Great Barrington, Mass.—Tony Award-winning Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell will headline the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center’s annual gala on Saturday, July 15. The performance will mark Stokes’ Mahaiwe stage debut after a virtual appearance during the Mahaiwe’s digitally curated “Moving People, Moving Mountains” event in 2020. Stokes will perform with a trio — Tedd Firth on piano, Clint de Ganon on…
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will present performances from comedian Ryan Hamilton on June 17, jazz trumpeter Chris Botti on July 13, banjoist Béla Fleck with a full bluegrass band on August 4, and entertainers Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro in a cabaret show on August 11. The theater will announce more 2023 performances in the coming weeks and…
Equity starts with arts and culture workers being able to support themselves and their families. Passion is not a substitute for livable wages. But it is a common tale told by nonprofit employers, and employees too, as they try to make ends meet doing what they love. A collaboration of…
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-23 “Live in HD” season will open Saturday, October 22 at 1 p.m. with Cherubini’s Medea. The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will broadcast the production — and subsequent operas — on its big screen with state-of-the-art audio and visual technology. “Medea, a new production directed and designed by David McVicar, will be a great…
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center has added a variety of live and screened programming to its year-round schedule for the coming fall and winter seasons. Headlining acts Deer Tick on Friday, December 9, and Postmodern Jukebox on Friday, March 17, join previously-scheduled appearances by Pink Martini featuring China Forbes, Dirty Dozen Brass Band…
by Barbara Waldinger In the age of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, how is a director embarking on a production of one of the many versions of the Don Juan story to approach the lasciviousness of the main character? Beginning in the Middle Ages, across multiple genres and cultures…
On August 20, 23, and 26, Berkshire Opera Festival‘s 2022 season culminates with the summer’s most ambitious undertaking: a new staging by BOF co-founder Jonathon Loy of Mozart’s comedy-tragedy masterpiece DON GIOVANNI at the historic, intimate Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA. BOF Artistic Director and co-founder Brian Garman, called a “wizard” with complex scores by Bachtrack, conducts the Berkshire Opera…
Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center has added new live shows, Spanish-language film screenings, and other events this September and October to its year-round performing arts schedule. “The Mahaiwe never stops rolling and these additions to our fall calendar speak to the widely varied program typical of this theater,”…
