Berkshires culture and entertainment.

Tickets for James Taylor’s July 3 and July4, 2008 concerts at Tanglewood go on sale to the public on Sunday, February 3. Both concerts will begin at 7pm in the Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA.
Tickets may be purchased online through the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s website at www.tanglewood.org (beginning at 8 a.m. on February 3). You [...]

Stockbridge, MA – Berkshire Theatre Festival’s 2008 season schedule was announced by Artistic Director Kate Maguire at a press luncheon at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge on January 31.
“The 80th anniversary gives us the opportunity to celebrate some of the greatest writing of western theatre. Over the past dozen years, we have developed a [...]

“Trumbo”, the Off-Broadway hit from 2003-04 theatre season, will be the opening production of the Barrington Stage Company’s 2008 season in Pittsfield. Julianne Boyd will direct Thom Christopher and Brian Hutchison in the story about Dalton Trumbo, the screenwriter who was one of the Hollywood Ten, the group of film professionals called to testify in [...]

Conductor Keith Lockhart announces the 2008 Boston Pops High School Sing-Off competition

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute recently acquired sixteen drawings by the great seventeenth-century French landscape artist Claude Lorrain. This acquisition makes the Clark holder of one of the most important collections of Claude Lorrain drawings outside of Europe. The focused exhibition Claude Lorrain: New Acquisitions, on view January 19 through April 20, marks [...]

Interfaith celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday will take place at the First Congregational Church in Great Barrington on Monday, January 21 at 12:00 noon. The Southern Berkshire Clergy Association, assisted by the Interfaith Committee of Southern Berkshire, is sponsoring the service for the ninth consecutive year.
This year, the interfaith [...]

Kicking off its first year-long U.S. and international tour, Trey McIntyre Project brings a fresh and intriguing program to the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow, August 20 – 24, 2008 including a world premiere with a score by renowned American folk musician, Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary. Dubbed “one of ballet’s [...]

Rev up your magic carpet and head to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute for an evening of music and dancing, exotic snacks and drinks, out-of-the-ordinary activities, and late-night encounters with art, as a new season of Clark After Dark kicks off on Friday, January 25 with The Sultan’s Palace. Held 8 pm to [...]

UPDATE: As announced in the New York Times on Wed. Jan. 9, Mr. De Montebello is retiring from the the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the end of the year.

Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will present the lecture “Museums, Why Should We Care?” on Wednesday, January 23, at 7 [...]

Calling all Theater, Dance and multi-media performance artists!
Don’t miss your window of opportunity. Apply now for The Berkshire Fringe 2008 summer season. The February 1 deadline is approaching fast, so download the application today and get started.
The 2008 Berkshire Fringe will feature dynamic new works of theater, dance and multi-media performance. The fourth annual [...]