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Season 2024 Launch Party
Performance Spaces for the 21st Century
May 17, 2024 : 5:30PM – 9:30PM
Beyond Ballet. Beyond Hip-Hop. Two genre-defying works that illustrate the groundbreaking directions of Japan’s current dance scene.
Contact: 800.838.3006
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Location: 980 Route 66 in Chatham NY 12037
Dutchess County Open Days
The Garden Conservancy
May 18, 2024 :
Neverest
• WASSAIC, DUTCHESS COUNTY, NY
Broccoli Hall—Maxine Paetro
• AMENIA, DUTCHESS COUNTY, NY, 12501
Contact: 845.424.6500
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Location: Various
Moonlight Flight | 2024 Gala Celebration
Warner Theater
May 18, 2024 :
Indulge in a soirée of hors d'oeuvres, cocktails, and the enchanting music of MJ Vaciaunas. The evening will continue with a celestial dining experience, an open bar, sumptuous dinner, live entertainment by the Gatsby Gang Jazz Band and a live auction.
Contact: 860.489.7180
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Location: 68 Main Street. Torrington. CT. 06790
Spring Gala & Auction
Hotchkiss Library of Sharon
May 18, 2024 : 5 PM – 7 PM
Contact: 860.364.5041
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Location: 9 Sharon Mountain Road Sharon CT 06069
Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking
How Outdoor Adventure Improves Us as We Age
Cornwall Library
May 18, 2024 : 6PM
In her new book, Caroline Paul dives deep into the current research on aging, and interviews older women who exemplify the confidence and well-being that come from embracing the outdoors.
Contact: 860.672.6874
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Location: 30 Pine Street Cornwall CT 06753
Misty Blues
Stissing Center
May 18, 2024 : 7PM
Band founder and lead singer, Gina Coleman, entered the music scene in the early 90’s as the lead singer of the folk/rock group Cole-Connection.
Contact: 518.771.3340
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Location: 2950 Church Street Pine Plains NY 12567
Café Vienna—Nervous Splendor
Close Encounters with Music
May 19, 2024 : 4PM
A cross-section of Viennese musical modes—from operetta to waltz, Beethoven’s Piano Trio which spins on a popular song by Weigl to Schubert’s sublime testament to his beloved métier, “An die Musik.”
Contact: 518.392.6677
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Location: Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington MA 01201
Berkshire Comedy Festival
May 23, 2024 – May 25, 2024 :
We're celebrating the art of LIVE Stand-Up Comedy with comedians from the New England comedy scene, the New York City comedy scene and beyond!
Contact: 413.528.0100
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Location: Barrington Stage Company Pittsfield MA
From Lonely to Free
Omega Institute
May 24, 2024 – May 26, 2024 :
Kyle Cease is known for his gift of merging comedy with personal transformation. It's not something that’s been done before—not the way he does it. Kyle says it was scary to let go of being a normal stand-up comic.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
In Conversation with Elissa Altman
Hickory Stick Bookshop
May 24, 2024 : 4PM
Authors Roxana Robinson, Mary Pope Osborne and Rachel Vail who will be in conversation with Elissa Altman about their one-of-a-kind collaborative book “Fourteen Days” which came out in February.
Contact: 860.868.0525
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Location: Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens Washington Depot CT 06793
25th Anniversary Celebration
MASSMoCA
May 25, 2024 :
Free Museum Admission l Live Performances l Family Activities.
Contact: 413.662.2111
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Location: 1040 MASS MoCA WAY North Adams, MA 01247
Son Lux
MASSMoCA
May 25, 2024 : 8PM
Don't miss a performance by the Academy Award®- and BAFTA-nominated band (known for their stunning soundtrack to (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as part of MASS MoCA's 25th Anniversary Community Celebration.
Contact: 413.662.2111
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Location: 1040 MASS MoCA WAY North Adams, MA 01247
Berkshire International Film Festival
May 30, 2024 – June 2, 2024 :
Marked with strong international programming and an ongoing commitment to presenting the best in independent film, the festival brings together films, filmmakers, industry professionals and fans for a four-day celebration.
Contact: 413.644.4400
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Location: Daniel Arts Center 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230
Interior Courtyard VIP Cocktail Reception
Five Points Arts
May 31, 2024 : 6PM – 8PM
Exclusive Preview of the Print Festival's Juried Print Exhibit,
Jazz by Peter McEachern's Frequencies
By becoming a sponsor or purchasing tickets to the VIP Reception, you support the organization's ability to offer the Print Festival to public at no charge.
Contact: 860.618.7222
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Location: 855 University Drive Torrington CT 06790
Spotlight Gala: To Bobbie with Love
Sharon Playhouse
June 1, 2024 :
The evening will be filled with enchanting performances, delectable dining, and unforgettable moments shared with friends, old and new.
Contact: 860.364.7469
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Location: 49 Amenia Road Sharon CT 06069
25th Annual Fundraiser
ASAP!
June 1, 2024 : 6PM – 9PM
Get ready to play, party, and feel the love at ASAP!’s biggest fundraising event of the year. Join us in celebrating curiosity with a fun variety show of entertaining performances, live music and surprise guests.
Doors open at 5:30pm,
Show begins promptly at 6:00pm.
Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and ASAP! art exhibition to follow show.
