(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – New York City-based Parsons Dance – noted for its uplifting, athletic, engaging contemporary style that often commissions new scores by contemporary composers, including Dave Matthews, Steely Dan, Juan Garcia Esquival, Michael Gordon of Bang on a Can, John Corigliano, and Phil Woods, as well as such standbys as Bach, Schubert, and Rossini…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – After seventeen years as a corporate fundraiser, Peter Hussey traded his gray flannel suit for an easel and became a full time watercolor artist. He succeeded in his new craft by painting the things he knew and liked best – the architectural details of old New England buildings. As a frustrated architect,…
(EAST OTIS, Mass.) – Triple Shadow’s site-specific, indoor/outdoor adaptation of William Luce’s one-woman play, The Belle Of Amherst, performed by Mari Andrejco as Emily Dickinson and directed by Beth Skinner, is extending its run through Sunday, September 4, due to popular and critical acclaim. The unique location of the production, at Triple Shadow’s Performance Barn…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Los Angeles-based Arabella Ensemble performs music of Debussy, Clarke, Piazzolla and Beethoven on Saturday, September 3, 2011, at 8pm in the Concerts at Tannery Pond series on the grounds of Darrow School. For this concert, the gruop will be joined by series artistic director Christian Steiner, who will play piano…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The Berkshire Theatre Festival will literally be just that, when the comic drama Birthday Boy by Chris Newbound, of Williamstown, Mass., has its world premiere in the Unicorn Theatre at Berkshire Theatre Festival beginning Tuesday, August 30. 2011, running through Saturday, September 3. The play will then reopen on Thursday, September 29 and…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — While hailing the seven-month tenure of Maria Mingalone as interim executive director of the Berkshire Museum as a time in which the museum has been “dynamic” and “thriving,” the museum’s trustees named Van W. Shields, most recently director of the Culture and Heritage Museums in Rock Hill, S.C., as executive director, effective…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for the New Yorker, will present a free lecture entitled The Critic as Artist in 2011: Updating Oscar Wilde, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Sunday, September 11 at 3 pm. In this special lecture, Clark Prize winner Peter Schjeldahl will discuss whether dedicated art…
JACOB’S PILLOW Mark Morris Dance Group Ted Shawn Theatre August 24-28, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – Mark Morris celebrates his 30th year as Artistic Director of Mark Morris Dance Group this year, an incredible achievement in the world of modern dance. The prolific Morris is the recipient of numerous awards and has…
TANGLEWOOD Ozawa Hall Brad Mehldau Thursday, August 25, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (LENOX, Mass.) – Roll over, Cole Porter, tell Richard Rodgers the news. The last page has finally been turned on the so-called Great American Songbook. And good riddance to it once and for all. I base this observation on Brad Mehldau’s solo…
Kyle Abraham and Abraham.in.Motion (photo Steven Schreiber) JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE Kyle and Camille Doris Duke Theatre August 24-28, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – Kyle Abraham and Camille A. Brown have much in common. Two of New York’s up-and-coming contemporary choreographers, both hits during Jacob’s Pillow’s 2010 summer season, they both make work that…
