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July 2005

May 28 - October
Berkshire Scenic Railway
Lenox, MA
Tourist Trains
On Saturdays and Sundays through the end of October the museum's tourist excursion trains leave Lenox at 10 am and 2:15 pm for a 1-3/4 hour round trip to Stockbridge or 12:15pm departure for a 45 minute round trip to Lee. The caboose is added to the trips on Saturdays only.

June 20 - December 31
Bennington Museum
Bennington, VT
Enriching Our Lives: The Art and Innovation of the Hunt Family
Drawing works from the Hunt family archive of the Bennington Museum and loans from other institutions, this exhibition will explore the impact the Hunt family had on the state of Vermont and the art world at large. On view will be seldom-seen paintings by William Morris Hunt displayed with works by his brother Richard Morris Hunt, sister, mother, and nephew. In the Bennington Museum's Changing Exhibition Gallery.

June 24 - July 9
Berkshire Theater Festival
Stockbridge, MA - Main Stage
side by side by sondheim
Husbands and housewives, geishas and strippers, stewardesses, ingénues and chorus girls are masterfully linked together in a stunning series of hits by musical theatre's most brilliant composer, Stephen Sondheim. In tossing aside plot, and focusing instead on the sophistication, wit, insight and power that lie at the heart of these memorable songs from landmark Sondheim shows — Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, West Side Story, Gypsy —the play's narrator, pianists and singers reveal the man and the artistry behind what is nothing less than an American musical revolution. Recommended for children 8 years and older .

June 24-July 10
Hampshire Shakespeare Company
Amherst, MA
Shakespeare Under the Stars: Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar explores the volatile world of first century BC Roman politics that exploded after one of the most famous assassinations in history on the Ides of March. Shakespeare’s dramatization of these events is celebrated for its astute observations of the nature of political power. With supreme rhetorical skill, the brilliant politician Mark Antony turns a huge crowd of "friends, Romans, and countrymen" from vociferous approval of Caesar’s assassination to murderous fury against the conspirators, ensuring their ultimate downfall and putting Rome squarely on the path to imperial rule. 7PM

June 29 - July 3
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
Martha Graham Dance Company
In the Ted Shawn Theatre, the twenty-five members of the Martha Graham Dance Company interpret six decades of masterworks from this giant of modern dance, and as an unusual way of pointing out themes that may have influenced her development, bring a selection of rare early works by Graham, and by Ruth St. Denis and Pillow founder Ted Shawn, with whom Graham began her performing career as a member of Denishawn. Included in this illuminating, Pillow-exclusive event are Gnossiene (A Priest of Gnossos), a male solo piece from 1919 to a score by French musical pioneer Erik Satie, and Ruth St. Denis' spiritual signature work Incense. A broad selection of works by the company's legendary founder round out the program, including her sublime piece from 1981, Acts of Light; the piercing Errand into the Maze from 1947; El Penitente, from 1940; and the first opportunity in more than 75 years to see live Graham's newly-reconstructed 1926 work, Flute of Krishna. Graham company Artistic Directors Terese Capucilli, an alumna of The School at Jacob's Pillow, and Christine Dakin-two of Graham's most luminous principal dancers-honor the group's celebrated past and affirm that its future will be as solid as its history.

From Melbourne, Australia, Chunky Move brings their iconoclastic production Tense Dave to the Doris Duke Studio Theatre June 30-July 3. Called "a gale-force wind ripping through contemporary Australian dance" by The Australian, Chunky Move pairs passionate dance theatre with innovative staging to animate the inner life of protagonist Dave (who is tense), with startling and darkly humorous results. Set on a continually rotating stage, which adds a new layer to the piece with each pass, Tense Dave is unlike anything in either dance or theatre today. Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek founded the group in 1995, and since then has intrigued audiences around the world.