Contact: 860.868.0740
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Location: Thomas S. Perakos Arts and Community Center, Frederick Gunn School
Visionary Healing:Unraveling the Mysteries of Pain & Trauma
Omega Institute
June 2, 2024 – June 7, 2024 :
Unravel the mysteries of healing through osteopathy, energy medicine, sacred geometry, and native traditions with Steven Weiss, DO.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
Litchfield & Duchess County
Garden Conservancy Open Days
June 2, 2024 :
Wethersfield Estate & Garden
• AMENIA, DUTCHESS, NY, 12501
Squirrel Hall
• MILLBROOK, DUTCHESS COUNTY, NY, 12545
Clove Brook Farm - Christopher Spitzmiller and Anthony Bellomo
• MILLBROOK, DUTCHESS COUNTY, NY, 12545
Broccoli Hall—Maxine PaetroBroccoli Hall—Maxine Paetro
• AMENIA, DUTCHESS COUNTY, NY, 12501
Roxana Robinson - TreetopRoxana Robinson - Treetop
• WEST CORNWALL, LITCHFIELD, CT, 06796
Isabel and Winston Fowlkes
• WASHINGTON, LITCHFIELD, CT, 06793
Japanese Gardens at Cedar Hill
• ROXBURY, LITCHFIELD, CT, 06873
Church House-The Garden of Page Dickey and Bosco Schell
• FALLS VILLAGE, LITCHFIELD, CT, 06031
Contact: 845.424.6500
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Location: Litchfield & Duchess Counties
Getting the Love You Want
Omega Institute
June 7, 2024 – June 9, 2024 :
The Workshop gives couples the concepts and skills they need to co-create a safe relationship, eliminate negativity, experience and sustain deep connection, and experience joyful aliveness.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
Summer Benefit
Wassaic Project
June 8, 2024 : 5PM – 7PM
Please join us in honoring two people who have been with us from almost the very beginning: Jeila Gueramian and Scott Anderson. Enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, wine and a thank you gift.
Contact: 855.927.7242
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Location: Wassaic NY 12592-0220
Workshop Experience Weekend
Hillsdale Workshop Alliance
June 8, 2024 – June 9, 2024 :
The event will feature a weekend packed with 30+ workshops & classes on a wide variety of topics plus two open gardens and plant sales.
Contact: mwhite@whitewebb.com
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Location: Various
Namoli Brennet
The Foundry
June 8, 2024 :
A trans artist whose music has been described as, "an uplifting shot of hope.. that queers the sonic landscape."
Contact: 413.232.5222
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Location: 2 Harris Street. West Stockbridge MA 01266
Canellakis Brown Duo
Clarion Concerts
June 8, 2024 : 3PM
Cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown, comprising the Canellakis-Brown Duo, have been uniting their multi-disciplinary talents and honing their unique musical voice for over fifteen years. They bring their affectionate, brutally honest, and infectious rapport to the stage while presenting programs celebrating the standard literature, little-known gems and original works and arrangements.
Contact: 413.551.9901
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Location: Private Residence
It's All Schubert
Sherman Chamber Ensemble
June 9, 2024 : 4 PM
Celebrating the genius of Franz Schubert. The performance will feature Susan Rotholz on flute, Doori Na and Jane Chung on violin, Sarah Adams on viola and Eliot Bailen on cello.
Contact: 860.355.5930
www.shermanchamberensemble.org
Location: The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens Washington CT
Aging Backwards for All Ages
Omega Institute
June 14, 2024 – June 16, 2024 :
Learn how to maintain or regain a youthful body, and be healthy, pain-free, and energetic in life with Miranda Esmonde-White's Essentrics® workout.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
The Legendary Ingramettes
Performance Spaces for the 21st Century
June 16, 2024 : 2:30PM
Richmond’s “First Family of Gospel,” bring their roof-raising harmonies in celebration of Juneteenth. Inspired by the Black gospel quartets of the 1940s and 50s, an all-woman group.
Contact: 800.838.3006
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Location: First Presbyterian Church of Hudson 369 Warren Street Hudson New York
Divine Restoration: Destination New England
Warner Theater
June 20, 2024 : 6PM VIP | 7:PM Premier
The Red Carpet Premiere will offer a sneak peek at the acclaimed reality television series, shot entirely in the Torrington and Northwestern Connecticut area, before it airs on streaming channels.
Contact: 860.489.7180
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Location: 68 Main Street. Torrington. CT. 06790
The Greatest Love of All
Omega Institute
June 21, 2024 – June 23, 2024 :
Cultivating Self-Love for Personal & Collective Liberation
With Kate Johnson, Dawn Mauricio, La Sarmiento, and Sebene Selassie
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
Make Music Day
NWCT Arts Council
June 21, 2024 :
An international day of free live music. Musicians of all types, skill sets, and ages come together with venues to put on concerts all day. This day is all about bringing live music experiences to our community.
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Location: Northwest Corner of CT
BETTY
Hudson Hall
June 21, 2024 : 7PM
OutHudson Pride Official Kickoff! indie rock trio celebrating 38 years of incredible live shows and the release of their 11th studio album, powerhouse performers Alyson Palmer, Elizabeth Ziff, and her sister, Amy Ziff bring their energetic mix of music, performance art, politics and comedy
Contact: 518.822.1438
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Location: 327 Warren Street. Hudson. NY 12534
Shawn L. Stevens
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
June 26, 2024 : 6PM
A musician, dancer and storyteller Shawn L. Stevens, enrolled member of the Stockbridge Munsee band of Mohicans and Friends, for a special opening performance of Festival 2024.
