Berkshire on Stage

Great Barrington— On Saturday, February 21st from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the Schumacher Center, Multicultural BRIDGE, BerkShares Local, the Du Bois Freedom Center, and the NAACP Berkshire County Branch present “W.E.B. Du Bois – An American Hero” at Monument Mountain Regional High School.  “W.E.B. Du Bois – An American Hero” celebrates W.E.B. Du Bois, the original trailblazer for…

Great Barrington, Mass.—The Berkshires/Columbia Counties Pay Equity Coalition will hold a FREE event on Wednesday, September 25, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center to release their second report showcasing progress made and remaining barriers, according to employers and workers themselves.  The Berkshire/Columbia County Pay Equity coalition is…

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…

What we learned. What you can do. What we can do together. To register for this free event go to:https://mahaiwe.org/event/berkshire-columbia-counties-pay-equity-project-data-release-recommendations/ Great Barrington, Mass.—Equity includes 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…

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…

Production is Part of the Week-long Dr. Yolande Du Bois Williams Irving Memorial LENOX, Mass. – As part of a week-long series of events commemorating the local legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois and his family, Multicultural BRIDGE and Shakespeare & Company will present a staged reading of Knock Me a Kiss by playwright Charles Smith…

by Barbara Waldinger Pipeline, Dominique Morisseau’s heartbreakingly beautiful, Obie Award-winning play, is currently being presented by WAM Theatre at Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre in a production directed by Dawn M. Simmons. The title of the play, which received its World Premiere in 2017 at Lincoln Center Theater,…

A Season of Expanded Programming and New Collaborations LENOX, MA (January 15, 2019) — Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven, Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston, and the WAM team are thrilled to announce expanded programming and new collaborations for their 10th anniversary season. “As we celebrate our first decade of the…