Passion Doesn’t Pay the Rent:Berkshire/Columbia Counties Pay Equity Project AnnouncesNew Cultural Sector Surveys and September 25th Pay Equity SummitSave the Date Entry- and mid-level arts and culture workers in this region struggle to put gas in their cars, find decent housing, access basic healthcare, feed their families, and as a…
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center and Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) are delighted to announce that the Mahaiwe is BOF’s new long-term home, through a multi-year residency. The Mahaiwe will present BOF’s mainstage production and other programming for the coming years, beginning with Gounod’s Faust this August 24, 27, and 30. The…
Great Barrington— For a second consecutive year, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is inviting participation in New York Theatre Workshop’s “Mind the Gap,” an intergenerational collaborative performance-making program from June 24th through June 28th. “Mind the Gap” is a free intergenerational theatre program in which youth [14-21] and elders [60+] interview each…
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…
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center appointed four new officers to its board of directors at the end of 2023. Peter J. Most Peter J. Most is a complex business litigator, starting his career at one of the four largest law firms in Los Angeles, Paul Hastings, and then…
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will present Waitress: The Musical, an HD broadcast, on Sunday, December 10 at 1 p.m. Waitress: The Musical brings the Tony-nominated, Broadway phenomenon to the big screen. Featuring composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles as Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town…
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center has appointed Natalia Bernal to the newly created staff position, Education & Community Engagement Manager.  “We could not be more delighted to be welcoming someone with so much multi-national education and arts experience in this new position,” says Executive Director Janis Martinson. “The Mahaiwe…
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will present Mind the Gap, a free, intergenerational performance facilitated by New York Theatre Workshop, on Friday, August 25 at 7 p.m.  The performance is a culmination of a week-long workshop at the Mahaiwe between local youth and seniors, working together to learn the power of storytelling and theatre.  The performance is free and open to the…
