October 2018
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Clint Eastwood (The Good), Lee Van Cleef (The Bad) and Eli Wallach (The Ugly) star in Sergio Leone’s famed Spaghetti Western. Known for its use of long shots, close-ups, and tension, Leone's Civil War era epic is considered one of the greatest Westerns of all time.
Find out more »November 2018
Met Opera in HD: Muhly’s Marnie
Nico Muhly’s Marnie, based on Winston Graham’s novel, which in turn inspired Alfred Hitchock’s suspenseful thriller, has its U.S. premiere at the Met this season. Isabel Leonard stars in the title role opposite Christopher Maltman as her blackmailing husband Mark Rutland, Iestyn Davies as his brother Terry, Janis Kelly as Mrs. Rutland, and acclaimed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves as Marnie’s mother. Robert Spano makes his company debut conducting.
Find out more »The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Mahaiwe continues its annual tradition screening The Wizard of Oz on 35mm over Thanksgiving weekend. Join Dorothy and her eccentric band of friends gathered along the way across Oz, a curious world far from her home Kansas. This 1939 fantasy is a celebrated staple in American culture. Runtime: 1 hour 52 mins.
Find out more »December 2018
London’s National Theatre in HD: The Madness of George III
Multi-award-winning drama The Madness of George III will be broadcast to cinemas, in National Theatre Live's first ever broadcast from Nottingham Playhouse. Written by one of Britain's best-loved playwrights Alan Bennett (The History Boys, The Lady in the Van), this epic play was also adapted into a BAFTA Award-winning film following its premiere on stage in 1991. The cast of this new production includes Olivier Award-winners Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Wolf Hall, NT Live Coriolanus) in the title role, and Adrian…
Find out more »30th Anniversary of Scrooged!
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Scrooged with Karen Allen! It's time for some nostalgia and holiday laughs as the Berkshire International Film Festival presents a special screening of Scrooged, the dark comedy update of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol directed by Richard Donner. The film stars Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical television executive whose cutthroat business practices have made him rich and powerful, but left him a coldhearted and lonely cynic. Karen Allen plays his compassionate ex-girlfriend, Claire…
Find out more »Scott Eyerly’s Pre-Broadcast Opera Lecture: Verdi’s La Traviata
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. Eyerly`s fresh approach to opera and classical music has attracted a growing audience. His popular lecture series at the Mahaiwe and his sold-out courses at The Juilliard School`s Evening Division are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.
Find out more »Radio Deluxe
Co-presented with Berkshires Jazz, Inc. Renowned jazz musicians John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey will record their syndicated American-songbook radio program, “Radio Deluxe,” live at the Mahaiwe. This popular show mixes and matches songs in medleys and sequences that flow like a continuing dialogue about life, relationships, and popular culture itself. The common denominator is a playful sense of humor. The husband-and-wife hosts are masters of off-the-cuff repartee. Featuring special guests Maucha Adnet and Duduka Da Fonseca. "Duduka and Maucha have…
Find out more »January 2019
Scott Eyerly’s Pre-Broadcast Opera Lecture: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. Eyerly`s fresh approach to opera and classical music has attracted a growing audience. His popular lecture series at the Mahaiwe and his sold-out courses at The Juilliard School`s Evening Division are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
For the first time at the Met, Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur, the great 18th-century actress in love with the military hero Maurizio, sung by Piotr Beczała. Gianandrea Noseda conducts Cilea’s tragedy, directed by Sir David McVicar, with the action partially set in a working replica of a Baroque theater. The cast also features Anita Rachvelishvili as the Princess of Bouillon, Adriana’s rival for Maurizio’s affections; Ambrogio Maestri as Michonnet, Adriana’s faithful friend; and Carlo Bosi…
Find out more »Bolshoi Ballet in HD: La Bayadere
The temple dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor fall deeply in love, igniting heated passions and murderous intrigues when the Rajah and his daughter Gamzatti discover their forbidden love. La Bayadere is one of the greatest works in classical ballet history – a story of love, death and vengeful judgment, set in India. Dazzling sets and costumes, with one of the most iconic scenes in ballet, the “Kingdom of the Shades,” illuminate the tragic tale of the temple dancer Nikiya’s…
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur (Encore)
For the first time at the Met, Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur, the great 18th-century actress in love with the military hero Maurizio, sung by Piotr Beczała. Gianandrea Noseda conducts Cilea’s tragedy, directed by Sir David McVicar, with the action partially set in a working replica of a Baroque theater. The cast also features Anita Rachvelishvili as the Princess of Bouillon, Adriana’s rival for Maurizio’s affections; Ambrogio Maestri as Michonnet, Adriana’s faithful friend; and Carlo Bosi…
Find out more »February 2019
Above the Timberline Radio Play
Norman Rockwell Museum and The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center present the world premiere of Above the Timberline, a radio play based on the critically acclaimed novel by illustrator/author Gregory Manchess. The radio play, performed by Berkshire County high school students, will be set to a backdrop of Manchess’ illustrations from the book, utilizing both animation and sound effects in its projection. Original artwork from the artist’s book is currently featured in the exhibition Gregory Manchess: Above the Timberline, on view…
Find out more »Scott Eyerly’s Pre-Broadcast Opera Lecture: Bizet’s Carmen
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. Eyerly`s fresh approach to opera and classical music has attracted a growing audience. His popular lecture series at the Mahaiwe and his sold-out courses at The Juilliard School`s Evening Division are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Bizet’s Carmen (Encore)
Clémentine Margaine is opera’s ultimate seductress, opposite Roberto Alagna, who captivated Live in HD audiences as Don José in 2010. Louis Langrée conducts Sir Richard Eyre’s lively production, a favorite in the Met’s repertoire.