June 30 - July 10
The Theater Barn
New Lebanon, NY
Swingtime Canteen
Revisit the standards of the 1940's "Andrews Sister Style". Full of laughs and the gorgeous songs of yesteryear we all love to remember.

June 30 - July 16
Berkshire Theater Festival
Stockbridge, MA - Unicorn Theater
The Father
Strindberg's deep distrust and fear of women is nowhere more evident than in his play The Father, a psychologically riveting drama about marriage, obsession and insanity that recaptures the passion and grandeur of Greek tragedy. Captain Adolf may be retired from the wars, but no battle he has ever fought is as threatening as the Victorian contest of wills between he and his vicious, self-righteous wife Laura. Their struggle has spiraled out of control, compromise is unthinkable, only one of them will survive. A nightmarish precursor to Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Strindberg's The Father is an earlier, revelatory look at marriage and the endlessly fascinating, relentlessly brutal battle between the sexes. Anders Cato, who also directed the BTF Unicorn production of Strindberg's Miss Julie, will direct. Not recommended for children.

July 4 - October 15
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Little Women, Little Men: Folk Art Portraits of Children from the Fenimore Art Museum
This exhibition is part of "American Traditions," a collaboration of leading Berkshire County, Massachusetts, cultural institutions, and features a dozen paintings of children by American itinerant portrait artists, including Ammi Phillips, Erastus Salisbury Field, Joseph Whiting Stock, and William Matthew Prior, that were originally acquired by Stephen Clark, brother of Clark founder Sterling Clark. This exhibition was organized in conjunction with the Fenimore Art Museum of Cooperstown, New York.

July 6-10
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
Blueprint of a Lady
The fullness of Billie Holliday's spirit finds a conduit in performances by Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, joined by jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon, in the Ted Shawn Theatre. In this world premiere of Blueprint of a Lady, Brown sets his contemporary choreography to songs by Holliday, Freelon's original sung and spoken compositions, and video images by Robert Penn. With seven performing members, including Brown himself, Evidence has carved out a reputation for lush, physical, transcendent movement that shows the influence of both his African and American dance heritage. Having received commissions from Jacob's Pillow as well as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Philandanco, Brown, who last performed at the Pillow in 2002, once again shows how he has come to the forefront of choreographic innovation.

July 6 – 17
Williamstown Theater Festival
Main Stage
Williamstown, MA
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN
by Oscar Wilde, directed by Moisés Kaufman
Determined not to trust her husband when circumstances suggest he's been unfaithful, the effortlessly desirable Lady Margaret Windermere – modern, independent and deliciously free of self-doubt – resolves to leave him flat. But the true nature of her husband's relationship with the “other woman” is very different from what young Margaret assumes it to be. The play is Oscar Wilde's first comedy and, more than a century later, a provocative season-opener for WTF's 2005 season in the hands of cutting-edge director Moisés Kaufman.

July 7
Berkshire Opera Company
Great Barrington, MA
Rinaldo (semi-staged concert)
8 PM

July 7-10
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
Rennie Harris Puremovement
The electrifying Rennie Harris Puremovement takes over the Doris Duke Studio Theatre July 7-10. Harris gained renown for taking the idiom of hip-hop to new expressive heights with Rome and Jewels, a groundbreaking work based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, seen at the Pillow in 2000. This program features highlights from many of Harris' works, and brings together a cast of popping, locking legends. Harris is also Director of The School at Jacob's Pillow's 2005 program, Cultural Traditions: In the Presence of Hip-Hop, June 27-July 10.

