‘What good is sitting alone in your room’ …Summer is opening all around us this week. As Cabaret takes the stage at Barrington stage Company, Tanglewood and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival are stirring.
The Emerson String Quartet will perform on Wednesday night in one of their final concerts in their farewell season, and on Thursday internationally acclaimed mandolinist Chris Thile performs at Tanglewood with innovative orchestral collective the Knights.
Mark Morris Dance Group will open Jacobs Pillow’s 2023 summer with the evening-length work The Look of Love, an homage to the music of Burt Bacharach, as innovative contemporary performers come to the outdoor stage including Te Ao Mana, a New York City company expanding the presence of Indigenous Polynesian culture worldwide.
And museums are getting into full color with Edvard Munch at the Clark, outdoor sculpture at the Mount and more …

Listeners gather around the trees on the Tanglewood lawn. Press photo courtesy of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Te Ao Mana performs outside in the sun, a dance collective expanding the presence of Indigenous Polynesian culture worldwide. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow
Events coming up …
Find more art and performance, outdoors and food in the BTW events calendar.