Find out more »March 2019
Scott Eyerly’s Pre-Broadcast Opera Lecture: Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. Eyerly`s fresh approach to opera and classical music has attracted a growing audience. His popular lecture series at the Mahaiwe and his sold-out courses at The Juilliard School`s Evening Division are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Bel canto stars Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena team up for a feast of vocal fireworks on the Met stage. Maurizio Muraro is Sergeant Sulplice, with Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.
Find out more »Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Bel canto stars Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena team up for a feast of vocal fireworks on the Met stage. Maurizio Muraro is Sergeant Sulplice, with Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Bel canto stars Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena team up for a feast of vocal fireworks on the Met stage. Maurizio Muraro is Sergeant Sulplice, with Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.
Find out more »Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Bel canto stars Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena team up for a feast of vocal fireworks on the Met stage. Maurizio Muraro is Sergeant Sulplice, with Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.
Find out more »Bolshoi Ballet in HD: The Sleeping Beauty
On her sixteenth birthday, Princess Aurora falls under the curse of the Evil Fairy Carabosse and into a deep slumber lasting one hundred years. Only the kiss of a prince can break the spell. A resplendent fairytale ballet, The Sleeping Beauty features scores of magical characters including fairies, the Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, and a beautiful young Princess Aurora performed by Olga Smirnova, a “truly extraordinary talent” (The Telegraph). This is classical ballet at its finest.
Find out more »Scott Eyerly’s Pre-Broadcast Opera Lecture: Wagner’s Die Walküre
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. Eyerly`s fresh approach to opera and classical music has attracted a growing audience. His popular lecture series at the Mahaiwe and his sold-out courses at The Juilliard School`s Evening Division are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Wagner’s Die Walküre
The second installment of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre, stars heroic soprano Christine Goerke as the warrior goddess Brünnhilde, whose encounter with the mortal twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, sung by Stuart Skelton and Eva-Maria Westbroek, leads her on a journey from Valhalla to earthbound humanity. Philippe Jordan conducts.
Find out more »April 2019
Met Opera Live in HD: Wagner’s Die Walküre
The second installment of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre, stars heroic soprano Christine Goerke as the warrior goddess Brünnhilde, whose encounter with the mortal twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, sung by Stuart Skelton and Eva-Maria Westbroek, leads her on a journey from Valhalla to earthbound humanity. Philippe Jordan conducts.
Find out more »Bolshoi Ballet in HD: The Golden Age
In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita. He follows her to the cabaret and realizes that she is the beautiful dancer “Mademoiselle Margot,” but also the love interest of the local gangster Yashka. With its jazzy score by Dmitri Shostakovich and its music-hall atmosphere featuring beautiful tangos, The Golden Age is a refreshing and colorful dive into the roaring 20’s. A historic ballet that can be…
Find out more »Close Encounters With Music: Prestige Performance – The American Brass Quintet
The American Brass Quintet is peerless among brass ensembles, sculpting new repertoire and setting the artistic standards for the modern classical brass ensemble. The Quintet evening begins with a staple of Romantic brass music—Victor Ewald’s Brass Quintet No. 2, from late 1800’s Russia. Common Heroes, Uncommon Land, a recent commission through the Juilliard School, where they have been in residence for three decades, is a work with an Americana sound by Philip Lasser requiring each player to recite poetry. Three…
Find out more »Chick Corea Trio
Chick Corea has attained iconic status in music. The keyboardist, composer and bandleader is a DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, as well as the fourth-most nominated artist in Grammy Awards history with 63 nods – and 22 wins, in addition to a number of Latin Grammys. From straight-ahead to avant-garde, bebop to jazz-rock fusion, children’s songs to chamber and symphonic works, Chick has touched an astonishing number of musical bases in his career since playing with the…
Find out more »Great Barrington Farmers Market presents A Night of Storytelling about the Power and Purpose of Food
Join us for a night of storytelling to celebrate the power and purpose of food. Local and guest farmers, chefs, and eaters will share their favorite food stoires. Featuring Special guest storyteller Julia Turshen acclaimed food writer and activist, and best selling author of "Small Victories" "Feed the Resistance" and "Now and Again". All tickets sales benefit the Great Barrington Farmers Market SNAP, WIC, and SFMC doubling programs.
