June 2019
Free Fun Friday at Mahawie Performing Arts Center
The Acrobats of Cirque-tacular features one dazzling circus feat after another in a high-energy family-friendly flurry of fun! Indulge your curiosity and celebrate your senses as our troupe of acrobats, aerialists, and circus specialty artists bend, twist, flip, and fly into your hearts and minds! Mind-boggling artistry and athleticism to ignite the imaginations of the young and the young in spirit alike!
Find out more »London’s National Theatre in HD: Small Island
Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play in cinemas, filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of…
Find out more »July 2019
MOMIX: Opus Cactus
If Salvador Dali and Leonardo da Vinci got inspired by National Geographic you'd get Opus Cactus, Moses Pendleton's amazing evening length work about the desert world. With their signature illusion style, MOMIX explore the mysterious creatures and cacti of the desert. Surreal, wondrous and massively creative, there's nothing like the MOMIX performance experience.
Find out more »MOMIX: Opus Cactus
If Salvador Dali and Leonardo da Vinci got inspired by National Geographic you'd get Opus Cactus, Moses Pendleton's amazing evening length work about the desert world. With their signature illusion style, MOMIX explore the mysterious creatures and cacti of the desert. Surreal, wondrous and massively creative, there's nothing like the MOMIX performance experience.
Find out more »Free Fun Friday: Acrobats of Cirque-tacular
General Admission; first-come, first-served Plus a 1pm performance for summer camps and groups For group reservations at the afternoon show, contact [email protected] The Acrobats of Cirque-tacular features one dazzling circus feat after another in a high-energy family-friendly flurry of fun! Indulge your curiosity and celebrate your senses as our troupe of acrobats, aerialists, and circus specialty artists bend, twist, flip, and fly into your hearts and minds! Mind-boggling artistry and athleticism to ignite the imaginations of the young and the…
Find out more »Woodstock (1970)
Woodstock documents the legendary music festival of 1969. The film features many prolific performers including Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Arlo Guthrie, Santana, Jimi Hendrix and more. The Woodstock festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year!
Find out more »Buddy Guy
At age 82, Buddy Guy is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. He has received seven Grammy Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, 34 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement,…
Find out more »Patti LuPone: Don’t Monkey with Broadway
In Don’t Monkey with Broadway, two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone explores, through indelible interpretations of classic Broadway show tunes by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jule Styne, Stephen Schwartz, Charles Strouse, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, how her life-long love affair with Broadway began and her concern for what the Great White Way is becoming today.
Find out more »August 2019
David Sedaris
With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is the master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers addressing the human condition. Calypso, his latest collection of essays, is a New York Times best-seller, and a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The audiobook of Calypso was been nominated for a 2019 Grammy in the Best Spoken Word Album category.
Find out more »Aston Magna Music Festival presents: Bouquet of Baroque Concertos
Program: Season Finale Bouquet of Baroque Concertos J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043 Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, BWV 1046 Vivaldi Concerto for Four Violins Van Wassenaer Concerto Armonico Zelenka “Hypocondrie”
Find out more »2019 Gala: John Mulaney
In honor of Maggie Buchwald Founding Board Member and Past Chair 5pm COCKTAILS On the lawn above Town Hall 6pm DINNER Catered by Old Inn on the Green 8pm PERFORMANCE John Mulaney is an Emmy Award winning writer and comedian. He has hosted SNL twice, in April 2018 and March 2019. Previously, John starred in the Broadway hit, Oh, Hello on Broadway alongside Nick Kroll. He can most recently be heard in Spider-Man: Into the Spider- Verse which won the…
Find out more »Berkshire Opera Festival presents “Don Pasquale”
The crusty old bachelor Don Pasquale decides to marry a much younger wife and produce an heir to spite his nephew, Ernesto, who insists on marrying for love rather than for money. But Pasquale gets much more than he bargained for when Doctor Malatesta and Norina decide to teach him a lesson. Great fun for the whole family and performed by an internationally-renowned cast, Gaetano Donizetti’s comic masterpiece will have you roaring with laughter!
Find out more »Berkshire Opera Festival presents “Don Pasquale”
The crusty old bachelor Don Pasquale decides to marry a much younger wife and produce an heir to spite his nephew, Ernesto, who insists on marrying for love rather than for money. But Pasquale gets much more than he bargained for when Doctor Malatesta and Norina decide to teach him a lesson. Great fun for the whole family and performed by an internationally-renowned cast, Gaetano Donizetti’s comic masterpiece will have you roaring with laughter!
Find out more »Berkshire Opera Festival presents “Don Pasquale”
The crusty old bachelor Don Pasquale decides to marry a much younger wife and produce an heir to spite his nephew, Ernesto, who insists on marrying for love rather than for money. But Pasquale gets much more than he bargained for when Doctor Malatesta and Norina decide to teach him a lesson. Great fun for the whole family and performed by an internationally-renowned cast, Gaetano Donizetti’s comic masterpiece will have you roaring with laughter!
Find out more »September 2019
Fairview Hospital Gala presents Demetri Martin
Fairview Hospital is thrilled to present stand-up comedian, writer, actor and director Demetri Martin's Wandering Mind tour in support of the hospital and the 2019 honoree, Dr. George Veinoglou.
Find out more »October 2019
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company returns for its twelfth consecutive season at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center with three performances over Columbus Day Weekend. The celebrated modern dance company continues the legacy of its late founder Paul Taylor under the new leadership of Artistic Director Michael Novak.
Find out more »Pink Martini
Pink Martini’s "little orchestra" draws inspiration from the romantic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and `50s and crosses genres to make an eclectic, modern sound. Their arrangements of Latin music, jazz, cabaret and cinema scores come together in a sound that defies categorization but is guaranteed to get the audience up out of their seats and dancing in the aisles. This concert will include popular favorites from the band’s 23-year career as well as songs from their latest release, Je…
Find out more »The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Halloween meets Christmas in Henry Selick and Tim Burton’s stop-motion animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack Skellington, the king of Halloween Town, happens upon a different world called Christmas Town and endeavors to celebrate the unfamiliar holiday.
Find out more »November 2019
Arlo Guthrie: 50th Anniversary of Alice’s Restaurant
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the movie Alice’s Restaurant, based on the song by Arlo Guthrie. To commemorate the occasion, Guthrie is on extensive tour stretching from the fall of last year through 2020. Guthrie wrote a folk song about a series of unbelievable events that began on Thanksgiving in 1965. “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” struck a chord with the anti-war counterculture. By 1967 Guthrie had gone from playing small clubs to playing festivals and stadiums. “Arthur Penn (who…
Find out more »The Wizard of Oz
The Mahaiwe continues its annual tradition screening The Wizard of Oz over Thanksgiving weekend. Starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, joined by her companions the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, this musical adventure is the quintessential family film for all.
Find out more »December 2019
John Pizzarelli Big Band
John Pizzarelli makes his yearly return to the Mahaiwe for a rare evening of big band music, featuring a 16 piece big band playing arrangements from Mr. Pizzarelli’s one of a kind band book. With charts from arrangers Don Sebesky, John Clayton, Torrie Zito, Dick Lieb and others, and songs from the catalogues of Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Frank Sinatra and the Great American Songbook, this promises to be a swingin’ evening you won’t want to miss!
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The Porches Inn
Norman Rockwell Museum
Courtyard Marriott
Berkshire Theatre Group