Contact: 413.243.0745
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Location: 358 George Carter Road Becket MA 01223
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
June 26, 2024 – June 30, 2024 : 8PM
The Trocks “delight with fabulous charm” while staying true to their roots. Founded in the wake of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City as a gender-skewering company of professional male dancers, the Trocks perform a full range of ballet and modern dance repertoire, offering humorous yet faithful renditions that are both “delightful” and “rebellious”.
Contact: 413.243.0745
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Location: 358 George Carter Road Becket MA 01223
M.A.D.D. Rhythms
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
June 27, 2024 – June 28, 2024 :
Based in Chicago, M.A.D.D. (Making A Difference Dancing) Rhythms is a multi-generational tap dance collective with one passion: to spread the love and joy of tap worldwide.
Contact: 413.243.0745
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Location: 358 George Carter Road Becket MA 01223
Living in Alignment
Omega Institute
June 28, 2024 – June 30, 2024 :
Quiet the Ego & Connect with Your Soul with Cory Muscara. Find true alignment in your life by learning to quiet the noise of the ego and connecting to the truth of your soul.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
Jon Batiste
Tanglewood
June 28, 2024 :
Contact: 413.637.1600
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Location: Koussevitzky Music Shed 297 West Street Lenox MA 01240
Annual Gala
Shakespeare & Company
June 29, 2024 : 5PM
The Gala kicks off with cocktails and hors d’ oeuvres, followed by a tribute film in the theater with special live appearances. A seated dinnerwill follow in the elegant Rose Meadow tent with the evening culminating with dessert, an ice-cream station featuring Shakespeare-inspired flavors and dancing the night away
Contact: 413.637.1199
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Location: 70 Kemble Street Lenox MA 01240
Brandi Carlile
Tanglewood
June 30, 2024 :
Contact: 413.637.1600
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Location: Koussevitzky Music Shed 297 West Street Lenox MA 01240
Gala 2024 | A Faustian Fête
Berkshire Opera Festival
June 30, 2024 :
Please join friends and supporters for an evening of music and merriment at our annual gala. Guests can look forward to enjoying a heavenly meal and devilishly divine drinks, silent and live auctions, and performances from Maestro Brian Garman and a special guest artist.
Contact: 413.997.4444
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Location: Lenox Club 111 Yokun Avenue Lenox MA 01240
The Royal Ballet
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
July 3, 2024 – July 7, 2024 :
One of the most famous and celebrated companies in the world, The Royal Ballet of the United Kingdom will appear as the company’s sole stop in the US. On each performance day, the company will perform one program on the outdoor Henry J. Leir Stage, followed by another distinct program in the Ted Shawn Theatre.
Contact: 413.243.0745
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Location: 358 George Carter Road Becket MA 01223
Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists
Performance Spaces for the 21st Century
July 4, 2024 – July 5, 2024 : 7:30PM
It’s 2028, and every year, a Portuguese family commemorates the 1954 murder of activist Catarina Eufémia at the hands of the Salazar dictatorship by kidnapping and killing a fascist. But this year, the young woman chosen to carry out the ritual refuses.
Contact: 800.838.3006
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Location: PS21 Pavilion Theater 980 Route 66 in Chatham NY 12037
Elevate Your Consciousness
Omega Institute
July 5, 2024 – July 7, 2024 :
Accelerate your spiritual awakening with an enlightened master, Her Holiness Sai Maa. Align with your soul's purpose, tap into your inner peace and be of service during this critical time on the planet.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
An Evening with Great Barrington Public Theatre
Great Barrington Public Theatre
July 7, 2024 : 6PM
All proceeds from the evening will go towards supporting GB Public’s playwright’s forum Berkshire Voices, which supports and provides resources to assist writers in developing new work in a supportive and creative community.
Contact: 413.372.1980
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Location: Daniel Arts Center Bard College at Simon’s Rock Gt Barrington
MOBBALLET: CREATING PATHWAYS TO PERFORMANCE
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
July 10, 2024 – July 11, 2024 :
The Pathways to Performance (PTP) Choreographic Program is an exciting new initiative by Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet) founder Theresa Ruth Howard, supported by Jacob’s Pillow and The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Contact: 413.243.0745
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Location: 358 George Carter Road Becket MA 01223
J S Bach: The Three Partitas for Solo Violin
Aston Magna Festival
July 13, 2024 : 6PM
Performance and Commentary - Daniel Stepner, Artistic Director, Baroque Violin
Contact: 888.492.1283
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Location: St James Place. 352 Main Street. Great Barrington MA
In the Fire
Hudson Hall
July 15, 2024 : 2PM & 7PM
Femmes du Feu Creations, Canada. What starts with a firefighter’s coat and boots explodes into a whistful multidisciplinary performance featuring aerial, dance, storytelling, music, and fire in Canadian performer Holly Treddenick’s ode to firefighters.
Contact: 518.822.1438
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Location: 327 Warren Street. Hudson. NY 12534
An Evening with Pretenders
Tanglewood
July 16, 2024 :
Contact: 413.637.1600
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Location: Koussevitzky Music Shed 297 West Street Lenox MA 01240
Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues,
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
July 19, 2024 : 8PM
Known principally as the vocalist, lead guitarist and composer for The Moody Blues, his is an enduring talent that has helped to define the times in which he has worked.
