(BECKET, Mass.) – South Korea’s award-winning contemporary company LDP/Laboratory Dance Project headlines Korea Week, a special program focusing on dance from Korea, at Jacob’s Pillow from Wednesday, July 27 to Sunday, July 31, 2001. Korea Week also includes a free performance by the Korean Traditional Music and Dance Institute on the Indoor/Outdoor stage on Thursday,…
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Dr. John and the Lower 911 Saturday, July 23, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Dr. John was smart – or lucky. When he created his sound, his persona, and his approach back about 40 years ago, he did it in such a way as to make…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Singers Jay Farrar and Mia Dyson, authors Wesley Stace aka John Wesley Harding, Julie Klausner, and Jami Attenberg, and a half-dozen National Poetry Slam champs, including Buddy Wakefield, Rachel McKibbens and the Berkshires’ own Taylor Mali, will be featured at the 2011 Word X Word Festival, a week of live performances celebrating…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — The Clark’s chamber music series begins with the acclaimed Borealis String Quartet on Tuesday, August 2 at 8 pm. For their concert at The Clark, the Borealis String Quartet will perform Haydn’s Quartet in G Major, Opus 76, No. 1; the premiere performance of local composer Stephen Dankner’s Quartet No. 12; and…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House plays on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival now through July 31, 2011. The production of the 19th-century critique of marriage features actors Lili Taylor (High Fidelity, Six Feet Under) and Lily Rabe (Crimes of the Heart at WTF; Law and Order and Saving Grace…
(THE BERKSHIRES, Mass.) – Merriam-Webster introduced the word “staycation” into its dictionary just as the recession officially ended in 2009 and more vacationers were opting to stay at or closer to home. With gas prices still high and the aftereffects of the recession still being felt by many, staycation is a buzzword that is here…
Corinna May as Mary in ‘Memory of Water’ SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre Runs through Sept 4, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy Photos by Kevin Sprague/Courtesy Shakespeare & Company (LENOX, Mass., July 21, 2011) – Never in memory has such a collective of serio-comic…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Oliver Goldsmith’s 18th-century bawdy comedy She Stoops to Conquer is being revived on the Main Stage of the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) in a production helmed by former WTF artistic director Nicholas Martin that runs from July 27 through August 7, 2011. The play stars Brooks Ashmanskas (Knickerbocker at WTF; Promises, Promises)…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The outdoor Rose Footprint Theatre at Shakespeare & Company marks its 10th anniversary season with The Venetian Twins, a commedia dell’arte-flavored show featuring swordfights, whimsical costumes, ridiculous antics, hilarious music, and more. An outlandish comedy reminiscent of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, The Venetian Twins features a bevy of original catchy songs,…
(BECKET, Mass.) – Choreographer Zoe Scofield and visual artist Juniper Shuey, co-directors of the Seattle-based company zoe | juniper, return to Jacob’s Pillow to perform the world premiere of A Crack in Everything on July 20-24. Created in part during a Creative Development Residency at Jacob’s Pillow, A Crack in Everything – whose title is…
