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Concert Benefits Girls Empowerment | 02:30PM / Friday, April 20, 2018 | |
 EGREMONT, Mass. — Miss Hall's School seniors Anna Kim and Tiffany Luu will host a fundraising concert titled "Girls Aloud! Advocating Girls Empowerment" on Sunday, April 29, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at The Barn at the Egremont Village Inn on South Main Street.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit Berkshire HorseWorks, a 501c3 based in Richmond that provides EAGALA Model Equine Assisted Psychotherapy to those at risk and equine-assisted team building for organizations of all kinds. Kim has been interning at the organization during her senior year as part of the school's Horizons program.
Tickets are limited.General admission is $15,and the student price is
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MCLA Presents 'Into the Woods'| 02:20PM / Friday, April 20, 2018 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' 2017-18 theater season, "We the People," will culminate with the theater program's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods," which will open on Friday, April 20.
Performances will take place at 8 p.m. on April 20, 21, 27 and 28, with matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, and Sunday, April 29, in Venable Theater on the MCLA campus. A talkback will take place after the 8 p.m. show on Saturday, April 28. For more information or to reserve tickets, call the box office at 413-662-5123 or go online.
Directed by Jeremy Winchester, assistant professor of theater at MCLA, the show
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'Isle of Dogs': Will Wag Your TailBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
01:33PM / Friday, April 06, 2018 | |
 Writer-director Wes Anderson's often brilliant, stop-motion animated feature, "Isle of Dogs," about a 12-year-old boy's search for his lost pup, packs its humor-filled, sociopolitical wisdom into 101 entertaining minutes like hard ice cream jack-hammered into a pint carton. Lose concentration for a second and you'll miss a manifesto, a dictum, a theory and perhaps two or three mini-treatises on government. It soon becomes clear that the bulk of its pontifications will be gleaned not in the theater, but in the den via successive screenings over the years. Thus the best tack to take, if you can, is to sit back, relax and enjoy this genre heir to "Animal 0 Comments
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'The Leisure Seeker': Two for the RoadBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
03:09PM / Thursday, March 29, 2018 | |
 If you are of a certain age, which I am, then director Paolo Virzi's "The Leisure Seeker" is certain to resonate anywhere from sentimentally positive to depressingly negative, depending of course on how you view the last few chapters of the life experience. It is not an easy subject, especially in these overindulged times when even the closing of a favorite restaurant is reason enough for extended mourning. Shrouded in mystery, hope, despair and every other word the poets have employed to describe the inevitable, it is, along with love, the ultimate inscrutability. We don't even like to say it: Old Age. There, I did it. Yet the realization that it is 0 Comments
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'Love, Simon': You've Got BlackmailBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
02:54PM / Thursday, March 22, 2018 | |
 While director Greg Berlanti's "Love, Simon" is at once funny, serious and important, it's a darn shame that it is so very apt ... that this astute tale about a teenage boy's struggle to make his gayness known is revolutionary at all. Memo of inquiry to American civilization: It's the spring of 2018, and this fact of life is just making the mainstream? Well, better late than never. Truth is, attitudinal changes come slowly, especially to the narrow-minded. But the seed of tolerant reformation, boosted during the enlightenment of the '60s, has finally gained pragmatic traction. Today's kids, who have of late heroically evidenced that they'll 0 Comments
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'A Wrinkle in Time': Folds, Spindles and Doesn't ExhilarateBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
01:44PM / Friday, March 16, 2018 | |
 'A Wrinkle in Time': Folds, Spindles and Doesn't Exhilarate 2 popcorns By Michael S. Goldberger film critic I expected more from director Ava DuVernay's "A Wrinkle in Time," an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's 1962, adventure-fantasy novel. The book has been touted by a couple generations of youngsters, including my own moppet, Erin, who in retrospect adds that the freaky ideas were also a bit terrifying to a 9-year-old who hadn't to date "given that acid trip-type stuff much thought." Well, that's gratifying. But in any case, I saw my critiquing mission as a sort of command performance and wanted to bring news 0 Comments
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'Death Wish': What this World Doesn't Need NowBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
03:19PM / Thursday, March 08, 2018 | |
 "Death Wish," essentially a reboot of its 1974 namesake starring Charles Bronson, is problematic at best. For gosh sakes, there's tons of fear, loathing and guns -- the deadly sum of which the world doesn't need, especially at this incendiary and anguishing juncture in our history. But you can't blame MGM or director Eli Roth for the untimely release of this heir apparent to what became the standard of vigilante ethos. Considering the ceaseless conveyor belt of mass shootings bloodying our landscape, there is never a good time. You watch and wince. The casual mention of an AR-15 when Bruce Willis' Dr. Paul Kersey makes inquiries at a gun shop 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Signs Compact With State Cultural CommissionBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
04:33PM / Monday, March 05, 2018 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city is adding to its toolbox for artists and cultural development with the signing of compact on Monday that brings together local and state cultural resources.
Pittsfield was one of only six communities invited into the pilot program established by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
The Upstreet Cultural District, Pittsfield Cultural Council, the city of Pittsfield and the Massachusetts Cultural Council signed the agreement that seeks to align the city's cultural activities with its economic development and more deeply embed arts and culture in a way that betters the lives of the city's citizens.
"In this shared vision, MCC and Pittsfield
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'Black Panther': It's All GoodBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
04:51PM / Thursday, March 01, 2018 | |
 As the film critiquing tumblers in my brain jumbled about during a viewing of Ryan Coogler's "Black Panther," one heck of an astute action-drama courtesy of Marvel Studios, I contemplated the complexities regarding one's point of view. Granted, this white, would-be silk stocking liberal was gratified by the racial and political wish fulfillment represented by the semi-secret, technologically advanced African kingdom of Wakanda where T'Challa, aka Black Panther, has just been elevated to the throne. But what remains of the kid in me took it a bit further. I thought about heroes and what they meant to us in that portion of growing up that reveled in playing make 0 Comments
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MCLA Stages Adaptation of 'Rhinoceros'| 06:30PM / Friday, February 23, 2018 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The third show of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Fine and Performing Arts Department's theater program continues to emphasize this season's theme of "We the People" with its adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's play, "Rhinoceros," which will open at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23, in MCLA's Venable Theater. Guest artist David Lane, who directs the production, described "Rhinoceros" as an absurdist theater production that includes comedy and tragedy, as well as dark political tones. "'We the People' is not a given, and democracy doesn't exist without a country of people to 1 Comment
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