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Be Careful What You Eat From These Local Massachusetts Locations
This advice is for my fellow Massachusetts friends and neighbors who enjoy the sport of fishing. If you're into it just for fun and you throw back anything you catch, that's fine. However, if you like to feed your family with what you catch, please keep reading. The Massachusetts Department...
Preview Auction Items Right Now
Summer is here and your opportunity for savings is just days away. That's right! Berkshire County's Great Radio Online Auction is coming. The online auction begins this Saturday, July 6 at 9 a.m. You can preview a list of auction items right here. Once again the auction is online for your convenience Just like last time, we have teamed up with our parent company’s auction site, called Seize the Deal.
Massachusetts Musician Celebrates 50 Years at Iconic Music Venue
There is so much to love about the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts in the summertime. Whether it's hiking one of the area's many beautiful trails like Mount Greylock or Monument Mountain, swimming in our natural bodies of water, checking out the county's variety of summer concert offerings, enjoying ice cream, or experiencing a North Adams SteepleCats game there is much to love about the Berkshires during the warm weather months.
Berkshire Humane Society Pet of the Week: Meet Wall-E
Every Wednesday at 8:30 we're joined by John Perreault, Executive Director of the Berkshire Humane Society to discuss all the happenings at their Barker Road facility, plus talk about their Pet of the Week. This week's Pet of the Week is Wall-E! This active boy is an approximately 8-month-old pit...
Williams College Museum of Art Launches Summer School Program Series
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — It’s time for summer school, WCMA style!. The Williams College Museum of Art will host a summer program series on three Tuesdays this July in the exhibition SO–IL \ WCMA: Building a New Museum. Visitors can learn about the plans for the new WCMA, get a behind-the-scenes look at what the museum has in store for the new building, and offer their own thoughts about the future of WCMA.
James Taylor's 50th year at Tanglewood remains an 'economic stimulus' for the Berkshires
One town in the Berkshires is expecting an extra 20,000 visitors this week for one reason: James Taylor. The legendary singer is marking the 50th anniversary of his July 4th concerts at Tanglewood. Every year, Taylor performs over two nights at the outdoor music venue in Lenox and the concerts...
BAAMS To Host Randy Brecker at Studio 9
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Acclaimed trumpet player Randy Brecker will perform a benefit concert for the Berkshires' Academy of Advanced Musical Studies (BAAMS) on July 6 at the Porches' Studio 9. Brecker is a 7 time Grammy-winning trumpet player who has recorded on hundreds of albums with a range...
Our Backstage Artist Portraits From Solid Sound 2024
Wilco’s eighth Solid Sound took over MASS MoCA in North Adams over the weekend, and you can read our recap of the festival here. We saw performances by acts like Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Water From Your Eyes, Soul Glo, Iris DeMent, Ratboys, and about a dozen permutations of Wilco if you factor in the band members’ side-projects and surprise collaborations. In between watching the sets and scoping the artwork, our photographer Emilio Herce caught up with some of the artists to snap backstage portraits. Check ’em out below.
Photos: Take a Look at Veanne Cox, Sean Bell, Matthew Hydzik, More in Mel Brooks'
Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, based on his 1974 film of the same name, is currently playing the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, through July 21. Presented by Berkshire Theatre Group, in association with Bay Street Theater and Geva Theatre Center, the musical is directed and choreographed by Gerry McIntyre based on Tony winner Susan Stroman's original work.
Williamstown Theatre Festival Adds Alex Edelman Stand-Up Set to Lineup, Announces Additional Season Creatives
Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) has announced a series of additions to its 2024 season, including three stand-up comedy performances, creative teams for various productions, the lineup for the Fridays@3 reading series, and more. Special Tony Award winner Alex Edelman will offer three performances of a new stand-up set on WTF's...
Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" Playing at The Colonial Theatre
Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein,” the musical comedy born from Mel Brooks’ comedic genius and brought to life by the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation “The Producers,” has descended upon The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield through July 21. Veanne Cox is playing Frau Blucher....
THEATER REVIEW: ‘Shake It Up: A Shakespeare Cabaret’ plays on Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Stage through July 7
Familiar Shakespeare scenes and sonnets flesh out this more-than-clever revue, a musical excursion through love and deception devised by actor and singer Jacob Ming-Trent. In a brilliant flash of inspiration, he has devised a 90-minute show that could—and should—run all summer instead of just one week. A company of 12 players fill the Tina Packer Stage at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox; they fill it with music, merriment, and love.
BITS & BYTES: U.S. premiere at PS21; Daniel Adam Maltz at Ventfort Hall; Tipsy Carol at The Foundry; Clark Art free admission; Fourth of July Pizza party at Gedney Farm; PCTV and WTBR-FM Pittsfield 4th of July Parade coverage; No BRTA bus for the holiday
PS21 presents the U.S. premiere of Tiago Rodrigues’ ‘Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists’. Chatham, N.Y.— On Friday, July 5th at 8 p.m. and Saturday, July 6th at 7 p.m., PS21 presents the U.S. premiere of National Theater of Portugal’s production of “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists,” a Festival d’Avignon Production. The U.S. premiere follows sold-out runs in Europe and Montreal.
PREVIEW: Free Beethoven lecture from Boston University Professor Jeremy Yudkin at Lenox Town Hall on July 5, at 2:30
Lenox — The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present an all-Beethoven program on Tanglewood’s opening night, Friday, July 5, with Gil Shaham performing Beethoven’s only violin concerto and Andris Nelsons leading the orchestra in the composer’s pathbreaking Symphony No. 3, “Eroica.” And on the same day, at 2:30 p.m., in the air-conditioned Lenox Town Hall, Boston University Professor of Music Jeremy Yudkin will share some little-known details about these pieces, details that will amaze you, amuse you, and markedly enhance your listening experience.
Shakespeare & Company Presents “The Comedy of Errors
LENOX, Mass. – William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors takes over Shakespeare & Company’s outdoor mainstage this summer, directed by Kate Kohler Amory July 13 through August 18 at the Arthur S. Waldstein Amphitheatre. The Bard’s fast-paced and farcical story of mistaken identities begins with two sets...
BITS & BYTES: Sonny Troupé at The Clark; Wanda Houston at Berkshire Botanical Garden; Lita Williams at Williams Inn; Mill Town’s Common Ground Festival; Marjorie Kaye and Carolyn Newberger at Future Lab(s); Stockbridge ‘Chimes & Family Day’; Stockbridge Bowl aquatic presentation
Clark Art Institute presents Sonny Troupé and Band. Williamstown— On Wednesday, July 10th at 6 p.m., The Clark Art Institute presents Sonny Troupé and Band, continuing their July outdoor concert series, which celebrates the French Caribbean with some of the best musicians from Guadeloupe and Haiti. Under...
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