BerkshiresTanglewood Jazz Festival 2008 schedule and ticket information
The 2008 Tanglewood Jazz Festival will include an exclusive performance of Terrence Blanchard's Grammy award winning "A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)" with a 30 piece orchestra, NPR Jazz diva Marian McPartland's 90th Birthday celebration, and return visits by pianist Eliane Elias performing selections from "Something For You" A Tribute to Bill Evans, and Donal Fox performing Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project featuring Christian Scott.
Also performing at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival are The Edmar Castaneda Trio with Special Guest, Joe Locke, Dianne Reeves, The Eddie Daniels Quartet , and Mark O'Connor's "Hot Swing" with special guest Jane Monheit.
Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2008 schedule and ticket information.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2008 season schedule
Dance companies performing during the 2008 season at Jacob's Pillow will include:
- Aspen Santa Fe Ballet;
- Alonzo King's LINES Ballet;
- Ballet Boyz;
- Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company;
- Compagnie Heddy Maalem;
- Conny Janssen Danst;
- David Michalek's Slow Dancing;
- Garth Fagan Dance;
- Hofesh Shechter Company;
- Kate Weare Company;
- Keigwin + Company;
- Ko & Edge Company;
- Lar Lubovitch Dance Company;
- Maureen Fleming;
- Mimulus; Natural Dance Theatre;
- Shantala Shivalingappa;
- Stockholm 59° North;
- T.P.O. (Teatro d'Piazza d'Occasione);
- and Trey McIntyre Project.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2008 season schedule and ticket information.
Berkshire Theatre Festival 2008 season schedule
The 2008 season at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, the 80th for the oldest cutural institution in the Berkshires, will feature plays by several of the greatest playwrights, including George Bernard Shaw, Sameul Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee.
BTF's 2008 season will open with the same play that it opened with 80 years ago, Shaw's Candida, which will be directed by Anders Cato. One of the season's many highlights will be the performances of Richard Chamberlain and Jan Maxwell as George and Martha in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Berkshire Theatre Festival 2008 season schedule and ticket information.
Barrington Stage opens 2008 season with "Trumbo"
The 2008 theatre season in the Berkshires gets underway with Barrington Stage Co.'s production of "Trumbo," the Off-Broadway hit written by Christopher Trumbo about his father Dalton Trumbo, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter who was a member of the Hollywood Ten, sentenced to prison and blacklisted in 1947 for refusing to cooperate with Congress in it's investigation of Communism in the film indistry.
Barrington Stage Co.'s production of "Trumbo" - schedule and ticket information.
The Berkshires of New England
Few regions are home to as broad an array of cultural attractions and natural beauty as is the Berkshires of New England, an area of some 1,000 square miles in western Massachusetts extending into Vermont, New York state, and Connecticut.
Here you can find a wealth of information and resources for people planning to visit or vacation in the Berkshires. In addition to accessing schedules for Berkshires concerts, plays, art exhibitions, and other entertainment news, you can also make lodging reservations at Berkshire county hotels, inns, bed and breakfasts, and motels and apply for or list Berkshire jobs.
2008 Tanglewood season schedule
The 2008 Tanglewood schedule has been announced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The 2008 season, Maestro James Levine's fourth as Music director, features Berlioz' opera Les Troyens performed in two parts July 5 and 6, all-Mozart and all-Beethoven weekends, eight of the world's favorite violinists, plus the returns of popular programs with the Mark Morris Dance Group, A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, and two James Taylor concerts.
Read more: 2008 Tanglewood schedule.