(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Broadway musical theater star Leslie Kritzer performs an evening of songs by Jule Styne in Hello, Gorgeous! Leslie Kritzer Sings Jule Styne at Barrington Stage Company on Monday, July 30, 2012, at 7pm on the mainstage. Kritzer, a two-time Drama Desk Award nominee who won everyone’s hearts with her portrayal of ‘Adelaide’…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Novelist and essayist Cathi Hanauer will appear as the featured author for July 2012 in the WXW Writers Room series at yBar on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at 8 p.m. Hanauer will read a short excerpt from her brand new novel, Gone, and then answer questions and discussing writing, life, marriage, or…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The results of a collaboration between a Berkshires-based artist and design firm are displayed at Berkshire Museum, in Pittsfield, Mass., a living example of how the creative economy has replaced the manufacturing economy in this once-thriving industrial city. In 2010, Tom Patti, a Berkshires-based artist renowned worldwide for his innovative work in…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Berkshire Museum will present an innovative exhibition, Rethink! American Indian Art, featuring both striking contemporary art and important historic art objects, on view from July 7, 2012, to January 6, 2013. An opening reception will be held Thursday, July 12, 2012, from 5 to 7 p.m. and a Family Day of programs…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – In conjunction with the critically acclaimed run of Fiddler on the Roof, Barrington Stage Company presents a mini festival of Yiddish Folklore and Music on July 8-9, 2012, featuring Yiddish Book Center founder Aaron Lansky exploring the deeper meaning behind Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories that form the foundation of the musical, and…
Fiddler on the Roof Barrington Stage Company Pittsfield, Mass. Running through 7.14.12 Review by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – If the measure of a good production of Fiddler on the Roof is loyalty to the original, then Barrington Stage Company’s current production of this beloved, iconic, nearly perfect musical, running in Pittsfield through July 14,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — Tom Patti, the Pittsfield-based artist internationally renowned for his innovative work in glass, has been commissioned by Berkshire Museum to create original works for the museum’s entry vestibule and lobby area. The site-specific installations are the first major commissions by Patti, one of the most influential and inventive artists working with glass,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Walking tours of Artscape, the public outdoor art exhibition in this city, begin on Saturday, June 23, 2012, at 1pm. The 90-minute tours of public sculpture, conducted by artist and educator Craig Langlois, leave from the Pittsfield Visitors Center located at the Colonial Theatre, 111 South Street. The new 2012 sculptures follow…
By Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – In a region where you can barely take two steps without tripping over a theater group — whether it be an Equity summer theater, a year-round community group, a regional powerhouse, or a presenting organization – it may seem almost perverse to create yet another organization dedicated to the…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Pioneer Valley-based reggae group ReBelle, formerly known as Black Rebels, will share the stage with Berkshire group Planned Partyhood at the Garage, the nightclub at the Colonial Theatre on Thursday, June 7, 2012, at 9pm. Songstress Naia Kete, who is the daughter of Rebelle founders and lead singers Emmanual Manou Dalomba and…
