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Tanglewood Summer Home of the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops. Performances begin June 24 and end Aug. 31 with the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. Box Office: 619-638-9289. Lawn tickets available at the gates. West Rd., Lenox www.bso.org Berkshire Choral Festival In Sheffield, five Sat. evening concerts featuring a chorus of over 200 voices accompanied by the Springfield Symphony in a perfect setting at the Berkshire School. Matchless ! 413-229-8526 Email:bcf@choralfest.org www.choralfest.org Berkshire Opera Company Presents fully and semi-staged operas in Gt. Barrington, Pittsfield and Williamstown, June – August. 413-442-9955 www.berkshireopera.org
Close Encounters with Music Spring, Fall and Winter concerts presented in a thematic context. Professional musicians in chamber music programs. Gt. Barrington. 800-843-778 www.cewmusic.orgBerkshire Lyric Theater In its 36th year, presenting classical and Broad-way musicals, training and performance opportunities fro singers. Robt. Blafield Artistic Director. 413-499-0258 www.berkshirelyric.org South Mountain Concerts One of America’s most distinguished centers for chamber music events. Wordl renowned quartets in 3:PM Sunday afternoon concerts, Sept. & Oct. Rt. 7 & 20, Pittsfield 413-442-2106 www.pittsfieldweb.com/culture Music Works Chamber Music performances from Fall through Spring. Concets in Richmond, Pittsfield, Lenox and Gt. Barrington. Mark Ludwig, Music Director. 413-698-2002 POB 199, Richmond, MA 01254. www.musicworksberkshires.org
Stockbridge Chamber Concerts Founded in 1975, July – August chamber music concerts held in Searles Castle, Gt. Barrington. E-mail: eahscc@hotmail.comAston Magna Festival Baroque and Early Romantic Period music performed in St. James Church, Gt. Barrington. 413-528-3595. Off-season 800-875-7156 www.astonmagnafestival.org
Berkshire Bach Society Presents professional choral and instrumental concerts of Baroque music year round. Also lectures, seminars and outreach programs to area schools. 413-528-9277 www.berkshirebach.org.
Mac-Haydn Theatre Professional musical theater in the round with over 300 past productions in Chatham, NY. Popular Children’s Theater Workshop. 518-392-9292 www.machaydntheatre.org
Shaker Mountain Performing Arts Festival A showcase for opera singers who arrive each summer to study and audition for roles in the six operas to be staged during July-August festival. 800-588-9757 www.shakermountainfestival.org
Robert M. Boland Theater, Kousevitsky Arts Center, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield.
Dance Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Internationally celebrated center for the dance - in all forms, presents the world’s greatest dancers and troupes. Founded in 1933 by Ted Shawn in this pastoral setting, it’s now on the the National Register of Historic Places. 413-637-1322. 358 George Carter Road, Becket, MA . www.jacobspillow.orgAlbany Berkshire Ballet Nationally recognized professional ballet company performing a large repertoire of classical and contemporary dance works in Albany and Pittsfield. 518-426-0660, 413-442-1307 www.berkshireballet.org Theater Berkshire Theatre Festival 75th Anniversary Season in Stockbridge, mid-June through August. Professional summer stock with a new version of Peter Pan beginning Aug 12. 413-298 5536 or 5576 www.berkshiretheatre.orgUnicorn Theatre / BTF Experimental part of the Berkshire Theatre Festival presents theatre-in-the-round productions, May–June. www.berkshiretheatre.org/unicorn.html.
Shakespeare & Company A theatrical campus, 2 indoor theatres plus tented outdoor stage with free plays on Saturdays at 10 AM and 6:PM. Many productions throughout the summer and fall with Troubadors, Morris dancers and Satyricons performing while you picnic. Kemble St., Lenox. www.shakespeare.org.
Barrington Stage Company Highly praised, award-winning productions. Main Stage June 25 through August. Stage II dedicated to emerging artists. Beerkshire School Road, Sheffield, MA. 528-8888 www.berkshirestageco.org.
Town Players of Pittsfield Bringing the Best of Broadway to the Berkshires since 1921. Three productions a year, fall, winter, spring, the Robert Boland Theater, Berkshire City College, Pittsfield. 413-443-9279. www.berkshire.net/townplayers.
Theater Barn, New Lebanon, NY Presenting Revues, Musicals and off- Broadway comedies in this their 20th Anniversary season. Eight productions, June 13 through October 12. 654 Rt. 20. 518-794-8989 www.theaterbarn.comWilliamstown Theatre Festival Founded in 1955, the WTF presents classic plays, premiers and revivals on its two stages from late June through Late August each summer. Many famous alumni. 413-458-3200 www.wtfestival.org.
The News in Review Emmy-winning satirical troupe presents all-new topical revue skeweringthe people and places in the news, nightly, July – August. 413-637-1364 Located at Cranwell Resort, Rt. 20, Lenox, MA www.newsinrevue.com
Cinema The Triplex Cinema Theater First-run and art movie theater with three screens. 70 Railroad St., Gt. Barrington. 413-528-8885 www.thetriplex.com
Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema The museum’s movie theater screens the finest US and foreign films, nightly May – Sept. 8 :PM. 39 South St., Pittsfield. www.berkshiremuseum.org
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