July 9
Berkshire Opera Company
Great Barrington, MA
Rinaldo (semi-staged concert)
8 PM

July 9-10
The Berkshire Woodworkers Guild
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Stockbridge, MA
Sixth Annual Show and Sale, with Silent Auction
Over thirty Guild members will show a variety of woodwork, including furniture, cabinets, turnings, boats, musical instruments, and sculpture. Members also contribute to a silent auction for the benefit of the Guild’s educational fund, named for Guild cabinetmaker Tarn Peters, who died in late 2002 after a long illness. 10AM - 5PM. Admission $2.00

July 10 - 15
Brandeis in the Berkshires
Cranwell, Lenox, MA
Patterns and Paradoxes: Challenges of an Emerging State
Moderated by Ilan Troen, Stoll Chair in Israel Studies at Brandeis, and Shlomo Avineri, Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science at Hebrew University, the institute will examine Israel as a nation uniquely located between the East and the West and try to understand what it means to live in a warfare state.

July 11
Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
Stockbridge, MA
Snow White
The Robbins-Zust Marionettes have been delighting audiences since their opening on Shakespeare's birthday in 1971. They have performed their classic tales with their hand-crafted puppets and live music for thousands of children of all ages. $4 - 11 am and 2 pm

Berkshire Opera Company
Great Barrington, MA
Rinaldo (semi-staged concert)
2 PM

July 12
Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
Stockbridge, MA
Rumplestiltskin
The Robbins-Zust Marionettes have been delighting audiences since their opening on Shakespeare's birthday in 1971. They have performed their classic tales with their hand-crafted puppets and live music for thousands of children of all ages. $4 - 11 am and 2 pm

July 12 - 23
Berkshire Theater Festival
Stockbridge, MA - Main Stage
equus
Alan Strang seems normal— a good, obedient son who loves horses. Then one night, for some mysterious reason, he blinds six of them. What drove him to it? His life seems routine, his parents loving, his pursuits harmless, and yet, Alan Strang has been committed to a mental hospital, an unresponsive patient who answers questions by singing ditties from television commercials, and is awakened each night by terrible nightmares. Only psychiatrist Martin Dysart, who is himself caught in the no man's land between darkness and light, seems able to grasp the answer to Alan's shocking, psychological puzzle. Nudity/adult themes. Not recommended for children.

July 13
Berkshire Opera Company
Williamstown, MA
Rinaldo (semi-staged concert)
8 PM

July 13-17
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
Alonzo King's LINES Ballet
Called an ambassador of "the most sophisticated modernism in classical dance" by The Los Angeles Times, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet comes to the Ted Shawn Theatre July 13-17. Recognized for his eclectic choices in music and costuming, San Francisco's King unleashes nine gifted and dynamic movers in any dance genre on two pieces: Who Dressed You Like a Foreigner?, a signature work, including a percussive score from classical Indian composer Zakir Hussain; and Before the Blues, featuring songs selected, played, or composed by the inimitable Pharaoh Sanders, alongside video projections by Axel Morgenthaler.

July 13 - 24
Williamstown Theater Festival
Nikos Stage
Williamstown, MA
CREATE FATE by Etan Frankel, directed by TBD
Nathan Penney has lots of everything. A bank account worth millions, a super-sized waistline, a multitude of vintage muscle cars. So why shouldn't he hire a private eye to get him some sugar and spice that's extra nice? Why shouldn't Nathan Penney go out and buy himself the love of his life, the girl of his dreams? Why shouldn't Nathan Penney, master of his domain, create his own fate?

July 14
Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
Stockbridge, MA
Peter and the Wolf
The Robbins-Zust Marionettes have been delighting audiences since their opening on Shakespeare's birthday in 1971. They have performed their classic tales with their hand-crafted puppets and live music for thousands of children of all ages. $4 - 11 am and 2 pm

July 14-17
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
Ben Munisteri Dance Projects
Ben Munisteri Dance Projects brings his style of contemporary modern dance to the Doris Duke Studio Theatre July 14-17. The New York Times wrote, "Ben Munisteri certainly must have fun putting dance steps together," and these performances are sure to confirm the buzz that has been gathering around this New York choreographer, who last presented his work at the Pillow on the Inside/Out stage in 2002. The Pillow co-commissions and presents the world premiere of Thunderblood, set to music by composer Evren Celimli, who will perform live. Celimli, from Lowell, Massachusetts, is internationally recognized for his scores to commercials, avant-garde theatrical pieces, and works by choreographers, including Seán Curran. Other works on the program include Not Human, an intriguing mix of dance and musical collage.