Contact: 413.644.9040
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Location: 14 Castle Street Great Barrington MA 01230
Hamlet
Performance Spaces for the 21st Century
July 19, 2024 – July 20, 2024 :
Hamlet, boldly reimagined by Chela De Ferrari, founding artistic director of Peru’s Teatro La Plaza, adapts Shakespeare’s classic for a group of young actors with Down syndrome. woman chosen to carry out the ritual refuses.
Contact: 800.838.3006
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Location: PS21 Pavilion Theater 980 Route 66 in Chatham NY 12037
Side-By-Side-By-Side: Schubert, Chopin, and Three Grand Pianos
Aston Magna Festival
July 20, 2024 : 6PM
David Hyun-su Kim, Piano, Guest Curator. Schubert Bb Sonata, D. 960. Chopin: Mosaic Suite in the Style of Clara Schumann.
Contact: 888.492.1283
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Location: St James Place. 352 Main Street. Great Barrington MA
Patton Oswalt: Effervescent
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
July 21, 2024 : 8PM
Patton Oswalt continues to leave his distinctive imprint across all areas of entertainment, from his award-winning comedy specials to his many guest roles on television.
Contact: 413.644.9040
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Location: 14 Castle Street Great Barrington MA 01230
29th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival
Litchfield Performing Arts Inc
July 26, 2024 – July 28, 2024 :
FRIIDAY, JULY 26
5:45PM The Opening Night Gala
7:45PM- Alexa Tarantino Quartet
SATURDAY, JULY 27
3:00PM – Amina Figarova Sextet and the Matsiko Orphan Choir
4:45PM - Allison, Cardenas and Nash
6:30PM - Bill Charlap Trio with Bill on Piano
SUNDAY, JULY 28
12:00PM - Sunday Jazz Jazz Brunch starring Albert Rivera
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Location: The Frederick Gunn School 22 Kirby Rd Washington CT 06793
DANCERS OF DAMELAHAMID
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
July 26, 2024 – July 27, 2024 :
The Dancers of Damelahamid is an Indigenous dance company from the Northwest Coast of British Columbia with a rich history of masked dance. Through dramatic dance, captivating narrative, intricately carved masks, and elaborate regalia, the company finds innovative ways to bring all audiences into the art, history, language, and traditions of Indigenous culture.
Contact: 413.243.0745
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Location: 358 George Carter Road Becket MA 01223
From Suffering to Salvation
Omega Institute
July 26, 2024 – July 28, 2024 :
Join Panache Desai in this weekend retreat as he energetically supports you to meet what's unfolding and embrace the truth that within you is the capacity to be safe, secure, and empowered in yourself.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: Live Stream
Fête des Fleurs: The Founders' Gala
Berkshire Botanical Garden
July 27, 2024 : 6PM – 11PM
BBG's 90th Birthday Celebration. As the sun sets over a summer garden in bloom, we welcome you to cocktails around the Center House veranda and fire fountain, followed by a delicious meal under a festive tent, capped by a glorious night of dancing under the stars.
Contact: 413.944.8504
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Location: 600 Stockbridge Road Great Barrington MA 01230
Sonata, What Do You Want From Me?
Aston Magna Festival
July 27, 2024 : 6PM
Julie Andrijeski, Guest Director, Violin, and ensemble. Sonatas and solo works from 1600 - 1713.
Contact: 888.492.1283
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Location: St James Place. 352 Main Street. Great Barrington MA
Yoga & Longevity
Omega Institute
July 28, 2024 – August 2, 2024 :
8 Secrets to a Long, Happy & Healthy Life. Enjoy daily yoga and meditation practices and learn what happy, long-lived people share in common on retreat with author and yogi Bender.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
2024 Gala
Barrington Stage
July 29, 2024 :
The 2024 Gala raises support for BSC's Education Fund, which impacts the lives of more than 4,000 young people across Berkshire County each year.
Contact: 413.236.8888
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Location: The Stationery Factory. 63 Flansburg Avenue. Dalton MA
Mahaiwe Gala
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
August 1, 2024 :
Three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Samara Joy will headline the 2024 Gala. The 24-year-old vocalist makes her case to join the likes of Sarah, Ella, and Billie as the next mononymous jazz-singing sensation recorded by the venerable Verve Records.
Contact: 413.644.9040
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Location: 14 Castle Street Great Barrington MA 01230
2024 Gala: Samara Joy
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
August 1, 2024 : 8PM
Samara Joy will headline the Mahaiwe's 2024 Gala. The 24-year-old vocalist makes her case to join the likes of Sarah, Ella, and Billie as the next mononymous jazz-singing sensation recorded by the venerable Verve Records.
Contact: 413.644.9040
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Location: 14 Castle Street Great Barrington MA 01230
David Dorfman Dance
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
August 3, 2024 – August 4, 2024 :
David Dorfman has been on a mission “to get the whole world dancing” by delivering audiences a provocative mix of visceral dance, music, and text, in performances that offer post-modern dance as something inviting, accessible and interactive.
Contact: 413.243.0745
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Location: 358 George Carter Road Becket MA 01223
Gala 2024
Hancock Shaker Village
August 3, 2024 :
The Summer Gala is a benefit to support Hancock Shaker Village’s mission of preserving & sharing the Shaker legacy with all generations. 100% of the net proceeds go to support the operation of the Village.
