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Caroline Rose Brings Postmodern Blues to Williams Inn

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Caroline Rose, named by NPR’s Bob Boilen as his favorite discovery at 2014’s Americana Music Festival, brings her unique style of postmodern blues to the Tavern at the Williams Inn on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at 7:30pm (doors open at 6pm), as part of the Barntone Sessions series. Described by Boilen as…

‘Michael Clayton’ Director to Reveal the Art of Suspense at MASS MoCA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Director-screenwriter Tony Gilroy, best known for his Oscar-winning thriller “Michael Clayton,” will pull back the curtain on the art of cinematic suspense in a multimedia presentation in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Friday, November 7, 2014, at 8pm, as part of the Williamstown Film Festival’s proceedings. Gilroy will talk…

Comic Thriller Brings Down Curtain on WTF Season

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Blood Play by The Debate Society concludes the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s summer 2013 season with a run on the Nikos Stage from Wednesday, August 7 through Sunday, August 18, 2013.  Named by New York Magazine as one of the Top 10 Plays of 2012, Blood Play is a darkly comic thriller created…

Broadway-Bound ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Musical Adaptation Debuts at WTF

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – A new musical theater adaptation of Robert J. Waller’s best-selling romance, The Bridges of Madison County, premieres on Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Main Stage from Thursday, August 1 to Sunday, August 18, 2013. The show is slated to go to Broadway in 2014. The new musical production is written by acclaimed playwright, screenwriter and…

Concertante Chamber Players Kick off Four-Week Chamber Series at The Clark

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Concertante Chamber Players kick off a four-week series of chamber music concerts at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at 8 pm. Upcoming concerts feature the Gryphon Trio (August 13), the Dover Quartet (August 20), and the Dorian Wind Quintet with pianist Spencer Myer (August…

Berkshire Farm & Table Comes To The Clark

Dining at The Clark's Stone Hill Café

ChefX Stone Hill Table Dinner Features Chef Dan Smith from John Andrews Restaurant(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Clark will host a farm-to-table dinner on Friday, August 30 , 2013, set on the terrace of the Clark’s exceptional Stone Hill Center and featuring a meal prepared by chef-owner Dan Smith of John Andrews Farmhouse Restaurant. The convergence…

Baseball Musical Explores Curse of Bambino at WTF

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Johnny Baseball, a quintessentially American musical that unearths the source of the Curse of the Red Sox and the secret to its triumphant end off Big Papi’s bat in 2004, will be presented on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival from Wednesday, July 24, 2013, through Saturday, August 3. Packed…

Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’ Gets WTF Staging

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – George Bernard Shaw’s timeless and incredibly influential play Pygmalion – which has influenced dozens of works of art since its 1912 debut, including Werner Herzog’s film Kaspar Hauser, Bernard Pomerance’s play The Elephant Man (as well as the subsequent David Lynch film version), and the Three Stooges’ 1935 slapstick comedy, Hoi Polloi…

BerkshireWeekend Cultural Preview, July 10-14, 2013

  BRIAN BROOKS MOVING COMPANY at JACOB’S PILLOW  (BECKET, Mass.) – The dynamic contemporary dance ensemble Brian Brooks Moving Company presents a daring program featuring larger-than-life stage design, bold costuming, and full-out movement in the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance from Wednesday, July 10 to Sunday, July 14, 2013. Led by choreographer and…

WTF Free Theatre Features New ‘Dracula’ Adaptation, Blood Drive

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Dracula, or the Un-Dead, a dynamic new stage version of Bram Stoker’s iconic 1897 tale, opens at the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Free Theatre on Poker Flats Field on the Williams College Campus (weather permitting). The production, adapted by Free Theatre co-founder and WTF veteran Steve Lawson, runs Wednesday, July 10 to Saturday,…