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Williamstown Playwright Has World Premiere Staging at Berkshire Theatre Festival

Keira Naughton

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The Berkshire Theatre Festival will literally be just that, when the comic drama Birthday Boy by Chris Newbound, of Williamstown, Mass., has its world premiere in the Unicorn Theatre at Berkshire Theatre Festival beginning Tuesday, August 30. 2011, running through Saturday, September 3. The play will then reopen on Thursday, September 29 and…

Norman Rockwell Museum Goes Back to the Future with Steampunk Night

“The Inquisitive Nomad,” Vincent Villafranca, 2011. Bronze sculpture currently on view in the Norman Rockwell Museum exhibition “Robot Nation” (Photo courtesy of Vincent Villafranca. All rights reserved.)

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) — The early Industrial Revolution dances with modern technology in the Steampunk movement, the topic of an illustrated lecture and discussion at the Norman Rockwell Museum on Thursday, August 4, starting at 5:30 p.m. Steampunk Night features Bruce Rosenbaum of ModVic Steampuffin and Ellen Hagney, executive director of the Charles River Museum of…

New Sol Schwartz Exhibition Celebrates Performing Arts in the Berkshires

Illustration of Yo-Yo Ma by Sol Schwartz. ©Sol Schwartz. All rights reserved.

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) –There couldn’t be a more fitting summertime exhibition than “Sol Schwartz: Drawing in the Dark,” featuring the well-known artist’s vibrant, spontaneous drawings, that have captured the beauty and excitement of music, theater and dance at such performing arts centers as Tanglewood, Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, and Barrington Stage Company,…

Obama Requests Historic Rockwell Painting for White House

"The Problem We All Live With," Norman Rockwell, 1963. Oil on canvas, 36” x 58”. Illustration for "Look," January 14, 1964. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©NRELC, Niles, IL.

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) –Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting, The Problem We All Live With, part of the Norman “The Problem We All Live With,” Norman Rockwell, 1963. Oil on canvas, 36” x 58”. Illustration for “Look,” January 14, 1964. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©NRELC, Niles, IL.   Rockwell Museum’s permanent collection, has been loaned to the White…

Berkshire Theatre Festival Kicks off Summer Season with Sixties Drama

Miriam Silverman

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The seminal 1971 drama, Moonchildren, by playwright Michael Weller, kicks off the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s Unicorn Stage season this week, in a production directed by actress Karen Allen. The play, often regarded as one of the definitive dramatic portrayals of young American life in the mid-1960s, runs June 28 through July 16.…

Red Lion Inn Featuring Wine-Pairing Dinner

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – On Friday, June 17, 2011, the Red Lion Inn Dining Room presents a special tasting menu keyed toward the exceptional craft wines of the biodynamic Quivira Vineyards and La Follette Wines. A pre-dinner reception begins at 6 followed by dinner at 6:30. The price is $65 per person (plus tax and gratuity).…