A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Lynn Cohen, perhaps best known for her role as Magda in TV’s “Sex and the City,” stars as Grandma Kurnitz in Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy “Lost in Yonkers,” running at Barrington Stage Company from Thursday, July 16, 2015, through August 1. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and the…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – A pair of back-to-back events will showcase the sometimes difficult journey faced by Berkshire-born-and-raised singer-songwriter Meg Hutchinson, who is the subject of a documentary film screening at the Triplex on Thursday, July 16, 2015, at 7pm and who performs a solo concert at the Guthrie Center on Friday, July 17, at…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – The Villalobos Brothers, an ensemble that blends the richness of Mexican folk music with the intricate harmonies of jazz and classical, performs at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, on Saturday, July 18, 2015, at 8pm. Along with the music, which features “high-octane Mexican fiddling,” the group incorporates theatrical elements into…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider will perform classical works by Haydn and Schubert alongside contemporary compositions by avant-jazz guitarist/composer Bill Frisell, jazz pianist/composer Vijay Iyer, and Glenn Kotche of indie-rock band Wilco, in the Tannery Pond Concerts Series at the Darrow School, on Saturday, July 18 at 8pm. The quartet,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriter Iris DeMent brings her Grammy Award-nominated country-folk songs to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, July 19, at 8pm. Since her debut in 1992 with “Infamous Angel,” DeMent has been regarded in musical circles as an authentic living legend, the last of fourteen children born in a Pentecostal household in Arkansas, who…
TOSHI REAGON to PLAY MUSIC of PRINCE and MICHAEL JACKSON at MASS MoCA (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Soul singer and guitarist Toshi Reagon — who just last week triumphed at Jacob’s Pillow in “The Blues Project,” her collaboration with Dorrance Dance – returns to the Berkshires when she brings “The Love Session: Michael Jackson vs.…
(SHEFFIELD, Mass.) – Ruth Reichl, bestselling author, and former editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine and New York Times food critic, will talk at a brunch to benefit Berkshire Grown on Sunday, July 12, 2015, at 11am. Ruth Reichl began writing about food in 1972. In October 2015, Reichl’s newest book, My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra will offer the world premiere of a new work for French horn and string orchestra by the dynamic contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov (led by TMC Conducting Fellow Marzena Diakun), with principal horn James Sommerville of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in Ozawa Hall on Monday,…
(BECKET, Mass.) – Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (ND2), the expertly skilled companion company to the venerable Nederlands Dans Theater, returns to Jacob’s Pillow for the first time since 2007, performing a program of diverse works by Israel’s Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, Swedish choreographer Johan Inger, and two U.S. premieres by NDT house choreographers Paul…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Soul singer and guitarist Toshi Reagon — who just last week triumphed at Jacob’s Pillow in “The Blues Project,” her collaboration with Dorrance Dance – returns to the Berkshires when she brings “The Love Session: Michael Jackson vs. Prince,” a deep dive into the songbooks of two American soul-pop icons, to…
