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Berkshire Museum schedule 2012

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Berkshire Museum schedule 2012

Berkshire Museum, founded by Zenas Crane in Pittsfield, MAPhoto: GNU Free Documentation License
Berkshire Museum, founded by Zenas Crane in Pittsfield, MA.

Berkshire Museum schedule for summer 2012 is highlighted by two new theatre programs in the Little Cinema: Berkshire Actors Theatre will stage two plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley, and then Disney’s Beauty and the Beast will be presented by Barrington Stage Company Youth Theatre. Featured exhibition this summer at Berkshire Museum is an exhibition of large-scale photographs by members of the Berkshire Museum Camera Club to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the group.

Berkshire Museum tickets contact information

  • 39 South Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201
  • 413-443-7171
  • Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;Sun. 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Closed Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day
  • berkshiremuseum.org

Berkshire Museum exhibition schedule

  • Berkshire Museum Camera Club 75th Anniversary Exhibition – June 14 – September 16, 2012
  • Liz Whitney Quisgard: Kaleidoscope – through Oct. 21, 2012
  • Taking Flight: Audubon and the World of Birds – January 21 – June 17, 2012
  • Bryan Nash Gill: Beyond the Landscape – January 14 – May 28, 2012
  • Morgan Bulkeley: Bird Story – January 21 through March 4, 2012
  • Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation – Ongoing
  • Alexander Calder: An Artist at Play – Ongoing
  • Clues to the Ancient World – Ongoing
  • Hudson River School – Ongoing
  • Native People – Ongoing
  • Berkshire Backyard – Ongoing
  • Dinosaurs & Paleontology – Ongoing
  • Rocks and Minerals – Ongoing
  • World of Miniatures – Ongoing
  • Aquarium – Ongoing

Berkshire Museum Little Cinema movies and events calendar

  • PechaKucha – June 14, at 7 p.m
  • First Position – 9, 10, 11 – 7:00 pm + 8:45 pm
  • Peter Grimes (Teatro alla Scala) – June 10 – 2:00 pm + 5:00 pm
  • Berkshire Actors Theatre presents Doubt and Four Dogs and a Bone – June 21, 2012 – July 15, 2012
  • Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, by Barrington Stage Company Youth Theatre – July 25, 2012 – August 12, 2012

Herman Melville’s Arrowhead 2012 summer schedule

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Herman Melville’s Arrowhead 2012 summer schedule

On the schedule at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead, through Labor Day 2012, are special programs, The Melville Trail and Call Me Melville. Herman Melville lived at Arrowhead for the twelve most productive years of his life, writing Moby-Dick, Pierre, The Confidence-Man, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, and such short stories as “I and My Chimney,” “Benito Cereno,” “Bartleby the Scrivener,” and “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.” 

Herman Melville's Arrowhead 2012 summer schedule features two special programs
Herman Melville lived in Pittsfield at Arrowhead

The Melville Trail

The Melville Trail is a self-guided tour of a dozen sites in Berkshire County which influenced the life and writing of one of America’s most treasured authors, Herman Melville. Despite only living at his Arrowhead home for 12 years, Melville’s most prolific period of writing occured here in Berkshire County, surrounded by the natural beauty of the Berkshire Hills and friends such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes and others.

Call Me Melville

Call Me Melville is a county-wide celebration of all things Melville. Whether it is the view outside of Melville’s Arrowhead study, or Park Square in Pittsfield, the area had a profound effect on the author and his writing. Visit Cultural Pittsfield’s website for more information on this summer’s array of events.

Contact Herman Melville’s Arrowhead

  • 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA 01201 | 413-442-1793 | mobydick.org
  • Open Daily Memorial Day Weekend to Columbus Day, 9:30 – 5:00;Tours Hourly From 10-4

Williamstown Theatre Festival 2012 summer schedule

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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2012 schedule

The 2012 summer season at Williamstown Theatre Festival opens on June 26 with The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde. The WTF 2012 schedule includes a Preview Production of the new musical Far From Heaven, and a new translation of Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country on the Main Stage.

Nikos Stage calendar and David Byrne play at MASS MoCA

Events scheduled for the Nikos Stage include The Blue Deep, by Lucy Boyle, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, by Neil Simon, The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance and Katori Hall’s WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!. Anothe highlight of the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival schedule is the special workshop production at nearby MASS MoCa of Here Lies Love, by David Byrne, whose other work includes rock band the Talking Heads.

