(LENOX, Mass.) – An artist’s reception will be held on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, from 11am to 5 p.m., for “Nature’s Silent Events,” featuring paintings by Kathryn Winstanley of Lenox and Kristin Emerson of Concord, Mass., at the Welles Gallery at the Lenox Library. The free exhibition, featuring watercolors, photography, and oil paintings, will be…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The 75th anniversary season of Tanglewood, the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will kick off with a performance by The Silk Road Ensemble with its founder, the world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, at Ozawa Hall on Friday, June 22, 2012, and again on Sunday, June 24. Performances begin at 8…
(LENOX, Mass.) – On Wednesday, June 13, 2012, The Mount will host debut novelist Francesca Segal for a reading and discussion of her debut novel, The Innocents, a modern-day recasting of Edith Wharton’s 1921 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Age of Innocence. The reading, discussion and book-signing will take place at 5pm. The event is…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Shakespeare & Company founding member and director of training Dennis Krausnick takes on the demanding role of the aging monarch, King Lear, in the play of that title, being given an experimental treatment set in 1906 Russia in Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre from Saturday, June 16, through August 19, 2012. Set…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Afghanistan To France; 6,000 Miles of Portraits, an exhibition of photographs by Molly and Aurélien de St André taken on a road trip in a vintage 1960s Volkswagen van from war-torn Central Asia to present-day France, is on display at LOCAL beginning Saturday, May 19, 2012, and running through June 22. There…
(LENOX, Mass.) – In its programming for the coming year – the 150th anniversary of author Edith Wharton’s birth – The Mount will pay tribute to Wharton by highlighting her life, work, and achievements under the umbrella theme of Edith Wharton: 21st Century Muse. The Mount’s official opening day is this Saturday, May 5. Highlights…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Cantilena Chamber Choir presents Soul & Spirit: Karl Jenkins’ Sacred Songs, a concert for chorus and orchestra, on Sunday, April 15, at 3 p.m. at Trinity Church, Lenox. The concert showcases music by the Welsh composer and musician whose career has straddled the worlds of jazz, rock, and classical music, including…
Photos by Kevin Sprague/Courtesy Shakespeare & Company (LENOX, Mass.) – Founding Shakespeare & Company artistic director Tina Packer’s production of Molière’s farce The Learned Ladies opens this weekend with a special brunch, a talkback with The Learned Ladies translator and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur, and a colorful display of…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club announced the appointment of Tanya Matthews to the position of Wedding Sales Executive. Matthews will be responsible for the sales and coordination of year-round weddings and social events at Cranwell Resort. Bringing more than 16 years of catering and sales experience, Matthews has served in various…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Shakespeare & Company presents a new and re-imagined production of David Sedaris’s The SantaLand Diaries, running Friday, December 2, 2011 through December 30, in the Elayne Bernstein Theatre. Company actor Ryan Winkles (The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Mystery of Irma Vep) stars as Crumpet the Elf in the one-man show, which…
