(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The seminal 1971 drama, Moonchildren, by playwright Michael Weller, kicks off the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s Unicorn Stage season this week, in a production directed by actress Karen Allen. The play, often regarded as one of the definitive dramatic portrayals of young American life in the mid-1960s, runs June 28 through July 16.…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The award-winning musical satire group Capitol Steps returns to Cranwell Resort, Spa at Golf Club for the fifth consecutive summer, this weekend, performing from July 2 to September 3, as the group celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with the release of its newest album, Desperate House Members. The troupe will perform a variety…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Those Two Guys, a comedy duo featuring Pat Ferri and Dave Cox, bring their unique act, “Comedy for A New Depression,” to the tent at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century on Saturday, July 2, at 7 pm. Incorporating juggling, unicycling, tumbling, outrageous physical feats, and dangerous stunts, this family-friendly show will…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Soprano Christine Brewer, best known for singing Wagnerian opera, will let her musical hair down when she performs a recital of American songs by the likes of Charles Ives, Virgil Thomson, Ernest Charles, Walter Kramer and Harold Arlen, accompanied by pianist Craig Rutenberg, on July 2 at 8 in the Concerts…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Harrison Gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary starting Saturday, July 2, with a retrospective exhibition featuring artists whose work has been shown in the gallery over the past ten years, including such prominent names as Stephen Hannock, John MacDonald, Hale Johnson, Nick Patten, Wayne Thiebaud and Susie Cronin. All four rooms of the…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — The Clark’s Stone Hill Terrace Café has been honored with Yankee magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award for “Best Museum Lunch Spot.” Offering a stunning view of the Berkshires, the Stone Hill Café is open seasonally for lunch, weather permitting. Outdoor patio-style seating is available on the terrace overlooking the Taconic Range and the…
Keigwin + Company dancers (photo by Christopher Duggan) Jacob’s Pillow Dance Keigwin + Company June 22-26, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass., June 23, 2011) – It is not uncommon to leave a theater after a contemporary dance performance and overhear one patron say to another, “I didn’t get it.” As dance has become…
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève Ted Shawn Theatre June 23, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass., June 23, 2011) – The curtain rose on the U.S. premiere of Joelle Bouvier’s Romeo and Juliet last night in the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow to reveal a single figure. A…
In addition to numerous play openings at the region’s theaters (which we will be reporting on in coming days and weeks), this weekend features a diverse array of cultural events, including Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass.; the Boston Early Music Festival at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Mass.; a…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – “The Grass is Green,” a solo exhibition by Williamstown, Mass., artist Karin Stack, opens Thursday, June 23, 2011, at MCLA Gallery 51. The exhibition, which investigates the idealized, unnatural, fake landscape, remains on view through Sunday, July 24. An opening reception, free and open to the public, takes place on Thursday,…
