Berkshire On Stage

(l to r) Jenny Strassburg and Melissa Hurst in "A Strange Disappearance of Bees" at Oldcastle Theaetre Company.

Review: ‘A Strange Disappearance of Bees’ Has Critics Buzzing With Excitement

A compelling new play by Elena Hartwell gets a world class production in nearby Bennington, Vermont.

A Thank You note from my front lawn. And a change of pace for you, the reader.

The critic frets over his lawn, same as everyone…

Boston Early Music Festival taps Soprano Ulrike Hofbauer for Handel’s “Almira”

Almira is the first opera by beloved Baroque composer, George Frideric Handel.

The Museum of Bad Art in Somerville, MA. One of the fifty top world class museums according to The Times of London. while we have to admit the references to the circular Guggenheim are clever, the bare bulbs are unforgivable. The author is either joking or on strong medications.

Museum of Bad Art is the Greatest Gallery in Massachusetts says The Times of London

It’s time the Brits got over Bunker Hill, Concord and Lexington, and gave their former colony a little credit.

Those dancing feet in Becket come in all shapes and sizes. Photo courtesy of the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Dance in the Berkshires – Jacob’s Pillow Opens June 19 with Dance Theatre of Harlem

Soon. Not only will there be Spring in the air but dancers, too.

The Ted Shawn Theatre at night in 2006. Photo by Christopher Duggan

New, Wider, Cushier Seats Installed for Jacob’s Pillow Season Opening

Audiences will love the new seating at Jacob’s Pillow this summer and some will put their names on them.

Showing their new-found togetherness is struck by Bellomy (Derrick Jaques), Luisa (Stephanie Granade), Matt (Andrew McMath), and Hucklebee (Gabe Bleyeu) in The Fantasticks. Even as they celebrate newfound happiness, El Gallo (Patrick Heffernan) wonders how long they will stay that way.

Families, gardens, love in bloom, the Mac-Hayden returns to its roots with “The Fantasticks”

A classic musical, The Fantasticks has a message as timeless as its love story.

Spring Celebration (2010) by Henry Ekman Klein at the Berkshire Museum.

Berkshire Museum exhibits River Paintings by Henry Klein, perfect Berkshire moments caught on canvas

Henry Klein’s paintings capture how nature is ever reinventing itself in the Berkshires.

Annette Miller portrays the great diva, Maria Callas in Master Class,

Annette Miller stars in Terrence McNally’s “Master Class” as Shakespeare & Co Season Opens May 24

Director Daniel Gidron returns with the fabulous Annette Miller to give the Berkshires “Master Class” about the legendary Maria Callas, written by Terrence McNally.

Juri Henley-Cohn plays the teacher, Bashir Lazhar.

Barrington Stage offers “Bashir Lazhar,” American premiere of an unorthodox play

Differences over immigration and multiculturalism are in the news daily, and this play examines the human side of this debate.

Jayne Atkinson joins Treat Williams and impressive cast in Berkshire Theatre’s “The Lion in Winter”

Jayne Atkinson roars onstage as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter.

Francisco Graciano and Eran Bugge dance Paul Taylor's Perpetual Spring; Photo by Paul B Goode.

Paul Taylor Dance Company Returns to Mahaiwe Memorial Day Weekend May 24-26, 2013

For the annual visit of the Paul Taylor Dance Company in the Berkshires, four programs of dance will be given at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center.

Casting has been announced and Tony Yazbeck will play Gabey, one of the three sailors who go "On The Town."

Preview of “On the Town” – Barrington Stage brings back the real musical with a hot cast, director, choreographer

All about why you should plan to see “On the Town” at Barrington Stage. It is the real, authentic musical with the full Leonard Bernstein score, most of which was left out of the film version.

Stretch Secor is the fiddler for The Old Crow Medicine Show in a photo by Sarah Smith. He's an authentic native of the South.

Old Crow Medicine Show is a Mighty Appetizer before the Fall Bluegrass Feast at Mass MoCA

“When we play, people can feel the timelessness. They can feel that they’re rooted in something,” says fiddler and bandleader Ketch Secor.

Berkshire on Stage Summer 2013 Schedules of Music, Theatre and Dance

More than a dozen major festivals and summer theatres welcome visitors to the Berkshires, making the nightlife as rich and rewarding as the area’s natural beauty and activities celebrate the days that pass the old fashioned way, luxuriously.

Barrington Stage has some of the most comfortable seating and great sight lines of any Berkshire theatre, Photo: Kevin Sprague.

The Barrington Stage Company 2013 Schedule of Plays, Cabarets and Special Events

The full schedule, as Barrington Stage keeps their two stages and cabaret pulsing with ideas and rhythm in 2013. Who could ask for anything more.

The Berkshire on Stage day by day guide to Tanglewood happenings during the 2013 Season.

Revised BSO and Tanglewood Music Festival Schedule for 2013 – Day by Day

With so many additions to the 2013 lineup we thought it time to do a complete overhaul to the Tanglewood 2013 day-by-day schedule.

The Auditorium at the Daniel Arts Center of Bard College in Great Barrington will host three new summer theatrical residencies July 18-August 3, 2013. Mass Live Arts is the presenter.

This Summer – A New Contemporary Theater Festival – “Mass Live Arts” in Great Barrington

Under the umbrella of Mass Live Arts, three cutting edge theatre groups will make the Berkshires their summer home in 2013.

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2013 tickets on sale

Jacob’s Pillow surveys Brazil, Israel, France, India, Germany and USA 350 free and ticketed performances, talks and classes offered — Dance once again moves its locus from the urban settings of the big cities of the world to the tiny woodsy hamlet of Becket, MA. There, a fresh air outdoor …