Find out more »May 2019
Met Opera Live in HD: Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads an accomplished ensemble in Poulenc’s devastating modern masterpiece of faith and martyrdom. Isabel Leonard is the young Blanche de La Force, opposite Met legend Karita Mattila as the First Prioress.
Find out more »Free Fun Friday: Acrobats of Cirque-tacular
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 young in spirit alike!…
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads an accomplished ensemble in Poulenc’s devastating modern masterpiece of faith and martyrdom. Isabel Leonard is the young Blanche de La Force, opposite Met legend Karita Mattila as the First Prioress.
Find out more »The Sting (1973)
Paul Newman and Robert Redford play grifters in the ultimate con, The Sting. This classic crime movie is lauded for its filmmaking, earning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay among its seven wins at the Oscars.
Find out more »Bolshoi Ballet in HD: Carmen Suite / Petrushka
Carmen is as sensual and free-spirited as ever as she finds herself caught in a love triangle. The passionate one act ballet by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, originally conceived for legendary Bolshoi prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, will captivate audiences alongside Petrushka, a new creation for the Bolshoi by contemporary choreographer Edward Clug. The double-bill event for cinemas encapsulates and showcases the soul of Russian Ballet.
Find out more »Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A jaded couple pursues a procedure to erase each other from their memories. Already a cult classic, the film employs elements of sci-fi, romantic comedy and drama, and won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Charlie Kaufman’s innovative script. Michel Gondry directs the ensemble cast of Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, and Tom Wilkinson.
Find out more »June 2019
GALA: Like Father-in-Law, Like Son-in-Law: Antonin Dvořák and Josef Suk
Nationalist composer Dvořák rose to fame in Prague, paving the way for his favorite student and later son-in-law Josef Suk. There was great closeness and spiritual kinship between them, andboth were championed by Brahms (who confessed to envying Dvořák his melodic gifts!). Dvořák’s Rondo and Suk’s Balada and Pisen Lasky love song are rarely performed gems, and the more familiar Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major by Dvořák is acknowledged as one of the masterpieces in the form, along…
Find out more »Boston Early Music Festival presents Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
The GRAMMY Award–winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production inspired by the splendor of Versailles. King Louis XIV transformed his father’s pastoral hunting lodge at Versailles into a lavish palace that served as the seat of government and culture in France. Enjoy a musical feast from the height of the Sun King’s reign with two chamber operas—Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles—exalting the splendor and majesty of…
Find out more »Boston Early Music Festival presents Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Mahaiwe Member Discounts do not apply for this performance. The GRAMMY Award–winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production inspired by the splendor of Versailles. King Louis XIV transformed his father’s pastoral hunting lodge at Versailles into a lavish palace that served as the seat of government and culture in France. Enjoy a musical feast from the height of the Sun King’s reign with two chamber operas—Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande’s…
Find out more »Boston Early Music Festival presents Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Mahaiwe Member Discounts do not apply for this performance. The GRAMMY Award–winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production inspired by the splendor of Versailles. King Louis XIV transformed his father’s pastoral hunting lodge at Versailles into a lavish palace that served as the seat of government and culture in France. Enjoy a musical feast from the height of the Sun King’s reign with two chamber operas—Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande’s…
Find out more »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 »London’s National Theatre in HD: The Audience
Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren (The Queen), plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Tony Award-winning production of The Audience. Captured live from London’s West End in 2013, the original broadcast returns to international cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday.
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 »London’s National Theatre in HD: The Lehman Trilogy
The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening. Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons. On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and…
Find out more »August 2019
Berkshire Playwrights Lab presents: Screenplay by Stalin
Mahaiwe Member Discounts do not apply for this performance. Screenplay by Stalin, a staged reading of a new play written by Tom Fontana, directed by BPL Co-Artistic Director Joe Cacaci.
Find out more »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. Opening night will consist of three pieces: Syzygy (1987) Dancers hurtle across the stage like so many celestial bodies orbiting and eclipsing each other.
Find out more »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. Opening night will consist of three pieces: Syzygy (1987) Dancers hurtle across the stage like so many celestial bodies orbiting and eclipsing each other.
Find out more »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. Opening night will consist of three pieces: Syzygy (1987) Dancers hurtle across the stage like so many celestial bodies orbiting and eclipsing each other.