July 14 - 24
The Theater Barn
New Lebanon, NY
The Rats and The Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage
Agatha Christie's classic "whodunit" finds two suspects "trapped like rats" paired with a delicious parody written in her high style by the delectable David Ives.

July 15-24
Hampshire Shakespeare Company
Amherst, MA
Shakespeare Under the Stars: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream provides the vessel for mixing up a host of delicious ingredients to make one fantastic evening’s entertaining concoction. Take two sets of young lovers, throw in a pair of quarreling fairy royalty, add a dash of rude mechanicals, and top off with a king determined to tame an Amazon, and the result is a true theatrical gourmet’s delight. The mischievous Puck is none other than Kelsey Flynn, radio host of the morning show on 93.9 FM – The River. Local favorite Tom McCabe joins Hampshire Shakespeare for the first time as Bottom. Tary Coppola, featured last year in The Merchant of Venice, portrays the fairy queen Titania, while Steve Angel plays her consort, the fairy king Oberon. 7PM

July 18
Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
Stockbridge, MA
Beauty and the Beast
The Robbins-Zust Marionettes have been delighting audiences since their opening on Shakespeare's birthday in 1971. They have performed their classic tales with their hand-crafted puppets and live music for thousands of children of all ages. $4 - 11 am and 2 pm

July 19
Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
Stockbridge, MA
Hansel and Gretel
The Robbins-Zust Marionettes have been delighting audiences since their opening on Shakespeare's birthday in 1971. They have performed their classic tales with their hand-crafted puppets and live music for thousands of children of all ages. $4 - 11 am and 2 pm

July 20-24
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
Garth Fagan Dance
Trailblazers of inventive dynamics, the members of Garth Fagan Dance come to the Ted Shawn Theatre July 20-24. Jamaican-born Fagan, best known as the choreographer of The Lion King, founded his company in Rochester, New York in 1970 and first brought his dancers to the Pillow in 1974. The company has since performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and PBS' Great Performances, and received worldwide commendations for dances-and dancers-that move like nothing else on the stage today. On the program is "_ _ _ _ ing," a captivating exploration of Johannes Brahms' "Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B minor," utilizing modern movements and unexpected rhythms in illuminating contrast to the composer's spare romanticism; and DANCECOLLAGEFORROMIE, Fagan's homage to the life and work of his close friend, visual artist Romare Bearden. $10 Youth Tickets are available for the Saturday matinée.

July 20 - 31
Williamstown Theater Festival
Main Stage
Williamstown, MA
TOP GIRLS by Caryl Churchill, directed by Jo Bonney
What kind of a victory is women's progress in the workplace? Or is it a victory at all? At a dinner party celebrating Marlene's promotion, five women, superstars of the golden ages of history, literature and art, weigh in on the personal sacrifices a woman makes to achieve success. More potent now than ever, Top Girls is the play that established Caryl Churchill as one of the late 20th century's truly important – and prescient – playwrights.

July 20 - August 6
Berkshire Theater Festival
Stockbridge, MA - Unicorn Theater
Rat in the Skull
Secrets fester in a British interrogation cell where two enemies separated by a hatred sharpened through the centuries and honed by relentless violence and misunderstanding, face off against one another in a deadly game of truth and consequences. There are more than the usual Irish “troubles” simmering between the captured IRA terrorist and his tormentor, a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary who seems driven by a different set of devils entirely. Playwright Ron Hutchinson’s suspenseful thriller explores with a rare compassion and dark humor what happens when the blind ideals of patriotism and the ruthless politics of faith collide behind a locked door in an enemy state. Adult themes/strong language. Not recommended for children.

