(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A simulated horde of zombies will descend on downtown Pittsfield on Saturday, October 8, 2011. The Berkshire-based Zombie Action Committee will present the 2nd Annual Pittsfield Zombie Pub Crawl that evening from 5pm to midnight. Last year’s event, promoted almost exclusively through Facebook, proved extremely popular and was generally considered to be…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — In a special “One-Night-Only” event, Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema will screen Red State, the controversial thriller written and directed by Kevin Smith, on Sunday, September 25, 2011, at 7 p.m., followed by an interactive webcast Q&A session with Smith from Los Angeles. Smith’s post-show Q&A will be digitally streamed, live, from Quentin…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Former New York Times columnist and theater critic Frank Rich will speak at the Colonial Theatre on Sunday, October 9 at 2 pm. WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s morning host Joe Donahue will moderate the conversation with Rich, who now writes a monthly column for New York magazine. As the former chief theater…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Nearly 100 dancers participated in a LIVE UNITED flash mob during Pittsfield’s Third Thursday event on September 15, 2011 at 6 pm at the intersection of North and Eagle Streets. While dark clouds threatened and strong winds brought cool temperatures, the dancers quickly warmed up and shed their jackets and sweaters to…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Grammy Award-winning cabaret artist and songwriter Amanda McBroom makes an encore engagement with Michael Brourman at Barrington Stage Company for two performances Friday, September 23 and Saturday, September 24, 2011, at 8pm at BSC Stage 2 (36 Linden Street, Downtown Pittsfield). McBroom first came to the attention of the music public when…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC) is closing in on a record-setting single ticket sale total of $1 million for the first time in the theater’s 17-year history for the 2011 season. The landmark is expected to be passed this weekend with cabaret singer Amanda McBroom’s two performances on Friday and Saturday, September 23…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — Grace Kelly, Phil Woods, Armen Donelian, Gregory Caputo, and the Berkshires Jazz Youth Ensemble will be among the performers at the 2011 Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, October 7-20. Now in its seventh year, the festival comprises some two dozen concerts and events throughout downtown Pittsfield. In addition to headline concerts on Oct. 14-15,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — While hailing the seven-month tenure of Maria Mingalone as interim executive director of the Berkshire Museum as a time in which the museum has been “dynamic” and “thriving,” the museum’s trustees named Van W. Shields, most recently director of the Culture and Heritage Museums in Rock Hill, S.C., as executive director, effective…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass., August 20, 2011) – The third annual Word X Word Festival came to a conclusion on Saturday night with a well-attended concert at the Colonial Theatre featuring musical performers Mia Dyson and the band Kingsley Flood and the phenomenal spoken-word stylings of Buddy Wakefield. Part stand-up comic, part wild man, and all heart,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts Gallery presents “Hands, Hearts, and the Sacred,” an exhibition of Judaic art by Barbara Barron and Wendy A. Rabinowitz, from August 27 to October 8, 2011. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, August 27, from 3 to 5, with Jewish and Yiddish music and…
