(BECKET, Mass.) – Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM (Kidd Pivot), the acclaimed contemporary dance company led by Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, performs her virtuosic and enigmatic work Dark Matters, a striking mystery thriller told through dance, at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival July 6-10. Pite joins choreographers Bill T. Jones, Merce Cunningham, Annie-B Parson, Paul Lazar, and…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass). – Mezze Bistro + Bar will host an art opening on Monday, July 11, featuring selected works from Berkshire-based artists Melissa Matsuki Lillie and Sean Riley, from 5 to 7 pm. The event is free and open to the public, with light snacks and a cash bar. The current Mezze Bistro exhibit is…
JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL Jane Comfort and Company June 29-July 3, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass., June 30, 2011) — “It’s always a surprise with Jane,” said Ella Baff, executive director of Jacob’s Pillow, as she welcomed audiences to Jane Comfort and Company’s performance in the Doris Duke Theatre on Thursday night. On…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — The Clark’s outdoor summer band concert series begins on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, at 6 with the acclaimed family bluegrass band the Doerfels, who performed at The Clark in 2009 to a packed audience and rave reviews. One of today’s most exciting and unique groups, The Doerfels perform lively progressive acoustic music…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Taylor Mali, renowned slam poetry performer, returns to Upstairs Live at the Triplex for his annual summer show on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 8 at the Triplex Cinema. This year’s one-man show, Open Heart Perjury, is described as “an evening of poetry embracing disruption in the service of clarity and…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Sienna Patti, founder and director of Sienna Gallery, will open SPQ Projects, a second gallery space that will feature contemporary visual art from a variety of internationally-acclaimed artists as well as some of the field’s most cutting-edge new figures, on Friday, July 1. The new gallery will be located at 53 Church…
The Fourth of July holiday weekend is filled with a diverse of array of entertainment choices in the greater Berkshire region. Of course the holiday is practically synonymous in recent years with James Taylor at Tanglewood, but if you don’t already have tickets to his performances you are pretty much shut out. Fortunately there is…
(Lenox, MA) –As You Like It, one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, runs through September 4 in Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre in Lenox, Mass. Abounding in fools, lovers, and cross-dressers, this is the sort of production that Shakespeare & Company does best. Directed by company artistic director Tony Simotes, this As You Like It is…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present a staged reading of Andrew Dolan’s The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King directed by Rod Menzies on Wednesday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock Daniel Arts Center McConnell Theater (84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, Mass.). The Many Mistresses of Martin…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Poet William Cullen Bryant celebrated the quintessential American landscape in his verse, “A Summer Ramble,” which, like many of his works, drew inspiration from the Berkshire countryside where he found solace in nature, away from the responsibilities of man. Sohn Fine Art Gallery presents A Summer Ramble, a group exhibition featuring 12…
