(LENOX, Mass.) – There will be an opening reception for Lucy MacGillis: Recent Paintings from Italy, with the artist, a Berkshire native, at Hoadley Gallery on Saturday, July 6, 2013, from 5 pm to 7 pm. The exhibition runs from July 4 through August 1. Lucy MacGillis (b.1977, U.S.A.) has been painting in Italy since…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Bjorn Somlo, chef-owner of Nudel Restaurant in Lenox, has been nominated one of the top 100 chefs for The People’s Best New Chef award for FOOD & WINE magazine. This is Somlo’s second nomination for an award honoring up-and-coming innovators who have run their own kitchens for five years or fewer. Somlo…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Award-winning playwright David Ives’s new adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s classic farce, The Liar, opens on Friday, February 1, 2013, and runs through Sunday, March 24, 2013, in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. The production, directed by founding member Kevin G. Coleman, follows up last winter’s run…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Shakespeare & Company’s annual – and final – run of David Sedaris’ irreverent Christmas memoir, The Santaland Diaries, opens on Friday, November 30, 2012, at 7:30 p.m., and runs through Sunday, December 30, 2012, in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. This year, longtime company member David Joseph Hansen plays Sedaris’s less-than-merry autobiographical…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Grown’s 14th Annual Harvest Supper celebrating local food and farms will take place on Monday, September 24, 2012, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Eastover Hotel and Resort in Lenox, Mass. The Farm to Table feast features dishes prepared by local Berkshire Grown member chefs using fresh ingredients from local…
Shakespeare & Company Satchmo at the Waldorf Written by Terry Teachout Starring John Douglas Thompson Directed by Gordon Edelstein Review by Seth Rogovoy (LENOX, Mass., August 17, 2012) – There is nary a wrong nor a false note played in Terry Teachout’s Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson as Louis Armstrong, directed by…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Satchmo at the Waldorf, a new one-man play starring OBIE Award-winner John Douglas Thompson and written by critically acclaimed author, jazz critic, and Louis Armstrong biographer Terry Teachout, receives its New England premiere beginning this week at Shakespeare & Company in a production directed by Gordon Edelstein, the award-winning artistic director of…
(LENOX, Mass.) — On Monday, August 6, 2012, Shakespeare & Company surpassed $1 million in ticket sales for the 2012-2013 performance season, the earliest date the theater troupe has reached that figure in its 35 year history. This feat also puts Shakespeare & Company 22.5% ahead of its box office totals from last year’s performance…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Wharton Salon joins The Mount’s year-long celebration of Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday by putting Edith Wharton herself onstage this year in The Inner House, running from Wednesday, August 15 through Sunday, August 26, 2012, at The Mount. Adapted by Dennis Krausnick from Wharton’s 1934 autobiography, A Backward Glance, actress Tod Randolph…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Pearl, a modern retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s timeless novel The Scarlet Letter, told from the viewpoint of the daughter of Hester Prynne, in operatic form and with a libretto by feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan, will get its first workshop production in the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company on Monday, August…
