Deemed strikingly modern technically stunning (Daily Californian), the nation’s longest-running professional ballet company will return to the site of its heralded East Coast debut this summer after a 70-year absence. Led by Artistic Director and former Artistic Director of London’s English National Ballet Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet will come to Jacob’s Pillow for the first […]

Next up for the summer will be iBoss, written by Thomas Kee and directed by Clay Hopper, director of last year’s highly acclaimed show How To Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos. Taking place in a not so distant future, the rapidly accelerating intelligence of AI systems has created "Lisa." Powered by AI, she wields enormous power. Shockingly, […]

Written by Chess Jakobs, The American Five explores pivotal moments in the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Bayard Rustin, Stanley Levison and Clarence B. Jones during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Set in the tense days leading up to the March on Washington, the play examines the strategy, […]

Lovesong is a tender and quietly powerful play by Abi Morgan that traces a marriage across decades, revealing how love evolves, deepens and endures over time. Moving fluidly between youth and later years, the play places two versions of a couple side by side, allowing past and present to unfold simultaneously on stage. Through their […]

New York Theatre Workshop’s Mind the Gap will return to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center this summer, August 3-7. The intergenerational workshop will take place in the Indigo Room all week long, culminating in a free public performance in that space. Mind the Gap is a weeklong performance workshop that brings together youth and elders to explore […]

Set over the course of a single late night in a small Hell’s Kitchen apartment, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune is a tender, funny, and deeply human play about two people standing at the edge of connection. Frankie, a guarded waitress, and Johnny, an earnest short-order cook, work together at a Manhattan […]

Often with the sounds of the morning orchestra rehearsal as a backdrop, see the amazing variety of mature specimen trees on the Tanglewood grounds and enjoy views of the Berkshire Hills from a variety of different vantage points. As you tour the BSO’s beloved summer home, consider which trees may have inspired the Tanglewood name […]