(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Johnny Baseball, a quintessentially American musical that unearths the source of the Curse of the Red Sox and the secret to its triumphant end off Big Papi’s bat in 2004, will be presented on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival from Wednesday, July 24, 2013, through Saturday, August 3. Packed…
Concerts feature music by Julia Wolfe, Aphex Twin, David Lang, Michael Gordon(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The 12th Annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a utopian residency program dedicated entirely to the creation, study, and performance of the most adventurous music of our time, takes place now through Saturday, August 3,…
(BECKET, Mass.) – L-E-V, the contemporary dance company founded by Israel-based co-creators and artistic directors Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, will make its U.S. debut in the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival from Wednesday, July 24, to Sunday, July 28, 2013. The company performs the U.S. premiere of HOUSE, a hypnotic evening-length…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Miro Quartet make its Tannery Pond Concerts debut on Saturday, July 27, 2013, at 8pm, when they will perform music by Schubert, Puccini and Beethoven. Founded in 1995 at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Miro is considered to be one of America’s most distinguished chamber music groups. The quartet is comprised…
(ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The production of Oresteia, composed by Igor Stravinsky’s compatriot Sergey Taneyev, at the Bard SummerScape festival, from July 26, 2013, through August 4, marks the first time this towering work will have been staged in its entirety outside Russia. Boasting a predominantly Russian cast, Bard’s new and original production comes courtesy of…
GABRIEL KAHANE’S CHAMBER-POP at MASS MOCA (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Chamber-pop singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane, whose songs betray his parallel life as a classical music composer, will be joined by Rob Moose of Bon Iver for a duo concert at MASS MoCA‘s multi-colored Pavilion, an outdoor sculpture of overlapping canopies located at the center of the…
(CHESTER, Mass.) – Chester Theatre Company is staging the British psychological thriller Tryst by English playwright Karoline Leach through Sunday, July 21, 2013, at the Chester Town Hall. Tryst is set in Edwardian London, where a handsome con-man — going by the name George Love — courts women, marries them, then takes their life savings…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – There will be an artist’s reception for A Distinct Vision, a 40-year retrospective of works by award-winning photographer Greg Gorman at Sohn Fine Art Gallery, running through September 30th, 2013, on Saturday, July 20, 2013, from 4 to 8pm. The exhibition, part of Sohn Fine Art’s Master Artist Series (MAS), features a…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Chamber-pop singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane, whose songs betray his parallel life as a classical music composer, will be joined by Rob Moose of Bon Iver for a duo concert at MASS MoCA‘s multi-colored Pavilion, an outdoor sculpture of overlapping canopies located at the center of the museum’s renovated 19th-century factory campus, on…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Melissa James Gibson’s This – a comedy about friends, marriage, and kids – will receive its upstate New York premiere in a staging by the Proprietors Theatre Company at Henry Hudson Studios from Thursday, July 18, 2013, through Saturday, July 20, 2013, at 8pm. The play will be given a distinctly Hudson…
