Past Events from July 10 – August 2 – The Berkshire Edge
Monday, July 14, 2025

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Joanne Borts: Lush & Hora

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United States

Joanne Borts is a veteran Broadway performer with deep Yiddish roots whose career has been the love child of theatricality, folk music, comedy, barbershop quartets, and social action. Her debut solo album, Lush & Hora, embraces a spectrum of contradictions told through a Yiddish lens of irreverent admiration, mischievous rebellion and maybe a little gossip. […]

$42 – $48

Where the Mountain Meets the Sea

Ancram Center for the Arts 1330 County Route 7, Ancram, NY, United States

Lyrical story-telling and live folk songs weave a tale of searching and longing, family and legacy. A Haitian man and his wife, expecting their first child, travel from Miami to California on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip. Years later, their gay son travels the same route in reverse. Does re-tracing the steps of those that come […]

$49

Stockbridge Sinfonia Summer Concert Series

Stockbridge Sinfonia, the Berkshires' longest running community orchestra, will perform a series of concerts, free and open to the public. Stockbridge Sinfonia is conducted by Tracy Wilson and has approximately 50 players ranging from age 12 to 85, from amateurs to semi professionals. The Sinfonia Wind Ensemble will perform Mozart's Gran Partita and Gounod's Petite […]

Free

Madame Mozart, the Lacrimosa

Daniel Arts Center Bard College at Simon's Rock 84 Alford Rd., Great Barrington, MA

Constanze Mozart, wife of the great composer, struggles mightily in the wake of his too-early death in 1791 — to feed her children, to survive her own shattering grief, and to secure her husband’s astonishing musical legacy by completing his great unfinished masterwork, the Requiem in D Minor. With the odds and the whole of […]

Music Mountain Summer Festival: Penderecki String Quartet & Paul Marleyn, Cello

Music Mountain 225 Music Mountain Road, Falls Village, CT, United States

Johannes BRAHMS String Quartet in B flat Major, Opus 67 Dinuk WIJERATNE A Letter from the Afterlife Franz SCHUBERT Cello Quintet in C Major, Opus 163, D. 956 Tickets: $30-65, Under 19 Free Musicmountain.org or 860-824-7126 for tickets and more information Location: Gordon Hall, Music Mountain 225 Music Mountain Road Falls Village, CT 06031

$30 – $65

Music Mountain Summer Festival: Penderecki String Quartet & Paul Marleyn, Cello

Music Mountain 225 Music Mountain Road, Falls Village, CT, United States

Johannes BRAHMS String Quartet in B flat Major, Opus 67 Dinuk WIJERATNE A Letter from the Afterlife Franz SCHUBERT Cello Quintet in C Major, Opus 163, D. 956 Tickets: $30-65, Under 19 Free Musicmountain.org or 860-824-7126 for tickets and more information Location: Gordon Hall, Music Mountain 225 Music Mountain Road Falls Village, CT 06031

$30 – $65

Mendelssohn’s String Quintet in A Major

Spa Little Theater 19 Roosevelt Drive, Saratoga Springs, New York

This program highlights the evolution of chamber music, beginning with Purcell’s Fantasia Upon One Note, a 17th-century marvel of counterpoint by the celebrated English composer, known for his innovations in sacred and secular music. Muffat’s “Passacaglia” from his Sonata in G Major for Strings follows, a dramatic Baroque piece by the Austrian composer who bridged […]

$45

We Live in Time

Images Cinema 50 Spring St, Williamstown, MA, United States

An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance. Starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.

$7 – $10

Walking with WXW (aka Sculpture Walk #1)

The Mount / Edith Wharton's Home 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Follow along as poets offer an exploration of The Mount’s grounds and selected works in the Sculpture At The Mount exhibition. Each of the three dates will offer a unique combination of poets and poems. Free. Walking shoes are advised. Rain or shine. In the case of rain, Walkin' with WordXWord will take place in […]

Free

Rhythmscape – a free, outdoor Summer Dance Series

Dunham Mall 100 North Street, Pittsfield, MA, United States

Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. has announced a new summer dance series titled “Rhythmscape” on Dunham Mall, select Sunday afternoons from 6 to 8 pm, June 1 – August 31. Dunham Mall can be located by entering 100 North Street on your GPS. Each session will highlight a different rhythm and instructor from our local community, reflecting […]

Free

The Great Yiddish-American Songbook, with Frank London’s Yinglish Orchestra & Singers

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St, Amherst, MA, United States

The Great Yiddish-American Songbook celebrates the joys of Yinglish, with English songs in Yiddish and Yiddish songs in English. Five of the best Yiddish singers sing the greatest hits (and the not-so-great hits) of the 20th century, from Ziggy Elman’s hit adaptation of the klezmer tune And the Angels Sing to Mickey Katz’s deranged macaronic […]

$58 – $64

Show-only tickets to the Mahaiwe’s 2025 Gala with Tony-winner Aaron Tveit

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

Aaron Tveit is a Tony-winning, American theatre, television, and film actor. Tveit earned a 74th Annual Tony Award leading the cast of the world premiere production of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.: A stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s critically acclaimed film, the Grammy-nominated show premiered on Broadway in the summer of 2019. Tveit also received an Outer Critics Circle […]

$75 – $150