Mariel Capanna (b. 1988) plays what she calls “games of remembering” as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms like confetti across deep, atmospheric surfaces, creating compositions […]
This summer, Berkshire Botanical Garden (BBG) will transform into a haven for artistic reverie with DayDream, a new exhibition featuring works by some of the most renowned names in contemporary and modern art. DayDream will run in BBG’s Leonhardt Galleries, inviting visitors to escape the everyday and immerse themselves in the boundless possibilities of the […]
Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they’ve been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
This streetwise musical will take you to the stoops of the Bronx in the 1960s—where a young man is caught between the father he loves and the mob boss he’d love to be. Based on the critically acclaimed play that inspired the now classic film, this streetwise musical will take you to the stoops of […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Beloved among ballet fans the world over, The Sarasota Ballet returns to Jacob’s Pillow for the first time in ten years. Pushed to new heights under the leadership of director Iain Webb, assistant director Margaret Barbieri (both formerly of The Royal Ballet), and Joseph Volpe executive director (formerly of the Metropolitan Opera), the company has […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Jacob’s Pillow welcomes Obie Award-winning performer, writer, and artist Andrew Schneider. In HERE, commissioned this year by the Pillow, Schneider joins with Berlin-based dancers and collaborators Margaux Marielle-Trehouart and Joel Suarez Gomez (Sasha Waltz & Guests, Mouvoir, Lausitz Festival) to tell the story of a single space over eons, in which innumerable lives, dreams, and […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Constanze Mozart, wife of the great composer, struggles mightily in the wake of his too-early death in 1791 — to feed her children, to survive her own shattering grief, and to secure her husband's astonishing musical legacy by completing his great unfinished masterwork, the Requiem in D Minor. With the odds and the whole of […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
The Williamstown 2025 Season (W71) is made up of three extended weekends, each with dozens of performances, opportunities to gather and connect, and celebrate the transformative power of theatre. W71 will rock you, nourish you, move you, and take your breath away. The world premieres, boldly reimagined classic American plays, chamber opera, choreography on ice, […]
Festivals, Performing Arts & Entertainment
After a powerful developmental debut at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Festival of New Jewish Plays last summer, Out of Character returns for a fully realized production at The Unicorn Theatre. Written and performed by Tony Award winner Ari’el Stachel, this deeply personal and profoundly moving solo play takes audiences on an intimate journey through identity, mental health and […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
A life-size sculpture of W.E.B. Du Bois will be unveiled in front of the Mason Public Library in Great Barrington. The sculpture will sit at the center of a redesigned library plaza, which will feature renovated steps and a curving marble bench to welcome the community. Chesterwood, the home of sculptor Daniel Chester French, will […]
Arts and Culture, Berkshire250, Exhibits