Come here the music play! — #Berkshiresummer

‘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 …

Acclaimed mandolinist and composer Chris Thile, right, will perform Attention, a new song cycle, at Tanglewood with the Knights, as Krysta Rodriguez and Dan Amboyer appear as Sally Bowles and Cliff in Cabaret at Barrington Stage Company
Listeners gather around the trees on the Tanglewood lawn. Press photo courtesy of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Photo by Hilary Scott

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
Photo by Mahinahina Choy Ellis

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.

Claude Monet, The Geese, 1874, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute
Apr 27 2024 @ 2:00 pm
As part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Williamstown Public Library, art historian Jock Brooks presents a gallery tour exploring works of art that were made in 1874.
Poet and professor Jessica Fischer will speak at Williams College. Press photo courtesy of Williams
Apr 27 2024 @ 4:00 pm
Poets Jessica Fisher and Mary Ruefle present a reading and conversation in celebration of their new books at the Clark Art Institute.
Wildflowers bloom on Stone Hill with the Clark Art Institute in the distance. Press photo courtesy of the museum
Apr 27 2024 @ 6:00 pm
What are the plants that tie us to our ancestors and sense of place? Brooke Bridges, Twink Williams Burns and Rebecca Guanzon share intimate stories about their relationships with the land and their ancestors.

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