(LENOX, Mass.) – The Berkshire Jewish Film Festival, one of the longest running in the United States, begins its 25th consecutive season on Monday, July 11, 2011, and runs for seven consecutive Mondays ending on August 22, in the Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial High School. Twelve movies will be featured from the United States,…
(LENOX, Mass.) – On Saturday, July 9, 2011, from 10 to 4, the Lenox Garden Club presents its 21st annual tour of gardens and houses. The self-guided tour will be held rain or shine. Visitors will see six properties in the historic Berkshire towns of Richmond and West Stockbridge: a spectacular garden on 13 acres…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Sienna Patti, founder and director of Sienna Gallery, will open SPQ Projects, a second gallery space that will feature contemporary visual art from a variety of internationally-acclaimed artists as well as some of the field’s most cutting-edge new figures, on Friday, July 1. The new gallery will be located at 53 Church…
(Lenox, MA) –As You Like It, one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, runs through September 4 in Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre in Lenox, Mass. Abounding in fools, lovers, and cross-dressers, this is the sort of production that Shakespeare & Company does best. Directed by company artistic director Tony Simotes, this As You Like It is…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The award-winning musical satire group Capitol Steps returns to Cranwell Resort, Spa at Golf Club for the fifth consecutive summer, this weekend, performing from July 2 to September 3, as the group celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with the release of its newest album, Desperate House Members. The troupe will perform a variety…
(LENOX, Mass.) – National Book Award finalist Kevin Young will read from his poetry at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s historic estate, on Saturday, July 9. The event includes a reading, reception, and book signing and will begin at 4. A 1992 graduate of Harvard College, a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (1992-1994) and the recipient…
(LENOX, Mass.) – A visit to Tanglewood can sometimes seem like a major financial investment, with Shed seats topping out at over $100 apiece for some concerts. But the kind folks at the Boston Symphony Orchestra make it a point to offer plenty of ways for everyone, especially year-round Berkshire residents and families, to enjoy…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Artist and designer Karen Beckwith explains the challenges and triumphs she faced in turning a room in a Gilded Age mansion into “a flexible space for meditation, yoga, journaling and drawing, reading, napping, and occasionally hiding…” Ventfort Hall, the Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, has been transformed room by room by…
REALIST PAINTING at HARRISON GALLERY Generation II by Judith Solomon The Harrison Gallery will present a group show of realist painting by five masters of the genre – Hale Johnson, John MacDonald, Nick Patten, Judith Solomon, Kim Denise, and Carol Gobin, opening with an artists reception on Saturday, June 4, at 5. The exhibition runs…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced a new conductor lineup for five of the BSO’s 21 concerts to take place during the 2011 Tanglewood season. Charles Dutoit will lead the BSO’s July 8 Opening Night Gala Concert — an all-Italian program with excerpts from Bellini’s Norma and Verdi’sI lombardi, plus music of Rossini and Respighi…
