Ghent Playhouse Presents $2,700 to the Columbia County EMS Education Program

[GHENT, NY] The Ghent Playhouse presented a check for $ 2700 to the Columbia County EMS Education program representative PJ Keeler on February 11th.  The donation resulted from a benefit reading of Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever earlier in January.  Ghent Playhouse Artistic Director Cathy Lee-Visscher, Roman Fever Producer Vivian Wachsberger…

Staged Reading of Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever” at Ghent Playhouse

Join us for a Staged Reading of Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever at Ghent Playhouse Benefits Columbia County EMS/Education Two Performances Only: Friday, January 10 at 4:00 PM & Saturday, January 11 at 2:00 PM For the third consecutive year, the Ghent Playhouse proudly presents a staged reading in support of…

The Mount Presents a Staged Reading Exploring Edith Wharton’s Bond with Louis Bromfield

The Mount Presents A Cultivated Friendship, A Staged Reading of a New Play Exploring Edith Wharton’s Unlikely Bond with Louis Bromfield The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home, will present A Cultivated Friendship, a staged reading that explores the complex relationship between Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield, on Wednesday, September 10 at 5:00 PM in the…

Benefit Performance of “The Village Cidiot” at The Mount

Lauren Letelier will perform THE VILLAGE CIDIOT at The Mount, on the historic Edith Wharton estate in Lenox MA, June 6 at 5:00pm.  In THE VILLAGE CIDIOT, a dyed-in-the-wool Manhattanite loses her big corporate job and moves, reluctantly, to a tiny upstate town where her city skills are no match…

WAM Theatre Announces Cast and Creative Team for “fragments of Outside”

LENOX, MA (June 25, 2024)— WAM Theatre is proud to announce an incredible ensemble of performers and designers who are collaborating to create the site-specific performance fragments of Outside. This special, one-time-only performance, conceived and directed by new Artistic Director GenĂ©e Coreno, is a celebration of WAM’s 15th Anniversary. It will be…

WAM Theatre’s 15th Anniversary Benefit to include “Fragments of Outside by new Artistic Director GenĂ©e Coreno 

LENOX, MA (June 12, 2024) — Join WAM Theatre at The Mount (Edith Wharton’s Home) on August 18, 2024 for a special 15th Anniversary Celebration featuring a one-night-only performance of Fragments of Outside, created and directed by WAM’s new Artistic Director GenĂ©e Coreno. Heralding the arrival of WAM’s new Artistic Director, Fragments of Outside both…

Berkshire Opera Festival Announces 2024 Season

This spring, BOF proudly presents the first workshop performanceof a brand new opera from the Pulitzer Prize-winning composerof The Central Park Five and X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X: THE REEF April 10Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, New York CityA new opera (Act 1) by composer Anthony DavisLibretto by Joan Ross SorkinAdapted from the…

Mahaiwe and The Mount Co-present Debbie Millman and Roxane Gay

Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center and The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home co-present a conversation with couple Debbie Millman and Roxane Gay about Millman’s new book Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People, on Sunday, May 15 at 4 p.m.  “As our existence grows more complex, the…