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Harlem Dance, Buddy Guy's Blues, Nat 'King' Cole Stylings Highlight WeekBy Grace Lichtenstein, Guest Column
11:00AM / Wednesday, July 10, 2019 | |
 Blues, jazz, hip-hop, folk, cabaret — you can catch a bit of everything with the varied pops calendar in our region this week. Big names, too: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Buddy Guy, John Davidson to name a few. Jacob's Pillow The 50th anniversary of the beloved Dance Theatre of Harlem is being celebrated July 10-14 at the Ted Shawn Theatre. Co-founded by the late Arthur Mitchell, it is now headed by founding member and former principal dancer Virginia Johnson. This is the troupe's first return to the Pillow in five years.
On the bill are a collection of works from the 21st as well as 20th century: Darrell Grand Moultrie's "Harlem on My Mind," Christopher
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The Three Ts: Tanglewood, Taconic, Tannery Pond| 11:05AM / Wednesday, July 03, 2019 | |
Tanglewood, the nation's largest and most prestigious summer music presenter, opens its 82nd classical festival season this week. Here's a rundown of the concerts in the Shed and in Ozawa Hall, and also the amazing and elaborate related events in the just-opened Tanglewood Linde Center complex of buildings.
Why go? To be amazed! Read about the stellar music making, with superstar performers interpreting great music from across historical eras – much of it beloved favorites by audiences worldwide, and for the many personal and historical perspectives you'll discover at the Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI) presentations.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra opens
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Red, White, Blue Plus Grease Week for Pop FansBy Grace Lichtenstein, Guest Column
11:48AM / Tuesday, July 02, 2019 | |
 From Stockbridge to Boston, pop fans know what to expect as the mid-week Fourth of July celebration approaches: Sweet Baby James at Tanglewood — but first, there's a great Josh Groban show tonight.
Meanwhile at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington: more great folk music, while Jacob’s Pillow features live music accompaniment to a Merce Cunningham tribute. That, a new production of "Grease" and more. Tanglewood Hope you have your tickets to James Taylor on Wednesday and Thursday as the Shed and the lawn are both sold out for the annual visit of James Taylor, beloved bard of the Berkshires. However, you can still hear great pop music tonight (Tuesday, July
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Tanglewood Cuts Ribbon on New Multidisciplinary FacilityBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
05:12PM / Friday, June 28, 2019 | |
A total of four structures were built on the property that make up the center. LENOX, Mass. — Tanglewood cut the ribbon on the new $33 million Linde Center for Music and Learning on Friday morning. The newly constructed buildings will house the 6,000-square-foot Tanglewood Learning Institute and offer rehearsal and performance spaces, learning opportunities, and more. The spaces will also be available for lease and will host numerous events and programs. The programs are not just music-based but will also feature talks, film screenings, classes on cinematography, painting, drawing, and photography. "Whether it's through the Tanglewood 1 Comment
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Review: Do Not Leave at Intermission of 'Into the Woods' By Nancy Salz, Guest Column
10:47AM / Friday, June 28, 2019 | |
 The story of Stephen Sondheim's "Into The Woods" only appears to be over at end of the first act of this farcical and entertaining mash-up made from four Brothers Grimm fairy tales. While everyone is about to live happily ever after, Act I is really a foreshadowing of the pay-back set forth Act II.
Bring your mind as well as your sense of humor to Barrington Stage's fine production of this musical theater classic.
As the show begins, The Baker (Jonathan Raviv) and his Wife (Mara Davi) are on a quest. They desperately want a child but are unable to conceive. The Witch (Mykal Kilgore) has cursed them, and to undo it, she demands four items: a cow as white as milk from
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'The Dead Don't Die': Having Fun With the OxymoronBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
05:36PM / Thursday, June 27, 2019 | |
 I'd be impressed if I learned that a history prof in some U.S. university was showing his class director Jim Jarmusch's zombie/horror/comedy "The Dead Don't Die" as an instructive metaphor for the zombies down in Foggy Bottom. It might be a stretch, but then again, c'mon. Possessed of no morality and dedicated only to their perverse survival, the sudden infestation of the undead in previously peaceful, Centerville, Pennsylvania, is fraught with tidbits of parodic wit, the satire there for all who are willing to recognize the real horror that threatens us. In his latest example of off-the-hook, avant-garde filmmaking, wherein he pays tongue-in-cheek 1 Comment
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A Deeper, Darker Exhibit Debuts at Berkshire Art MuseumBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:25AM / Thursday, June 27, 2019 | |
Dan Wolf manipulated negatives to create creepy to horrific artworks. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Berkshire Art Museum opens its sixth season by dipping into dark matter — art that's slightly twisted, disturbing, tortured, sorrowful, disastrous and, well, dark. That's the theme running through "Not Just Another Pretty Picture," a group exhibit that opens on Thursday at 6 p.m. during the first DownStreet Art of the season. "I like to do shows that I can relate to and also I feel that maybe are a little bit underrepresented in galleries," said museum founder Eric Rudd. "Gallery dealers will tell you what sells are 0 Comments
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DownStreet Art Kicks Off 12th Summer of Art on Thursday| 03:55PM / Wednesday, June 26, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — DownStreet Art kicks off its 12th season of gallery openings, exhibits and performances this Thursday. The annual summer event is a prelude this year to the Solid Sound Festival at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art that opens on Friday. But while Wilco and the gang have the weekend, DownStreet Art continues with monthly events through the summer. Local and regional artists have decked out Main Street storefronts for the occasion, and three locations will host simultaneous gallery openings downtown from 5 to 8 p.m. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Berkshire Cultural Resource Center coordinates the summer art 0 Comments
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Tanglewood's Learning Institute Opens This Week| 12:03PM / Tuesday, June 25, 2019 | |
 The summer concert season has arrived, and how fortunate are we music lovers to be living right here, in the Berkshires or Southern Vermont, at what can only be described as "music and cultural central." It's clear that this will be an especially exciting and brilliant festival season.
Here are my recommended picks of the week for the upcoming concerts and related events to be experienced in venues at three of our most noteworthy regional music festivals. Tanglewood One of the most anticipated events of Tanglewood's 2019 music season - the official opening weekend of the Linde Center for Music and Learning and Tanglewood Learning Institute programs - will take place June
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Gearing Up for Old and New Pop IdolsBy Grace Lichtenstein, Guest Column
11:32AM / Tuesday, June 25, 2019 | |
 Alan Freed. Queen. Earth, Wind & Fire. Southside Johnny. These are among the treats awaiting Berkshire pop and dance enthusiasts in the week before July 4. Berkshire Theatre Group Older folks surely remember the pioneering DJ Alan Freed, who practically invented rock 'n' roll radio (for white listeners) back in the day. The music was considered dangerous in the beginning and Freed was a pied piper leading teenagers astray. Now, at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, the Berkshire Theatre Group and Caiola Productions presents a new musical, "Rock and Roll Man: The Alan Freed Story," starting Thursday June 27. The show runs through July 21.
Even those who don't
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