(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Love/Sick, the latest play by Almost, Maine playwright John Cariani, will receive a staged reading by Berkshire Playwrights Lab on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at 7:30pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, Mass.). Love/Sick is composed of a series of ten funny, slightly twisted love stories…
(LENOX, Mass.) – John Harbison’s opera The Great Gatsby will be performed by the orchestra and chorus of Boston-based Emmanuel Music on Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 7:30 p.m., in Ozawa Hall, as part of Tanglewood’s 75th birthday tribute to the composer. The concert performance will be led by Emmanuel Music artistic director Ryan Turner…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Perennial MASS MoCA favorite and preeminent silent film accompanist Alloy Orchestra will perform a live score to the Douglas Fairbanks classic, The Black Pirate, on Saturday, July 13, 2013, at 8:30pm, at the museum’s brick-lined cinema courtyard, on the largest outdoor movie screen in New England. The Black Pirate screening will…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Landscape paintings by John MacDonald – one of the region’s most popular, prolific and respected landscape artists – are featured in an exhibition currently running at The Harrison Gallery through November 30, 2011. McDonald has staked out the Berkshires as his favorite terrain, painting portraits of the area as it appears in…
(TORONTO, ON) – Beginning Memorial Day Weekend 2012, the galleries at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., will be turned over to the largest U.S. survey of contemporary art from our neighbors to the north. Last week, at the Toronto International Art Fair, the museum released new details about Oh, Canada, its major survey of…
by Seth Rogovoy (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., October 17, 2011) – By summer 2014, a visit to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will be a substantially new and different experience than it is today. While The Clark will remain one of the few institutions in the world with a dual mission as both a museum…
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Richard Thompson October 14, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Simply put, Richard Thompson proved once again on Friday night at the Mahaiwe that he is a master – a virtuoso guitarist, an engaging performer, an acute songwriter, and an affecting singer. He puts all the elements together…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando will make a special free presentation at The Clark on Tuesday, October 18 at 6:30 pm focusing on his work on The Clark’s campus expansion program. Ando designed The Clark’s Stone Hill Center, which has quickly become an iconic part of The Clark’s campus. In this special…
(LENOX, Mass.) — Elayne Polly Bernstein Schwartz, a patron and supporter of many Berkshire cultural organizations whose name adorns a performance center at Shakespeare & Company, where she was a board member since 1998, died this past Tuesday, October 4, 2011. A memorial service for family and friends will be held in the Elayne P.…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Country-folk singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett, folk-gospel legend Mavis Staples, the Blind Boys of Alabama, James Brown sidemen Pee Wee Ellis and Maceo Parker, jazz fusion stars Spyro Gyra, English folk-rock pioneer Richard Thompson, and New Age ensemble Paul Winter Consort – most all of whom have won Grammy Awards — are the…
