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Shaker Village to Host Peace Conference, Paul Winter Concert

Paul Winter

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — The Center for Peace through Culture and Hancock Shaker Village will co-present Pathways to Peaceful Living: Tools and Explorations, a one-day peace conference and concurrent festival on Saturday, September 17, 2011, from 9 to 5:30 at Hancock Shaker Village, with a concert by Grammy-winning composer Paul Winter titled “A Celebration of the…

WTF Revives 18th Century Comedy ‘She Stoops to Conquer’

Holley Fain

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Oliver Goldsmith’s 18th-century bawdy comedy She Stoops to Conquer is being revived on the Main Stage of the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) in a production helmed by former WTF artistic director Nicholas Martin that runs from July 27 through August 7, 2011. The play stars Brooks Ashmanskas (Knickerbocker at WTF; Promises, Promises)…

ArtBerkshires Will Curate Your Weekend of Culture

Lola Brooks atop her jewel-encrusted tuk-tuk (courtesy Sienna Gallery)

(The Berkshires, July 20, 2011) – ArtBerkshires, an organization working to bring together professionals in the arts living and working in the Berkshires, presents the first of two curated weekends taking place in the summer of 2011. The weekend will feature studio and home visits with visual artists, dance and theater performances, and discussions with…

Blues Legend Eric Bibb Performs at Club Helsinki on Friday, July 22

Bluesman Eric Bibb

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Blues legend Eric Bibb performs at Club Helsinki in Hudson, N.Y., on Friday, July 22, at 9. The Grammy- and W.C. Handy-nominated gentleman of song has brought his thoughtful music, soulful voice and blues-laced guitar picking to listeners around the world over the past four decades. Bibb has deep roots in American…

Shakespeare’s Rose Footprint Theatre Celebrates 10th Anniversary with ‘The Venetian Twins’

Alexandra Lincoln and Kelly Galvin (foreground) with David Joseph (photo by Kevin Sprague)

(LENOX, Mass.) – The outdoor Rose Footprint Theatre at Shakespeare & Company marks its 10th anniversary season with The Venetian Twins, a commedia dell’arte-flavored show featuring swordfights, whimsical costumes, ridiculous antics, hilarious music, and more. An outlandish comedy reminiscent of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, The Venetian Twins features a bevy of original catchy songs,…

Seattle-Based zoe|juniper Presents World Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow

Zoe Scofield (photo zoe | juniper)

(BECKET, Mass.) – Choreographer Zoe Scofield and visual artist Juniper Shuey, co-directors of the Seattle-based company zoe | juniper, return to Jacob’s Pillow to perform the world premiere of A Crack in Everything on July 20-24. Created in part during a Creative Development Residency at Jacob’s Pillow, A Crack in Everything – whose title is…

Musical Revue to Benefit Shakespeare & Co’s Education and Training Programs

Shakespeare & Company member Deborah Grausman produces and performs in 'Broadway in the Berkshires'

(LENOX, Mass.) — Broadway in the Berkshires, a musical revue featuring an array of Broadway’s greatest hits performed by an all-star cast of Broadway talent, takes place at Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre on Monday, August 15 at 6. Proceeds will go to Shakespeare & Company’s internationally acclaimed Education and Training Programs. Producer and company…

Tanglewood Weekend Features Baroque, Beethoven, Brahms and Ravel by Thibaudet

Susan Graham (photo by Dario Acosta)

(LENOX, Mass.) – Young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts Friday, July 22, as he and the orchestra are joined by renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham for an all-Baroque program including vocal excerpts from Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride and arias from Handel’s Alcina and Ariodonte. Handel’s vocal music forms the heart of…

New Orleans Legend Dr. John to Perform at the Mahaiwe

Dr. John

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Dr. John and the Lower 911 will perform on Saturday, July 23 at 8 at the Mahaiwe. A 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack, Jr., better known by the stage name Dr. John, is an American musical icon, in many ways the living incarnation of…