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Barbara Carroll to Play Intimate Cabaret on Mahaiwe Stage

Barbara Carroll

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Legendary jazz pianist, composer, and vocalist Barbara Carroll, accompanied by her longtime musical partner, the bassist Jay Leonhart, performs at the Mahaiwe on Sunday, July 24 at 7. With a career that has spanned some 65 years, Carroll has long been regarded as one of the most fascinating purveyors of swinging…

Millay Colony Hosts Open House on Saturday, July 23

Newspaper editor Rex Smith, Calliope Nicholas and writer Marion Roach Smith attended last year's Millay Colony Open House (photo by Seth Rogovoy)

(AUSTERLITZ, N.Y.) – The Millay Colony for the Arts is holding its annual Open House benefit party on Saturday, July 23, from 5 to 8. This year’s event will feature live music, dancers, open studios, alumni art for show and for sale, and local food and wine. Critical favorites Christy and Emily from Brooklyn will…

New Music Festival Celebrates First Decade

A gallery performance from Bang on a Can's 2010 Summer Music Festival (courtesy MASS MoCA)

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – From Wednesday, July 13, through Saturday, July 30, 2011, Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present the tenth annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA. The Festival is dedicated entirely to programming today’s most innovative new music and includes public performances, recitals, and lectures, plus workshops…

At Shakespeare & Company, a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in Black and White

Susannah Millonzi is Juliet and David Gelles is Romeo in Shakespeare & Company's new production of 'Romeo and Juliet' (photo by Kevin Sprague)

(LENOX, Mass.) – Romeo and Juliet, one of the greatest and most influential love stories of all time, and perhaps William Shakespeare’s most popular play, is being given an updated, innovative treatment in a new production directed by Daniela Varon at Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre now through September 3. Generations never tire of the…

New Sol Schwartz Exhibition Celebrates Performing Arts in the Berkshires

Illustration of Yo-Yo Ma by Sol Schwartz. ©Sol Schwartz. All rights reserved.

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) –There couldn’t be a more fitting summertime exhibition than “Sol Schwartz: Drawing in the Dark,” featuring the well-known artist’s vibrant, spontaneous drawings, that have captured the beauty and excitement of music, theater and dance at such performing arts centers as Tanglewood, Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, and Barrington Stage Company,…

Open Studios of Washington County promotes ‘Artful Living’

Artist Patty Happy in her studio

(WASHINGTON COUNTY, N.Y.) –Tucked away in farmhouses, barns and old factories throughout the rural villages of Salem, Cambridge, Eagle Bridge, Hartford and Greenwich, N.Y., fifteen of Washington County, N.Y.’s finest professional artists invite the public into their studios for a free, self-guided tour as part of the third Open Studios of Washington County biennial on…

Louise Lecavalier Rocks to Iggy Pop at Jacob’s Pillow

Louise Lecavalier and Patrick Lamothe in 'Children' (photo by Andre Cornellier)

(BECKET, Mass.) – Iggy Pop is perhaps best known as one of the most intensely physical rock ‘n’ roll singers, often flaunting his buff physique by performing shirtless, and in his younger, wilder days, even known to roll around in broken glass onstage. Therefore it’s only appropriate that iconic Canadian contemporary dancer Louise Lecavalier performs…

The Clark’s French Masterworks Visit Their Homeland

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919), Girl with a Fan, c. 1879. Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 54 cm. © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.595

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Continuing its commitment to global outreach and cultural exchange, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute opens the exhibition La Collection Clark à Giverny, de Manet à Renoir at the Musée des impressionnismes in Giverny, France, as part of the international tour of masterpieces from its collection of nineteenth-century European paintings. Open…

Williamstown Theatre Festival Launches South-to-North Roundtrip Shuttle Service

The '62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College is the summer home of the Williamstown Theatre Festival

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) launches FestEx, a shuttle service from Great Barrington to Williamstown, for the month of July for Saturday matinees beginning July 16 through July 30. In an effort to make the Festival more accessible to all Berkshire residents and tourists, the Festival has committed itself to reaching out to…

Playwrights Lab to Hold Annual New Short Play Festival

Dan Lauria

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present the Berkshire Playwrights Lab New Play Benefit on Friday, July 15 at 7:30 pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, Mass.)  The benefit will feature world premiere readings of new short plays written especially for the occasion by Joe Cacaci, Richard…