(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Acclaimed singer-songwriters Mary Chapin Carpenter and Marc Cohn will team up for a joint concert featuring their own songs plus personal favorites by other artists when they share the stage at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Thursday, July 25, 2013, at 8pm. Over the course of her career, Mary Chapin…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass,) – The already crowded summer theater season gets just a bit more crowded this week when Mass Live Arts, a festival presenting three New York City-based alt-theater companies, takes a bow at Simon’s Rock College. Radiohole, New York City Players, and Half Straddle will be performing from Thursday, July 18, 2013, through…
BRIAN BROOKS MOVING COMPANY at JACOB’S PILLOW (BECKET, Mass.) – The dynamic contemporary dance ensemble Brian Brooks Moving Company presents a daring program featuring larger-than-life stage design, bold costuming, and full-out movement in the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance from Wednesday, July 10 to Sunday, July 14, 2013. Led by choreographer and…
(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…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The 19th century will rub shoulders with the late 20th on Saturday, April 20, 2013, at 6pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center when the Close Encounters With Music chamber series features back-to-back piano trios by Franz Schubert and Paul Schoenfield, performed by pianist Jeffrey Swann, violinist Erin Keefe, and series…
BRAD MEHLDAUD and CHRIS THILE MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Saturday, April 13, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – There was one perfect moment in the unusual duo concert featuring pianist Brad Mehldau and mandolinist-singer Chris Thile at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday night. It occurred right at the beginning of…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – It was common in the eighteenth century to accompany an evening of fine dining with chamber music. On Sunday, January 20, 2013, Fiori Restaurant revives that tradition with the first in a projected series of Candlelight Concerts, featuring Schubert’s C major Quintet for two cellos played by Boston Symphony alumnus and…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Well-known Berkshire chef Daire Rooney has landed at Allium Restaurant + Bar. Rooney is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking work as executive chef of the well-loved French bistro Brix Wine Bar in Pittsfield, Mass., where she managed the kitchen for four years. Since November, Rooney has been changing up the…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – There will be an opening reception for an exhibition of paintings by New York City-based artist Alexa Saxton Thomas at Bizalion’s Fine Food on Saturday, November 24, 2012, from 5 to 7pm. Having lived, worked, and exhibited in Paris – as well as Rome and Boston – Thomas chose Bizalion’s as…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Hagar and Miriam. Judith and Hannah. The Bible is full of stories – often overlooked, underwritten or ignored – about women. The Patriarchs get all the play, but there’s plenty of drama in the stories of the Matriarchs and their sisters and cousins. Which is what motivated songwriter-vocalist-violinist Alicia Jo Rabins…