Contact: 413.443.0188
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Location: 34 Lebanon Mountain Road Hancock MA 01237
English Extravaganza
Aston Magna Festival
August 4, 2024 : 3PM
Daniel Stepner, Artistic Director, Violin, with instrumental ensemble and vocal quintet. Henry Purcell: Songs, Sonatas and Catches. John Eccles: The Judgement of Paris (1701) A masque depicting the beauty contest between Venus, Juno and Pallas
Contact: 888.492.1283
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Location: St James Place. 352 Main Street. Great Barrington MA
Gibney Company
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
August 7, 2024 – August 11, 2024 :
The creators of “sharp and satisfying” contemporary dance (The New York Times), Gibney Company lives at “the intersection of art and social action.”
Contact: 413.243.0745
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Location: 358 George Carter Road Becket MA 01223
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
August 9, 2024 : 8PM
For 60 years, South Africa’s five-time Grammy Award winners, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has warmed the hearts of audiences worldwide with uplifting vocal harmonies, signature dance moves and charming onstage banter.
Contact: 413.644.9040
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Location: 14 Castle Street Great Barrington MA 01230
Gifts of Love
Mac-Haydn Theatre
August 21, 2024 – August 23, 2024 :
From stage to screen, the music of Stephen Schwartz has captured the hearts (and ears) of audiences and artists alike for more than 50 years.
Contact: 518.392.9292
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Location: 1925 Route 203 Chatham NY 12037
Faust by Charles Gounod
Berkshire Opera Festival
August 24, 2024 – August 30, 2024 :
Old Dr. Faust sells his soul to the devil to be young again. But his decision has devastating consequences.
Contact: 413.997.4444
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Location: Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA
Lady Moon & the Eclipse with Kendra McKinley
Performance Spaces for the 21st Century
August 29, 2024 : 8PM
Multicultural music collective layers their soaring vocal textures over contemporary R&B and Afrobeat-influenced rhythms to deliver “celestial magic”.
Contact: 800.838.3006
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Location: Pavilion Theatre 980 Route 66 in Chatham NY 12037
Oldtone Music Festival
September 5, 2024 – September 8, 2024 :
This year’s headlining act is Grammy Award-winning recording artists Los Texmaniacs, a conjunto band created by Max Baca in 1997. The festival is a three-day hoot.
Contact: jvprpr@gmail.com
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Location: Cool Whisper Farm Hillsdale NY
Getting the Love You Want
Omega Institute
September 20, 2024 – September 22, 2024 :
The Workshop gives couples the concepts and skills they need to co-create a safe relationship, eliminate negativity, experience and sustain deep connection, and experience joyful aliveness.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
The Way of Awareness
Omega Institute
September 22, 2024 – September 27, 2024 :
With Will Kabat-Zinn and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness has everything to do with open-hearted attention to the unfolding of experience as it is. In most Asian languages, the word for "mind" and the word for "heart" are the same word.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
Alan Cumming
Stissing Center
September 28, 2024 : 8PM
This event is a significant fundraising event for our organization, and we are beyond thrilled that Alan Cumming will be on our stage!!
Contact: 518.771.3340
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Location: Pine Plains NY 12567
Suzanne Vega:
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
October 5, 2024 : 8PM
Old Songs. New Songs. Other Songs. Suzanne Vega emerged as a leading figure of the folk revival of the early 1980s when, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, she sang what has been called contemporary folk or neo-folk songs of her own creation
Contact: 413.644.9040
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Location: 14 Castle Street Great Barrington MA 01230
Meditation Party
Omega Institute
October 11, 2024 – October 13, 2024 :
Reckless Conviviality With Mindfulness Superfriends. Develop mindful connections with yourself and others, and up your game with meditation superfriends Dan Harris, Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
Pink Martini
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
October 12, 2024 : 8PM
Drawing inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop Pink Martini provides more beautiful and inclusive musical soundtracks for political fundraisers for causes such as civil rights, affordable housing, the environment, libraries, public broadcasting, education and parks.
Contact: 413.644.9040
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Location: 14 Castle Street Great Barrington MA 01230
The Wailin’ Jennys
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
November 23, 2024 : 8PM
Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse — three distinct voices that together make an achingly perfect vocal sound.
Contact: 413.644.9040
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Location: 14 Castle Street Great Barrington MA 01230

Ongoing Events

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James Turrell: Into the Light
MASSMoCA
July 12, 2020 – December 31, 2025 :
In James Turrell’s hands, light is more than simply a source of illumination: it is a discrete, physical object. His sculptures and architectural interventions elevate our experience and perception of light and space.
Contact: 413.662.2111
massmoca.org
Location: 1040 MASS MoCA WAY North Adams, MA 01247
Rita McBride: Arena Momentum
Dia:Beacon
July 1, 2023 – January 15, 2025 :
This exhibition centers on the artist’s long-standing interest in architecture, design, and sculpture as they relate to the public sphere in forms such as seating structures, movement-guiding systems, and commercial awnings.
Contact: 845.440.0100
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Location: Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York
Between Worlds: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni
Norman Rockwell Museum
November 18, 2023 – May 27, 2024 :
The first major American retrospective dedicated to the art and design work of groundbreaking modernist designer and children’s book illustrator Leo Lionni (1910-1999).
