Amal — a 12-foot-tall puppet, a moving work of theater creating community and art across three continents — comes to Mass MoCA and to Ashfield to find rest and music and home.
Read articleRecord shops are turning up the sound in the Berkshires
Vinyl is growing in the Berkshires — the past few years have seen a new energy and enthusiasm grow around records, and record stores are drawing in new audiences with live music and events.
Read articleA New Brain reckons with illness and endurance
Two men are holding each other in a hospital room. One of them is lying lean and tense in a hospital gown, and the other supports him to lift up. They sit together on the inadequate bed, facing an impossible diagnosis … a powerful image a musical first produced in 1998.
Read articleHooRWA and WRL explore the Hoosic river valley in stories and music
The Hoosic River Watershed Association and Williamstown Rural Lands are celebrating the Northern Berkshires in creative collaborations — original songs and poems and a new writing journal with Tupelo Press.
Read articleCh-ch-changes — Complexions transforms Ballet
One dancer spins to another, extending toward the milky way, and lifts into the sky … Internationally acclaimed Complexions Contemporary Ballet comes to Jacob’s Pillow with new work and Star Dust, their tribute to rock icon David Bowie.
Read articleMapping wonder in West Stockbridge — #berkshireexperience
I’m looking at the bin of old maps at Shaker Mill Books in West Stockbridge and thinking, how would I draw a map of these hills, and what would I put in? When you have an afternoon in West Stockbridge to explore, how do you find unexpected places?
Read articleSéan Curran and Darrah Carr hold a contemporary Irish Céilí
Irish music and dance have come to Jacob’s Pillow, as Séan Curran and Darrah Carr’s companies meet in Ceilidh — in a language that feels both international and contemporary.
Read articleFrom Fado to fireflies — a taste of LuluFest Lenox
Jazz vocalist Suzy Stern opened LuluFest Lenox on Friday night, alongside acclaimed jazz musicians bassist MaryAnn McSweeney violinist Sara Caswell and jazz pianist Peggy Stern.
Read articleDionysos and the Bacchae dance under the stars
Women are singing in the river. They are wading in the water from the temple garden to the labyrinth … Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield performs The Hidden Territories of the Bacchae, delving into their own ancestral stories.
Read articleJazz violinist Sara Caswell celebrates ‘The Way to You’
The low voice of the strings carries an unexpected timbre, like the air on a summer across an open ridge. The sound shivers, vulnerable as anyone may be when they talk openly with someone they love.
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