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Post-Tanglewood, Area Chamber Concerts BlossomBy Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires.com
11:30AM / Wednesday, August 24, 2016 | |
 The approach of Labor Day marks the conclusion of the summer music festival season, and so the local classical music scene coalesces, as regional presenters favor intimate spaces for chamber music during the upcoming fall.
This will become the dominant genre of music making to be found until next June, when the warm late spring weather invites us to share massed performances outdoors at Tanglewood and other venues, large and small.
Looking ahead, you'll find a variety of concerts presented in churches, chapels, small auditoriums, halls and the like throughout the region. Even Tanglewood's acoustically superb Ozawa Hall is really too big for a string quartet or piano trio to be
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Future of WTBR-FM Remains UncertainBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
03:43AM / Monday, August 22, 2016 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The future of WTBR-FM is still uncertain. The radio station "Brave FM," stationed at Taconic High School, was once under threat of being silenced because of budget and interest. It is now facing the challenge of the new high school project's impacts on the tower location. In 2014, the idea of ending operations because of shrinking interest was floated but community members overwhelmingly voiced support and it stayed on the air. Now, with the construction of a new Taconic High School, Superintendent Jason McCandless is trying to find a solution as to where to put the tower. "We could be looking at $125,000 0 Comments
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'Indignation': A Fine SadnessBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
11:46AM / Friday, August 19, 2016 | |
 If you need a very literate affirmation that life can sometimes be brutal, sad, mocking, unfair and heartrending, then director/screenwriter James Schamus' diligent adaptation of Philip Roth's "Indignation" awaits you at the Bijou. You can't help but be mesmerized by the searing, incisive realities Roth mines in his chronicle of a Jewish young man's experiences, circa early 1950s, at a small college in Ohio. The messages, either blatant or frighteningly violent in their subtlety, are delivered with righteous indignation, suggesting a modern addendum to the Greek tragedies.
If you're familiar with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's body of work,
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As Tanglewood Season Wanes, Music Still Fills the MountainsBy Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires.com
12:39PM / Wednesday, August 17, 2016 | |
 During this penultimate week of the Tanglewood Festival, the spotlight will focus on a wide range of both standard and unusual fare in varied genres: from Stravinsky, Mozart and Verdi, to Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Prokofiev and contemporary composer George Tsontakis (b. 1951).
Come late August, classical aficionados are saddened to acknowledge the waning Tanglewood season – a cornucopia of musical riches presented in an incomparably bucolic setting. Many of those superlative concerts will reside in our collective memory for a long time.
There's no cause, though, for dismay. Looking ahead, these last two months of magnificent music making are but a prelude to the fall array of
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Common Folk Arts & Music Festival Takes Place SaturdayBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
02:07AM / Friday, August 12, 2016 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The first Common Folk Arts & Music Festival will take place this Saturday to benefit the new Roots Teen Center. Common Folk, the North Adams-based artist collective, has rapidly gained momentum during its short existence, hosting galleries and concert events with local talent. Co-founder and creative director Jessica Sweeney said the group has built up a solid roster of bands and artists and thought the next logical step was to organize a full-on music festival. "I think that we have always really enjoyed doing these larger projects, and … we really wanted to start something annually so that we could share our artists 2 Comments
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Jane Kaczmarek Returns to Williamstown Theatre FestivalBy Phyllis McGuire, Special to iBerkshires
06:06PM / Wednesday, August 10, 2016 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee Jane Kaczmarek is not upset if people whistle in her dressing room or wish her good luck before a performance.
"I'm a meat and potatoes gal," the Milwaukee born and bred actress says, explaining why she does not adhere to theater superstitions.
Kaczmarek is in Williamstown to play a lead role in the American premiere of "And No More Shall We Part," on the Nikos Stage from Wednesday, Aug. 10, through Aug. 21.
The drama focuses on a married couple, Don (television and film star Alfred Molina) and Pam, portrayed by Kaczmarek, as they struggle with the most difficult decision in
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Berkshire Tidbits: Lobster Days, Sundae HighlightsBy Judith Lerner, Special to iBerkshires
02:55PM / Wednesday, August 10, 2016 | |
The : "Towards a Sustainable Future", is now in progress through Saturday, Aug. 13. This event brings together macrobiotic teachers and practitioners to share their experience and lifestyle interest in two weeks of lectures, workshops, cooking classes, eating and celebration, all day and into the night. For the last few years, this conference takes place on the KI campus, 198 Leland Road, North Becket, 413-623-5741. Berkshire residents may attend the conference for a discounted price of $157 per day, which includes three meals and all the day's and evening's activities, from 7 a.m. to about 9ish at night. Saturday, Aug. 13 is the 0 Comments
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Tanglewood, Manchester and Glimmerglass Are Not to be Missed| 01:55PM / Wednesday, August 10, 2016 | |
 This week, Tanglewood continues its high energy 2016 classical programming season with a powerhouse, back-to-back pair of programs performed by the Boston Pops and guest artists the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
The "heavy hitters" are John Williams' "Film Night" – always an audience favorite and a high point of each year's Tanglewood offerings, and a unique concert by a visiting ensemble of intrepid Australians that replicates a 1920s-era Weimar Republic quasi-pops cabaret experience. What a pair! This is not your staid classical programming. Be there or be square.
Traditional Tanglewood listeners: not to fear; classical fare won't be lacking:
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Comic, NPR Personality Eisenberg Coming to Williamstown Theatre FestivalBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:58PM / Sunday, August 07, 2016 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Theatre Festival in August welcomes a red-hot stand-up comic, an accomplished storyteller and a game show host — all rolled into one. Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born, New York-based comedian, the host of National Public Radio’s "Ask Me Another," and the author of the comic memoir "Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy." During a recent visit to Boston for a stand-up date, Eisenberg talked with iBerkshires.com about her Aug. 8 performance on the Main Stage at the '62 Center for Theater and Dance and the intersection of her different professional personae. "I feel like they all 0 Comments
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Love Rekindled in Local Author's 'Save the Last Dance'By Phyllis McGuire, Special to iBerkshires
07:36AM / Sunday, August 07, 2016 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A reconnection between long-lost teen sweethearts has inspired a modern-day epistolary novel.
But rather than writing pages of snail-mail love letters, Adam Wolf and Sarah Ross in "Save the Last Dance" re-establish bonds through the swift and instantaneous communication of emails and texts.
Collaborators Eva Ungar Grudin and Eric Joseph used their own experiences as the jumping off point for this debut novel, which had a launch in June at Water Street Books.
"We went together up to 11th grade, and set a wedding date when we were 15," Grudin, a retired Williams College art history professor, recalled last week.
But life
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