Contact: 413.931.2221
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Location: 9 Route 183 Stockbridge MA 01262
Olalekan Jeyifous: Even in Arcadia...
Art Omi
March 16, 2024 – June 2, 2024 :
Drawing inspiration from the Arcadian myth, the exhibition juxtaposes picturesque portrayals of idyllic pastoral life with glimpses of a retro-futurist urban protopia set within the Hudson Valley.
Opening Reception. Saturday, March 16 3-5PM
Contact: 518.392.4747
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Location: 1405 County Route 22 Ghent. NY. 12075
Untitled
Dia:Beacon
April 5, 2024 – May 1, 2025 :
“Untitled” embodies the productive liminality Gonzalez-Torres embraced throughout his practice, refusing fixed meanings or categories and unfolding at the intersection of private and public, interior and exterior, and domestic and institutional.
Contact: 845.440.0100
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Location: 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York 12508
I Destroyed the Tennis Ball....
Craven Contemporary
April 6, 2024 – June 2, 2024 :
The show comprises a selection of prints by the artist all featuring animals - some dogs and cats as well as a fish, horse, bird, frog, rabbit and squirrel. Even an elephant and polar bear too!
Contact: 646.355.8142
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Location: 5 Old Barn Road. Kent CT 06757
Live It Up!, Work by Joelle Sander
Cornwall Library
April 13, 2024 – May 18, 2024 :
A selection of bold, vivid landscape and abstract works
by artist Joelle Sander (1942–2023) that fully justify the name of the show.
Opening reception is Saturday, April 13 5-7PM Registration for the reception is requested
Contact: 860.672.6874
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Location: 30 Pine Street Cornwall CT 06753
New Exhibitions
Five Points Gallery
April 19, 2024 – May 18, 2024 :
“Ukraine Defiant”, by Elena Kalman; and “Paper Play” a group exhibition featuring Meg Bloom, Denise Manseau, Julie Pereira, Krista Narciso, Chris Perry, Julie Shapiro, and Karen Wheeler.
Opening Reception: April 19, 6-8PM
In-Person Artist Talk: Friday, May 10 at 6:30PM
Contact: 860.618.7222
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Location: 7 Water Street Torrington CT 06790
Talking Pictures by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Hudson Hall
April 20, 2024 – June 2, 2024 :
Lindsay-Hogg is best known for his collaborations with Rock’n Roll luminaries The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and many others.
Opening reception Saturday, April 20, 2024 from 5-7PM
Contact: 518.822.1438
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Location: 327 Warren Street. Hudson. NY 12534
Elizabeth MacDonald: Finding My Way
Washington Art Association
April 20, 2024 – May 26, 2024 :
In addition to her sculptural and ceramic pieces, MacDonald, an accomplished working artist in a variety of mediums, will also be exhibiting paintings and works on paper created throughout her long and impressive career.
Contact: 860.868.2878
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Location: 4 Bryan Memorial Plaza Washington Depot CT 06794
Re-Rooted
Berkshire Botanical Garden
April 20, 2024 – May 27, 2024 :
An exhibition featuring the drawings of Brooklyn-based artist Ellen Driscoll, who takes her inspiration from the resilience and regenerative power of plants.
Opening reception Saturday, April 20 5-7PM
Contact: 413.298.3926
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Location: 600 Stockbridge Road Great Barrington MA 01230
Between the Two of Us
Alofft Gallery
May 4, 2024 – June 2, 2024 :
Featuring identical twin sisters, Sandra and Susan Wakeen, Between the Two of Us chronicles the artists’ shared journey to express their unique narratives on the human form.
Contact: 860.361.6389
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Location: 41 West Street Litchfield CT 06759
a world between worlds
Carol Corey Fine Art
May 4, 2024 – June 9, 2024 :
Through a universal visual language, my paintings are fables created to communicate moral lessons about how we treat the world in which we exist.
Contact: 917.797.9654
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Location: 12 Old Barn Road. Kent CT 06757
David Shrigley | The Animals
Craven Contemporary
May 4, 2024 – June 2, 2024 :
A selection of prints by the artist all featuring animals - some dogs and cats as well as a fish, horse, bird, frog, rabbit and squirrel. Even an elephant and polar bear too!
Contact: 646.355.8142
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Location: 5 Old Barn Road. Kent CT 06757
Artists connected by Friendship:
The Re-Institute
May 4, 2024 – June 15, 2024 :
Julia Kunin, Barbara Zucker, Meg Lipke, Catherine Hall and Joanne Howard.
Artist talk June 2nd 4pm
Contact: 518.567.5359
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Location: 1395 Boston Corners Road Millerton NY 12546
This MUST be the Place?
Mad Rose Gallery
May 9, 2024 – June 9, 2024 :
An exhibition featuring the photographic works of Lee Day, Alon Koppel, and Jada Fabrizio.
Artist Reception Saturday, May 11th 4-7PM
Contact: 518.592.1085
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Location: 916 North Elm Avenue Millerton NY 12546
Kathia St. Hilaire: Invisible Empires
Clark Art Institute:
May 11, 2024 – September 22, 2024 :
Haitian-American artist in Kathia St. Hilaire’s distinctive technique combines printmaking, painting, collage, and weavingSeptember 22, 2024 in the galleries of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. A version of the exhibition will go on view at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky from October 25, 2024 through February 9, 2025.