July 21
Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
Stockbridge, MA
Three Little Pigs
The Robbins-Zust Marionettes have been delighting audiences since their opening on Shakespeare's birthday in 1971. They have performed their classic tales with their hand-crafted puppets and live music for thousands of children of all ages. $4 - 11 am and 2 pm

July 21-24
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
A Poc A Poc
In the Doris Duke Studio Theatre from July 21-24, A Poc A Poc, a finely-tuned, stylish troupe founded in Barcelona in 2003 and based in Mexico City, makes their U.S. debut at the Pillow. The company, whose name means "little by little" in Catalan, has already wowed audiences throughout Germany, Cuba, France and South America with its four classically-trained dancers in non-classical, highly sensual works. Artistic Director Jaime Camarena, an alumnus of Spain's renowned Insitut del Teatre de Barcelona, has won awards in European choreography competitions for combining unusual scenography with intelligent manipulations of the human body. The program includes Cópula Negra, a stunning piece performed with the aid of nets strung above the stage.

July 21 - 24
Brandeis in the Berkshires
Cranwell, Lenox, MA
Profits and Principles: Leadership in a Global Age
Moderated by Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, professor at the Brandeis International Business School, the institute will explore the globalization of business and the principles that should guide us in a global economy.

July 22 - 28
Images Cinema
Williamstown, MA
March of the Penguins
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS documents a year in the life of an Empire penguin flock as they make their amazing journey across Antarctica, through conditions so inhospitable, no other forms of life are supported during that time of year. Every major life experience is invoked, from birth to death, comedy to tragedy, love to survival.
7PM and 9PM (no 7PM show Wednesday). Matinees: 4:30PM on Saturday, Sunday & Wednesday.

July 24
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Clark Through the Decades Family Day
The Clark celebrates 50 years of art in nature with a day of fun activities looking back at the past five decades and into the future. This free fun-for-all-ages event will be held both indoors and outdoors on the Clark campus from Admission to the galleries will also be free on this day. For more information, call 413-458-2303 - 11AM to 4PM

July 25
Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
Stockbridge, MA
Goldilocks/Peter Rabbit
The Robbins-Zust Marionettes have been delighting audiences since their opening on Shakespeare's birthday in 1971. They have performed their classic tales with their hand-crafted puppets and live music for thousands of children of all ages. $4 - 11 am and 2 pm.

Berkshire Opera Company
Great Barrington, MA
The Old Maid and the Thief & L'Heure Espagnole
8 PM

July 26
Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
Stockbridge, MA
Aladdin
The Robbins-Zust Marionettes have been delighting audiences since their opening on Shakespeare's birthday in 1971. They have performed their classic tales with their hand-crafted puppets and live music for thousands of children of all ages. $4 - 11 am and 2 pm

July 26-31
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
Mark Morris Dance Group
the Mark Morris Dance Group returns to the Ted Shawn Theatre with the Pillow premiere of Rock of Ages, set to a live performance of Franz Schubert's quietly strong Piano Trio in E-flat. The piece captures the serenity of the music as Morris' dancers move through his characteristically inimitable formations. Since his first performance at the Pillow in 1982, Morris has become one of today's most renowned choreographers, continuing to create supremely musical pieces that display his inventive intellect and a classically modern world-view. Companies all around the globe perform his work and he has received commissions from San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre.

July 27
Berkshire Opera Company
Great Barrington, MA
The Old Maid and the Thief & L'Heure Espagnole
8 PM

July 27-31
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
ASzURe & Artists
Called "a fresh, arresting, and fascinating choreographer" by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Aszure Barton brings her New York-based company ASzURe & Artists to the Doris Duke Studio Theatre July 28-31. Canadian-born Barton founded ASzURe & Artists in 2002 and was the 2003 winner of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's prestigious National Choreographic Competition. Following a well-received performance on the Pillow's Inside/Out stage in the summer of 2004, the company returns with the celebrated Mais We, featuring buoyant music by Paul Simon. ASzURe & Artists comes to the Pillow fresh off their June residency at the new Baryshnikov Art Center in New York City, in collaboration with The Juilliard School.

