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Little Cinema Tells a Big Story

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema will screen The Story of Film: An Odyssey, every Thursday at 7 p.m., beginning October 18, 2012, and running through December 13 (there will be no showing on November 22 in observance of Thanksgiving). The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an unprecedented cinematic event, an epic journey…

Sandra Bernhard Stands Up at the Colonial Theatre

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Those who missed Sandra Bernhard’s fabulous, intimate gig at Club Helsinki Hudson in August get a second chance to see the brilliant commentator and witty observer of social mores and pop culture when the comedian and singer performs at the Colonial Theatre on Saturday, October 20, 2012, at 8pm. Bernhard began her…

Pittsfield Jazz Festival Takes Place in Early October

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Vocalist Giacomo Gates, flutist Ali Ryerson, and trumpeter Adam O’Farrill headline the 8th annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, taking place Thursday, October 4, 2012 through Saturday, October 13, 2012, at assorted locations in downtown Pittsfield. The music spans the spectrum of jazz, and includes performances by the New England Jazz Ensemble and the…

Amanda McBroom Does Jacques Brel in Barrington Stage Cabaret

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Grammy Award-winning vocalist Amanda McBroom performs Brel in the Berkshires, a cabaret devoted to the songs of Jacques Brel, with her husband George Ball and Michele Brourman, for three performances, Thursday, September 20, 2012, through Sunday, September 23, 2012, at Spice Dragon (297 North St.), under the auspices of Barrington Stage Company.…

Sandra Bernhard, Kenny Rogers, Arlo Guthrie Headline Fall Season at Colonial

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Comedian Sandra Bernhard, country singer Kenny Rogers, and folksinger Arlo Guthrie headline the fall season at the Colonial Theatre. The venue will also feature theatrical performances, family shows, jazz, rock, a Made in the Berkshires festival, and musical performances in its nightclub-style lobby, The Garage. Rogers, known for such hits as “The…

Battle of Bands Featured in New Rock Musical at Barrington Stage

(PITTSFIELD, MA) August 3, 2012 – New rock musical The Black Suits, about a high school garage band on suburban Long Island trying to win the St. Anne’s Battle of the Bands, runs in a workshop production as part of Barrington Stage’s Musical Theatre Lab, for which William Finn is artistic producer, through Sunday, September…

Vintage English Farce at Barrington Stage

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – See How They Run, a vintage 1945 English farce written by Philip King and including a Russian spy and many references to Noel Coward’s Private Lives, is being performed at Barrington Stage Company now through Sunday, August 26, 2012, on the Mainstage. See How They Run takes its title is a line…