Shakespeare & Company’s 48th season begins with the World Premiere of The Victim by Lawrence Goodman. A successful New York doctor whose racial diversity training has gone horribly wrong. A health aide grappling with racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Holocaust survivor facing her own horror, and finding her way back to love and healing. Three women, […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Presented under the Berkshires’ summer skies, Romeo and Juliet proves that even the ultimate case of love at first sight can lead to… well, chaos. Meddling families and murderous duels meld to offer an evening of sword fights, swinging soirees, and secret weddings — but the play is also full of exuberant vulgarity, harsh brutality and above all, […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Discover the inspiring stories of world-changing trailblazers in our Summer Author Series! Award-winning authors of biography present exciting new research and ideas. Join us as we share the stories of ground-breaking visionaries—scientists, activists, thought leaders, and artists—who have broken barriers and reshaped the world. Authors speaking in July 2025: 7/07 from 4-5 pm and 7/08 […]
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Great, great, great granddaughter of Herman Melville and playwright Elizabeth Doss will lead writers in week-long playwriting intensive. The workshop will incorporate devising, site-specific, and play-based strategies in addition to story craft, and playwriting nuts and bolts.
The Berkshire Jewish Film Festival is celebrating the 39th consecutive year of films. Films will be presented at 4 pm and 8 pm on Mondays, from July 14 through August 18 at Lenox Memorial and Middle High School. The press release and calendar listings are attached below. 07/14 - 4:00 pm: Art Spieglman: Disaster is […]
Diversity and Inclusion, History and Heritage, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Music Mondays series of live concerts begins June 30 and continues through Aug. 25, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., featuring traditional favorites and new voices from the Berkshires and beyond. Bring a blanket or lawn chairs, stroll the grounds and dance. Music Mondays will take place rain or shine, but in case […]
Family Friendly, Outdoor Event, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Every Monday - West African & Caribbean drum and song classes with Aimee Gelinas M.ED at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield. Beginner class at 5:30 pm; advanced class at 6:30 pm advanced. Registration required for all new students.
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Stravinsky) TMC Conducting Fellows RAVEL Suite from Mother Goose RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
Accessibility Friendly, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Paginations is a series of year-round public installations featuring works drawn from the Clark library's extensive holdings and presented in the Manton Research Center’s reading room. Bold by Design: Mid-century Modern Graphic Art brings together visually striking book covers, illustrations, and advertisements to showcase the clean lines and bright colors of the mid-century modern design aesthetic in print. […]
A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 features paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts made by twenty-five professional women artists in Great Britain who were, in fact, answering Virginia Woolf’s call during her lifetime. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which furthered their […]
Arts and Culture, Exhibits, History and Heritage