July 27 - August 7
Williamstown Theater Festival
Nikos Stage
Williamstown, MA
THE SUGAR SYNDROME by Lucy Prebble, directed by Maria Mileaf
Seventeen-year-old Dani surfs internet chat rooms searching for someone who is honest and direct. What she finds is a man twice her age who thinks she is an eleven year-old boy. With richly textured writing and humor, it's Lucy Prebble's play that's honest and direct. And fierce. And devastatingly, disarmingly, disturbingly funny. The Sugar Syndrome contains adult subject matter and is intended for mature audiences.

July 28
Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes
Stockbridge, MA
The Firebird
The Robbins-Zust Marionettes have been delighting audiences since their opening on Shakespeare's birthday in 1971. They have performed their classic tales with their hand-crafted puppets and live music for thousands of children of all ages. $4 - 11 am and 2 pm

July 28 - August 7
The Theater Barn
New Lebanon, NY
Songs for a New World
Called the "heir apparent to Steven Sondheim",Jason Robert Brown, the composer-lyricist of the critically acclaimed Tony Award winning "Parade",has the whole theatre community talking about his blend of savvy showmanship and exciting contemporary sound.

July 28 - August 13
Berkshire Theater Festival
Stockbridge, MA - Main Stage
American Buffalo
When David Mamet’s American Buffalo opened in 1975, audiences reeled. Ripped from America’s raw underbelly, ripe with obscenities, the story of three friends in a world of lowlifes, American Buffalo changed the landscape of American drama. Mamet’s raging, hopeless characters—Donny, the ignorant owner of a junk store, Bobby, a spaced out drug addict, and Teacher, a dangerous bully—are hoping to lift valuable coins from a local dealer, but when you’re dumb, angry and paranoid, something is bound to go wrong. American Buffalo, which won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in 1976 for Best American play, may be a grim portrait of society’s disenfranchised, but scratch the surface, and you may be surprised at the human connection. Adult themes/strong language. Not recommended for children.

July 29
Berkshire Opera Company
Great Barrington, MA
The Old Maid and the Thief & L'Heure Espagnole
2 PM

July 29-31
Hampshire Shakespeare Company
Amherst, MA
Shakespeare Under the Stars: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Hampshire Shakespeare Young Company presents their own production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream under the direction of Benjamin Ware. As members of the Young Company, young actors (teens) are cast in smaller roles in the mainstage production and will then step into the principal roles for their own production. Additional young actors will join this company for one intensive week of rehearsal culminating in the fully produced weekend of performance. In addition to this program, a full schedule of Summer Theatre Workshops led by theatre professionals is offered for children from 5 through 17. 7PM

July 30
Berkshire Opera Company
Great Barrington, MA
The Old Maid and the Thief & L'Heure Espagnole
8 PM

Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
Community Day
On Saturday, July 30, 10am-1pm, Jacob's Pillow holds its annual free Community Day. This year the event centers around dance by and for the kid in all of us, comprising free dance performances on two outdoor stages, as well as fun activities, giveaways, and participatory dance opportunities for everyone. Performers include the Treehouse Shakers, a lively group of actors, dancers, and musicians; and the students of Belvoir Terrace, a performing and visual arts camp in the Berkshires. $10 Youth Tickets are available for ASzURe & Artists' performance at 2:15pm.

Foxhollow Estate
Lenox, MA
Mike Stern and Unfulfilled Desires
Jazz-rock guitar virtuoso Mike Stern and his band will
be making their debut appearance in the Berkshires, playing a benefit concert for local environmental and educational nonprofits: Northeast Sustainable Energy Association and Voices from the Edge speakers series - 7:30PM

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