Contact: 413.528.1216 ex 3102
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Location: 250 Division Street Great Barrington MA 01230
A Star Danced
David Hunt Library
May 11, 2024 – June 7, 2024 :
A Star Danced: The Paintings of Mary Anne Carley and Theresa Kenny. The exhibition features the work of two Sharon-based painters who happen to be mother and daughter. Mary Anne Carley uses a multitude of media in her abstract and impressionist paintings and monoprints including acrylic, watercolor and ink.
Reception: Saturday May 11, 4PM-6PM
Contact: 860.824.7572
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Location: 63 Main Street. Falls Village. CT 06031
Tall Shadows in Short Order
Wassaic Project
May 18, 2024 – September 14, 2024 :
Our 2024 Summer Exhibition will feature 30 artists throughout all seven floors of Maxon Mills, with a focus on large, site-specific installations.
Contact: 855.927.7242
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Location: Wassaic NY 12592-0220
Happiest with Blossoms Above My Head and Flowers Around My Feet
Kenise Barnes Fine Art
May 18, 2024 – June 30, 2024 :
Jackie Battenfield and Margot Glass. An exhibition featuring two contemporary artists whose work is focused on botany.
Reception May 18, 4-6PM
Kent Gallery Day, conversation and walk-through with the artists June 8
Contact: 860 592 0220
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Location: 7 Fulling Lane. Kent CT 06757
Dog People
Great Barrington Public Theatre
May 31, 2024 – June 16, 2024 :
Dog People is about two people, two dogs, one day in the park. The dogs are rescues and the people need rescuing. Who rescues who?
Contact: 413.372.1980
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Location: Daniel Arts Center Bard College at Simon’s Rock Gt Barrington
The Animal Art of Julie Bell
Berkshire Museum
June 1, 2024 – September 23, 2024 :
Fantasy Artist Julie Bell. “When I’m painting animals with all their beauty and wild nature, I experience the kind of at-one-with-the-universe feeling described by people who meditate."
Contact: 413.443.7171 ext. 312
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Location: 39 South Street Pittsfield MA 01201
Mr. Finn's 2024 Cabaret Series
Barrington Stage
June 2, 2024 – July 8, 2024 :
Paris to Broadway | June 2 & June 3 | 8PM
Joshua Henry | June 9 & June 10 | 8P
15 Stories | June 30 & July 1 | 8PM
The New Belters | July 7 & July 8 | 8PM
Contact: 413.236.8888
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Location: The Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center,36 Linden Street Pittsfield.
What Me Worry?
Norman Rockwell Museum
June 8, 2024 – October 27, 2024 :
A landmark exhibition exploring the unforgettable art and satire of MAD Magazine. More than 150 original illustrations and cartoons from the magazine's "Usual Gang of Idiots" and next-generation creators.
Contact: 413.931.2221
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Location: 9 Route 183 Stockbridge MA 01262
Shapeshifters
Hudson Hall
June 8, 2024 – July 28, 2024 :
An exhibition of paintings celebrating the use of shape and color in the work of two abstract artists: Hudson-based painter Allan Osterweil and his daughter, Ara Osterweil, a painter, writer and scholar of postwar art and cinema.
Opening reception with Artists: Saturday June 8 6-8PM
Contact: 518.822.1438
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Location: 327 Warren Street. Hudson. NY 12534
La Cage aux Folles
Barrington Stage
June 11, 2024 – July 7, 2024 :
BSC's glitzy new production kicks of our 30th Anniversary Season. Here's why you should not miss the party of the summer in the Berkshires.
Contact: 413.236.8888
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Location: Boyd-Quinson Stage 30 Union Street Pittsfield MA
West Side Story
Mac-Haydn Theatre
June 13, 2024 – June 23, 2024 :
Often regarded as the greatest love story of all time, this landmark Broadway musical has a powerful, poignant book and unforgettable music and lyrics by iconic team Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.
Contact: 518.392.9292
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Location: 1925 Route 203 Chatham NY 12037
Bard SummerScape
Fisher Center at Bard
June 20, 2024 – August 18, 2024 :
Eight weeks of live music, opera, dance, and theater.
“A hothouse for the creation of uncompromising, cross-disciplinary and sometimes hard to describe hits.”—New York Times
Contact: 845.758.7900
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Location: 60 Manor Avenue Annandale-On-Hudson NY 12504
A Body of Water
Shakespeare & Company
June 21, 2024 – July 21, 2024 :
A sophisticated and successful couple, wake up one morning in an isolated summer house high above a body of water. The weather’s fine; the view’s magnificent. There’s only one problem — neither of them can remember who they are.
Contact: 413.637.1199
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Location: Roman Garden Theatre 70 Kemble Street Lenox MA 01240
Itty Neuhaus & Bill Schuck
The Re-Institute
June 22, 2024 – August 3, 2024 :
Opening Saturday June 22nd 4-6PM
Contact: 518.567.5359
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Location: 1395 Boston Corners Road Millerton NY 12546
Freedom from Chronic Pain
Omega Institute
June 23, 2024 – June 28, 2024 :
A Mind-Body Approach with Nicole Sachs. Understanding the mind-body connection is key to freeing ourselves from chronic pain.
Contact: 845.266.4444
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Location: 150 Lake Drive. Rhinebeck. NY 12572
A Tender Thing
Barrington Stage
June 25, 2024 – July 20, 2024 :
What if Romeo and Juliet did not die as teenagers, but lived on into old age? Ben Power has brilliantly
taken Shakespeare’s words, rearranged and reimagined the play’s scenes, and the result is a provocative
tale of lasting love and commitment.
