring their adult-rated musical comedy act performed almost in the raw to Goodrich Hall on the Williams College campus as part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival on Sunday, July 26, and Monday, July 27, 2015, at 7:30pm. Lauren Molina (WTF’s “Ten Cents a Dance”) and Nick Cearley (“All Shook Up”)…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Accordion virtuoso Guy Klucevsek and Bang on a Can cellist Ashley Bathgate perform back-to-back duo concerts at PS21 on Saturday, July 25, at 8pm and on Sunday, July 26, at 2pm, respectively. Alex Meixner joins Guy Klucevsek for a program of “Accordion Solos and Duos” on Saturday. Klucevsek is one of the…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The first fully-staged American production of “The Wreckers” (1902-4) by Dame Ethel Smyth opens in the Fisher Center at Bard College as part of the Bard SummerScape festival on Friday, July 24, and runs for five performances through August 2, 2015. As a Victorian-born Englishwoman, and a bisexual suffragette at that, Smyth…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Soul singer Bettye LaVette, the self-described “overnight sensation after 50 years in the music business,” brings her impassioned, elastic vocals and her dynamic R&B remakes of pop and rock hits by the likes of the Who, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, the Animals, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams and Sinead O’Connor…
KLEZMATICS, SOCALLED, ALL-STARS HEADLINE YIDSTOCK, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL of KLEZMER and YIDDISH MUSIC (AMHERST, Mass.) – The fourth annual Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music opens on Thursday, July 16, at the Yiddish Book Center with an already sold-out concert by the Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics, and runs through Sunday, July 19, when members of all…
