(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Experimental Icelandic band múm, Slavic Soul Party!, the Billy Harper Quintet, and 92-year-old cabaret singer Marilyn Maye headline the spring season at Hudson Hall, which also includes a three-concert tribute to jazz legend Charlie “Bird” Parker, the annual Hudson Jazz Festival, dancer/choreographers Caleb Teicher and Nic Gareiss, and Hudson’s own genius bandleader,…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Lisa Loomer’s celebrated play ROE – about the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established a woman’s right to an abortion — will serve as the centerpiece of WAM Theatre’s 2020 season, with performances in September and October. Also on tap are The Suffrage Project, devised by WAM Ensemble members…
The Julia Gottlieb Quartet performs its mix of music and jazz standards at the Egremont Barn in South Egremont, Mass., on Saturday, February 8, at 8pm. An eclectic artist and song stylist, Julia’s sound spans generations; think Norah Jones meets Chet Baker. Backing her silky, smooth vocals are pianist Benny Kohn, bassist Jason Schwartz,…
(BECKET, Mass.) – Dorrance Dance, Dance Heginbotham, Liz Lerman, and Canada’s Aszure Barton & Artists are just a few of the headliners at this summer’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, kicking off on Wed-Sun, June 24-28, with A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham, and running through Wed-Sat, August 19-22 with audience favorite MOMIX. Festival 2020 will feature world…
(NEW YORK, N.Y.) – Zol Zayn: Yiddish Poetry Into Song, a multimedia celebration of the rich tradition of turning great Yiddish poems into songs, starring Eleanor Reissa, Sarah Gordon, and Tsvey Brider, featuring Anthony Mordechai Zvi Russell and Dmitri Gaskin, will take place at Symphony Space on Wednesday, April 1, at 8pm. The concert will…
Gregory Maqoma, the South African choreographer of William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load, returns to the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., with Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro, performed by the Vuyani Dance Theatre, on Saturday, February 1, at 8pm. The work weaves a narrative of greed, power, and the…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Nineties alt-rockers Gin Blossoms will kick off the live performance season at the Mahaiwe on Friday, March 6 at 8pm. The season continues with jazz-folk vocalist Madeleine Peyroux on Friday, April 17 at 8pm; Hot Tuna with special guest David Grisman Trio on Monday, July 13 at 8pm, the Brubeck Brothers…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile makes her Tanglewood debut on Friday, June 26, at 7pm in the Shed. Two days later, on Sunday, June 28, at 2:30pm in the Shed, country-roots artists The Mavericks will share the bill with Mexican-American rock band Los Lobos. These concerts are the latest additions to…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Rodgers & Hammerstein classic South Pacific, one of the most celebrated musicals of all time, will kick off the mainstage 2020 season at Barrington Stage Company, running from June 24 through July 18. Based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific, the musical won 10 Tony…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Christopher Boy’s Communion, a new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, will receive its East Coast premiere in a staging by the new Great Barrington Public Theater at the Daniel Arts Center at Simon’s Rock College from June 17 to July 5, 2020, directed by the Public’s artistic director…