Contact: 413.236.8888
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Location: St Germain Stage 36 Linden Street Pittsfield MA
Spiegeltent
Fisher Center at Bard
June 28, 2024 – August 17, 2024 :
The spectacular Spiegeltent returns to SummerScape, offering sumptuous summer weekends of dazzling performances, drinks, and dancing.
Contact: 845.758.7900
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Location: 60 Manor Avenue Annandale-On-Hudson NY 12504
By Their Hands | Women Artists
Eckert Fine Art
June 29, 2024 – July 27, 2024 : Various
To honor the women artists features those who left their mark in years past all the way to current emerging artists. Names known to many: Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Piper, Sally Michel Avery, Carolyn Plochmann and Faith Ringgold will be shown along with talented female artists.
Artist reception June 29th from 2-6PM
Contact: 860.619.0707
www.janeeckertfineart.com
Location: 10 Titus Road. Washington Depot. CT 06794
Birth of a Shadow
Chesterwood
June 29, 2024 – October 21, 2024 :
Curated by gallerist Lauren Clark who has chosen 7 regional sculptors whose work serves as an evocative exploration of the intersection between light, space and form
Artist’s Reception: Saturday, June 29th 5-6:30PM
Contact: 413.298.3579
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Location: 3 Williamsville Road Stockbridge MA 01262
BOEING BOEING
Barrington Stage
July 3, 2024 – August 3, 2024 :
Fly to Paris in the swinging ’60s and meet playboy Bernard. With help from his housekeeper, Bertha, who plays flight control, Bernard keeps a rotating group of flight attendants on standby.
Contact: 413.236.8888
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Location: Boyd Quinson Stage 30 Union Street Pittsfield MA
Survival of the Unfit
Great Barrington Public Theatre
July 6, 2024 – July 21, 2024 :
Dog People is about two people, two dogs, one day in the park. The dogs are rescues and the people need rescuing. Who rescues who?
Contact: 413.372.1980
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Location: Daniel Arts Center Bard College at Simon’s Rock Gt Barrington
Rent
Mac-Haydn Theatre
July 18, 2024 – July 28, 2024 :
Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is back at the Mac-Haydn. Having paved the way for contemporary musical theatre, RENT is a beloved cultural phenomenon, known for its raw, resonant storytelling and remarkable rock score.
Contact: 518.392.9292
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Location: 1925 Route 203 Chatham NY 12037
Night at the Speakeasy
Great Barrington Public Theatre
July 26, 2024 – August 11, 2024 :
A new cabaret show spotlighting up-and-coming stage star Janelle Farias Sando’s powerhouse voice and energizing presence.
Contact: 413.372.1980
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Location: Daniel Arts Center Bard College at Simon’s Rock Gt Barrington
Mr. Finn's 2024 Cabaret Series
Barrington Stage
August 4, 2024 – September 1, 2024 :
Matt Doyle | August 4 & August 5 | 8PM
Krysta Rodriguez | August 11 & August 12 | 8PM
Standby, Me | August 30 | 8PM
An Evening with Telly Leung | August 31 - September 1 | 8PM
Contact: 413.236.8888
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Location: The Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center,36 Linden Street Pittsfield.
Berlioz and His World
Fisher Center at Bard
August 9, 2024 – August 18, 2024 :
In eleven themed concert programs, the festival examines the life and times of visionary French composer Hector Berlioz, whose grand-scale works, startling sonorities, and advanced literary leanings helped redefine musical Romanticism.
Contact: 845.758.7900
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Location: 60 Manor Avenue Annandale-On-Hudson NY 12504
Family Eye
The Re-Institute
August 10, 2024 – September 14, 2024 :
Opening August 10th 4-6PM
Contact: 518.567.5359
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Location: 1395 Boston Corners Road Millerton NY 12546
The Islanders
Shakespeare & Company
August 25, 2024 – July 21, 2024 :
World Premiere. Anna lives an insular life on an underpopulated island in the Great Lakes. She has few friends and likes it that way. Her quiet, controlled world is turned upside down by the arrival of a charming but secretive new neighbor Dutch.
Contact: 413.637.1199
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Location: Tina Packer Playhouse 70 Kemble Street Lenox MA 01240
The Fantasticks
Mac-Haydn Theatre
September 5, 2024 – September 15, 2024 :
The world’s longest-running musical hits our stage after running Off-Broadway for 42 years, a beloved, timeless classic – telling a tale of a young couple navigating the dichotomies of love.
Contact: 518.392.9292
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Location: 1925 Route 203 Chatham NY 12037
Kathleen Kucka & Janis Stemmermann
The Re-Institute
September 21, 2024 – October 26, 2024 :
Saturday September 21st 4-6PM
Contact: 518.567.5359
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Location: 1395 Boston Corners Road Millerton NY 12546
Anita Kunz: Original Sisters
Norman Rockwell Museum
November 9, 2024 – May 26, 2025 :
Portraits of Tenacity and Courage. A stunning series of portraits by internationally acclaimed illustrator Anita Kunz. These portraits honor contemporary and historical women—both noted and little-known—who have made important contributions to art, science, technology, history, politics, education, and more.
Contact: 413.931.2221
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Location: 9 Route 183 Stockbridge MA 01262
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