Plays on the WTF Main Stage

The Importance of Being Earnest

  • By Oscar Wilde
  • Directed by David Hyde Pierce
  • June 26 – July 14, 2012

Far From Heaven

  • Book by Richard Greenberg
  • Music by Scott Frankel
  • Lyrics by Michael Korie
  • Directed by Michael Greif
  • July 19 – 29, 2012

A Month in the Country

  • By Ivan Turgenev
  • Translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
  • Directed by Richard Nelson
  • August 1 – 19, 2012

Williamstown Theatre Festival contact info.

  • 1000 Main St. – Rt. 2
  • Williamstown, MA 01267
  • Box office – 413-597-3400
  • web: wtfestival.org

Plays on the WTF Nikos Stage

The Blue Deep

  • By Lucy Boyle
  • Directed by Bob Balaban
  • June 27 – July 8, 2012

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

  • By Neil Simon
  • Directed by Jessica Stone
  • July 11 – 22, 2012

The Elephant Man

  • By Bernard Pomerance
  • Directed by Scott Ellis
  • July 25 – August 5, 2012

WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!

  • By Katori Hall
  • Directed by May Adrales
  • August 8 – 19, 2012

WTF Productions AT MASS MOCA

Here Lies Love

  • Written by David Byrne
  • Music by David Byrne & Fatboy Slim
  • Directed by Alex Timbers
  • June 21 – 24, 2012

Free theatre at WTF

At Poker Flats | The Valley of Fear

  • By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Adapted by Steve Lawson
  • Directed by Lila Neugebauer
  • July 11 – 14, July 20 – 27, 2012

MASS MoCA 2012 summer schedule

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MASS MoCA 2012 summer schedule

Sweet Honey in the Rock on MASS MoCA summer 2012 scheduleMASS MoCA occupies an industrial complex built between 1870-1900 by the Arnold Print Works, which produced printed textiles until becoming unprofitable during WWII. Then, the local Sprague Electric Company bought the property and manufactured capacitors and electrical components until competition forced it to close in 1985. (Photo info: Sweet Honey in the Rock, live at Ravinia; Photo: singitonline.)

MASS MoCA tickets contact information

  • 87 Marshall St.; North Adams, MA 01247
  • Fall, Winter, Spring Hours: 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. closed Tuesday
  • Phone: 413.MoCA.111
  • Web: massmoca.org

MASS MoCA exhibition calendar

  • Oh, Canada – May 26, 2012 through April 1, 2013
  • Invisible Cities = Apr 14, 2012–Feb 4, 2013
  • Making Room: The Space Between Two & Three Dimensions – Feb 25, 2012–Jan 2, 2013
  • Anna Betbeze: New Work – Feb 8–Nov 5, 2012
  • Sanford Biggers: The Cartographer’s Conundrum – Feb 4–Oct 30, 2012
  • Michael Oatman: All Utopias Fell – Open April 14 – November 4, 2012
  • Jane Philbrick: The Expanded Field – Open seasonally May through October
  • Stephen Vitiello: All Those Vanished Engines – Open April 14 – November 4, 2012
  • Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective – Ongoing
  • Don Gummer: Primary Separation – Ongoing

MASS MoCA performing arts events

  • The Jimmies in concert – Saturday, June 16, 2012
  • Here Lies Love – Thursday, June 21 – Sunday, June 24 – Hunter Center
  • Patrick Watson – Saturday, June 30, 2012
  • Movie at the Airport: Red Tails – Tuesday, July 3, 2012
  • Sweet Honey In The Rock – Saturday, July 7, 2012
  • Bang on a Can: 2012 Summer Music Festival = Thrs July 12 – Tues July 31, 2012
  • Bang on a Can: 2012 Kids Can Too – Saturday, July 14, 2012
  • Julia Easterlin – Saturday, July 14, 2012
  • Bang on a Can: 2012 All-Stars – Saturday, July 21, 2012
  • Bang on a Can: 2012 Marathon with Steve Reich – Saturday, July 28, 2012
  • Wilco Benefit Concert – Tuesday, July 31, 2012
  • Girl Walk / / All Day – Saturday, August 4, 2012
  • Real Estate – Thursday, August 9, 8 PM
  • 500 Clown: Trapped – Saturday, August 11, 2 & 7 PM
  • Ophira Eisenberg – Saturday, August 18, 2012
  • Nora Chipaumire: Miriam – Saturday, August 25, 2012
  • Roomful of Teeth featuring Missy Mazzoli – Friday, August 31, 2012
  • Brazilian Big Beat Dance Party with Nation Beat – Saturday, September 1, 2012
  • FreshGrass Bluegrass Festival 2012 – September 21- 23, 2012

