JACOB’S PILLOW Jodi Melnick and David Neumann August 10-14, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass., August 10, 2011) – Fanfare, choreographed and performed by Jodi Melnick with Dennis O’Connor, is a limpid, fluid work with an innovative set designed by Burt Barr. Barr places two chrome fans on pedestals several yards away from each…
(LENOX, Mass.) – A full weekend’s program at Tanglewood includes an evening of Spanish music with Maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leading the BSO on Friday in a program dedicated to Spanish and Spanish-inspired music, featuring world-renowned guitar virtuoso and fellow Spaniard Pepe Romero making his Tanglewood debut. Saturday night’s program features cellist Yo-Yo Ma…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Singer and two-time Tony Award-winning actress Christine Ebersole, whose career ranges from soap operas to Saturday Night Live and from sitcoms to stage to feature films (including Amadeus, Mac and Me, ‘Til There Was You and My Favorite Martian) will perform a cabaret-style evening of American popular standards with a theme…
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – Music & More will re-create the experience of watching a silent film with live musical accompaniment on Saturday, August 13, at 8, at the historic Meeting House on the Village Green, where Ben Model, resident silent film accompanist of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, will provide a…
(Becket, Mass.) – Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Trisha Brown Dance Company with a commemorative program of works highlighting Brown’s inventive choreographic range in the Ted Shawn Theatre from August 10 through August 14. The program includes the 1973 work Spanish Dance, set to Bob Dylan’s version of Gordon Lightfoot’s…
TANGLEWOOD Festival of Contemporary Music Fromm Concert Ozawa Hall Thursday, August 4, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (LENOX, Mass.) – A mostly brilliant evening of new and recent compositions was capped by the debut of John Zorn’s dazzling À Rebours, a fun-house ride and reverie featuring solo cellist Fred Sherry and nine players, including…
Ludmila Pagliero and Takeru Coste of 3e Étage in ‘Processes of Intricacy’ (photo Cherylynn Tsushima) JACOB’S PILLOW 3e etage (Third Floor) Ted Shawn Theatre August 3-7, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – The concept of 3e étage’s engagement at Jacob’s Pillow, a mixed bill of works which interweave to form a single…
JACOB’S PILLOW Jonah Bokaer Doris Duke Theatre August 3, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – Jonah Bokaer possesses a syrupy yet precise movement quality and the sort of unaffected stage presence one might not have expected from such an arguably precocious individual — at 18, he was the youngest person ever to join…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Berkshire Actors Theatre, a new theater company founded by local actors and directors, bows with Four Dogs and a Bone, John Patrick Shanley’s show business comedy. The play follows a screenwriter, a producer, and two manipulative actresses as they simultaneously strive to take control of a floundering Hollywood film. Inflated egos, brazen…
The week’s cultural higlights offer eclecticism and diversity, ranging from new avant-garde classical music at Tanglewood as part of the Contemporary Music Festival to avant-garde dance with ping-pong balls at Jacob’s Pillow to avant-pop vocals by Lia Ices at Club Helsinki Hudson to luminous landscapes at Harrison Gallery to neo-Victorianism at Norman Rockwell Museum to…
