Arts & Entertainment

Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present its first play in the free Staged Reading Series on Wednesday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center.

This is not an easy book. There are thirteen such tales in total. The stories are riveting and sad and funny. They are also incredibly thoughtful and fair, accessible and smart.

“When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.”

By this babbling Berkshire brook/ideas would flow with heavenly Grace/pen to paper for eternity. Weep not angels for we listened to James.

Installment 32, the last chapter: “I ran down the street as soon as I heard the announcer on the radio. ‘John Lennon’s been shot as he was entering the Dakota,’” Hana continued. “There were hundreds of people in front of the gates, holding candles, playing guitars, singing.”

Pittsfield -- Barrington Stage Company will present Swingin' Gershwin with Eli & The Hot Six + Rebecca Sullivan on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, Monday, June...

Alecson teaches and lectures on death, dying, bereavement, and the ethics of healthcare, assisting professionals in understanding their patients' experiences.

The Close Encounters with Music Chamber Music Series is a living embodiment of all the right ways to present classical music.

Roz Chast’s uncompromising body of work brings wry humor and wit to some of our most profound everyday anxieties, brilliantly translating the mundane into rich, comical observations.

Oldcastle has a small hit on its hands and one worth exploring if you like people who are thick with importance without being important themselves.

Great Barrington -- On Saturday, June 13,  the little white church in Housatonic known as the Guthrie Center will celebrate a union activist killed...

How many times had he made the identical trip to the hotel? Every morning for nineteen years minus weekends, and returned back the same way, every evening, five times a week. 52 weeks. 4,940 times. Minus vacations, days off. 4,800. And this time was the last time. He exited at 60th Street and turned up Third Avenue.

I awoke on the morning of January 1, 2013 — New Year’s Day — with what one might consider an unusual question. "What can...

The Mahaiwe is poised to eliminate all of its debt, including the theater’s mortgage, and establish its first cash reserve fund. This will provide a level of fiscal stability that is quite extraordinary in an arts organization of its age and size.

The Mac-Haydn Company is presenting as fine a realization of this show as humanly possible and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. I don't even think a war could have stopped me from loving this one.

The blockbuster is going to be Van Gogh and Nature at the Clark (which runs from June 14 through September 13) and the people there are expecting so many visitors that they are even opening an extra café to cope. But this show is not just a crowd-pleaser. It brings together fifty of van Gogh’s pictures on loan from museums around the world.