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 »Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s Turandot (Encore)
Franco Zeffirelli’s spectacular production returns to cinemas, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, conducting his first Puccini opera with the company. Powerhouse soprano Christine Goerke takes on the icy title princess, alongside tenor Roberto Aronica as the unknown prince vying for her love.
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
The Whales of August (1987)
Widowed sisters Libby Strong (Bette Davis) and Sarah Webber (Lillian Gish) reflect on the passage of time, their relationship over the years, and life itself during a summer vacation on Maine’s Cliff Island.
Find out more »Jezebel (1938)
Bette Davis plays Julie Marsden, an individualistic woman whose engagement with Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda) comes into question in this 1938 romantic drama by William Wyler.
Find out more »Scott Eyerly’s Pre-Broadcast Opera Lecture: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. Eyerly`s fresh approach to opera and classical music has attracted a growing audience. His popular lecture series at the Mahaiwe and his sold-out courses at The Juilliard School`s Evening Division are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Bravo Circle Members / Met members: Thursday, July 11 at noon Mahaiwe Members: Tuesday, July 16 at noon General Public: Wednesday, July 17 at noon $25 adults / $10 everyone 21 and under Anthony Minghella’s vividly cinematic staging returns to cinemas, featuring soprano Hui He in the devastating title role. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts one of opera’s most beautiful and heartbreaking scores, with a cast that also includes tenor Piero Pretti as Pinkerton, baritone Paulo Szot as Sharpless, and mezzo-soprano…
Find out more »Bolshoi Ballet in HD: Raymonda
Raymonda is betrothed to Jean de Brienne, a gallant knight who pledged to go on a crusade led by the King of Hungary. When her beloved leaves, Abderakhman, a foreign knight, makes a bid for the hand of Raymonda and threatens her fate when she rejects him. Raymonda is a must-see of the Bolshoi, a work of living dance history showcasing the ballerina as the ultimate virtuoso. Being one of legendary choreographer Marius Petipa’s final works, he fully armed this…
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (Encore)
Anthony Minghella’s vividly cinematic staging returns to cinemas, featuring soprano Hui He in the devastating title role. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts one of opera’s most beautiful and heartbreaking scores, with a cast that also includes tenor Piero Pretti as Pinkerton, baritone Paulo Szot as Sharpless, and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong as Suzuki.
Find out more »What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford star in Robert Aldrich’s revered psychological thriller about two rivaling sisters whose fates twist and turn.
Find out more »Bolshoi Ballet in HD: Le Corsaire
On the bazaar square of Andrinopolis, the Pacha is struck by the beauty of Medora and tries to buy her, but the lovely young woman is not for sale. As the transaction is about to be completed, Medora is kidnaped by Conrad, a charming corsair (pirate) who catches her eye. Bolshoi Prima Ballerina, the “mesmerizing” Ekaterina Krysanova and Leading Soloist Igor Tsvirko ignite Medora and Conrad’s passion with undeniable intensity. (The Guardian) Le Corsaire remains a breath-taking production reworked by…
Find out more »Hip Hop Theatre with Open Thought Productions
This special performance will be the culmination of a four day school residency featuring students from Monument Valley, Mt. Everett and Herberg Schools performing with the professional dancers from Open Thought Productions. Using music, dance, FreeStyle, Hip Hop and improvisational theater, the evening's script will draw from the stories of the student participants, transforming them into the art of the theater for an empowering and memorable evening.
Find out more »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 »Scott Eyerly’s Pre-Broadcast Opera Lecture: Glass’s Akhnaten
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly has won acclaim across a wide range of genres. Eyerly`s fresh approach to opera and classical music has attracted a growing audience. His popular lecture series at the Mahaiwe and his sold-out courses at The Juilliard School`s Evening Division are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.
Find out more »Met Opera Live in HD: Glass’s Akhnaten
Bravo Circle Members / Met members: Thursday, July 11 at noon Mahaiwe Members: Tuesday, July 16 at noon General Public: Wednesday, July 17 at noon
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!
Find out more »Close Encounters With Music: Great Strings – The Borromeo Quartet
Anton Arensky’s Quartet in A Minor for two cellos, a personal tribute to his beloved friend Tchaikovsky, is considered one of the finest Russian string quartets ever written, with the second movement being a set of variations on a Tchaikovsky theme. Meanwhile, in conversations across time, melodies ricochet from Beethoven to Arensky (as well as Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky) as Arensky paraphrases a celebratory Russian folksong associated with the coronation of the Tsar—used by Beethoven in his Quartet Op. 59…
Find out more »Selected Shorts for the Holidays
The hit public radio series Selected Shorts takes the stage at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center with an afternoon of festive stories filled with love, laughter, and nostalgia. The stories are mostly fiction, sometimes classic, sometimes new, and always performed by great actors from stage and screen. With performances by Teagle F. Bougere, Jane Curtin, James Naughton, and Parker Posey!
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