Berkshire Actors Theatre summer 2012 schedule

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Berkshire Actors Theatre 2012 summer schedule

Berkshire Actors Theatre was founded in 2011 by Clover Bell-Devaney to produce “intimate character-driven plays using Berkshire-based professional talent to provide our audiences with a fresh and dynamic take on the best modern works of our time.” The company’s 2012 plays will be presented on the Little Cinema stage at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield.
Berkshire Actors Theatre summer 2012 poster
Berkshire Actors Theatre summer 2012 poster

DOUBT: A PARABLE

  • JUNE 21–JULY 14
  • by JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY
  • directed by BRAD BERRIDGE
  • featuring:Clover Bell-Devaney, Alika Hope, Patrick White, Peggy Pharr Wilson

FOUR DOGS AND A BONE

  • JULY 2–15
  • by JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY
  • directed by ANDREW VOLKOFF
  • featuring: Clover Bell-Devaney, Michael Foster, Deann Halper, Daniel Popowich

Berkshire Actors Theatre contact info.

Jacob’s Pillow 2012 summer schedule

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Jacob’s Pillow 2012 summer schedule

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival is the oldest and most popular summer dance festival in the United States. It was begun on a mountainside farm in Becket, Mass, which Ted Shawn bought in 1931, in the final dys of the Denishawn Company that he ran with his wife Ruth St. Denis. (Around the same time, Tanglewood was getting established some 30 miles to the west in Lenox, Mass.) Shawn, whose initial mission was to legitimize dance as a career for men, recruited eight students from nearby Springfield College and established a company called Ted Shawn and his Men Dancers. Their success led to the formation of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Committee in 1941 and then the Ted Shawn Theatre in 1942.

The Ted Shawn Theatre at night in 2006. Photo by Christopher Duggan
The Ted Shawn Theatre at night in 2006. Photo by Christopher Duggan

Ted Shawn Theatre 2012 schedule

80th Anniversary Season Opening Gala

June 16, 2012 – David Hallberg – Mimulus – CIRCA – Dancers of the Ballet Program

  • Mimulus – June 20-June 24, 2012
  • Morphoses – June 27-July 1, 2012
  • Vertigo Dance Company – July 4-July 8, 2012
  • Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen – July 11-July 15, 2012 – LIVE MUSIC
  • Hong Kong Ballet – July 18-July 22, 2012
  • Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company – July 25-July 29, 2012
  • Royal Winnipeg Ballet – August 1-August 5, 2012
  • Trey McIntyre Project – August 8-August 12, 2012
  • Compagnie Käfig – August 15-August 19, 2012
  • A Jazz Happening – August 19, 2012
  • The Joffrey Ballet – August 22-August 26, 2012

Doris Duke Theatre 2012 schedule

  • Circa – June 20-June 24, 2012
  • Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM – June 27-July 1, 2012
  • LeeSaar The Company – July 4-July 8, 2012
  • The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth – July 11-July 15, 2012
  • Luna Negra Dance Theater – July 18-July 22, 2012
  • Jessica Lang Dance – July 25-July 29, 2012
  • Jonah Bokaer & David Hallberg – August 1-August 5, 2012 – U.S. PREMIERE
  • Dance Heginbotham – August 8-August 12, 2012
  • Liz Gerring Dance Company – August 15-August 19, 2012
  • Doug Elkins and Friends’ Fräulein Maria – August 22-August 26, 2012

Contact info. and Directions to Jacob’s Pillow

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  • 358 George Carter Road
  • Becket, MA 01223
  • Phone: 413.243.9919
  • Web: jacobspillow.org