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June 2005

May 27-June 2
Little Cinema
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield, MA
Millions
When a suitcase of cash falls out of the sky, it sets two brothers on the adventure of a lifetime that leads them to realize true wealth has nothing to do with money. A heartwarming story of faith, miracles…and lots of money - Screenings nightly at 8:00 pm; matinee Mondays at 2:00 pm

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.

May 28 - June 25
Berkshire Theater Festival
Stockbridge, MA - Unicorn Theater
I do! I do!
In this endearing story of a life framed by the musical highs and lows of a marriage made in roller coaster heaven, Michael and Agnes' I Do, I Dos are followed in quick succession by a series of life lessons: God is Love, Nobody's Perfect, The Honeymoon's Over and Love Isn't Everything. Nominated for seven Tony Awards, I Do, I Do is the classic American musical full of love, laughter and the inevitable bittersweetness of a life well lived. Recommended for children 8 years and older.

June 2
Aubergine Fine Food & Lodging
Hillsdale, NY
The Cheese Course
“The Cheese Course” will feature special guest Matthew Rubiner, an authority on artisinal cheeses and owner of Rubiner’s Cheesemongers and Grocers, in Great Barrington. (518) 325-3412 - $75/person - 10:30 AM

June 3-4
Berkshire Wildlife Sanctuaries
Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
Lenox, MA
Workshop: Five Steps to a Beautiful Natural Woodland
Monica Fadding of Marconica Inc. will present a free workshop, "Five Steps to a Beautiful Natural Woodland". Participants will learn to enhance special places on their property-a fallen log, large rock, etc.-by identifying and removing invasives and encouraging Berkshire wildflowers. Please sign up in advance (413) 637-0320 - 1PM

June 3-5
Berkshire Wildlife Sanctuaries
Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
Lenox, MA
Sixth Annual Native Plant Sale
The sale of nursery-grown wildflowers, ferns, trees, and shrubs will benefit programs at Pleasant Valley as well as Canoe Meadows in Pittsfield. Joseph Strauch, author of "Wildflowers of the Berkshire & Taconic Hills", will offer gardening recommendations and advice. More than seventy-five species of plants for all garden conditions are for sale, including wild ginger, lady's slipper, columbine, and fringed gentian. Admission to the sale is free and Mass Audubon members receive a 10% discount on their purchases. - 9AM to 4PM

June 3-9
Little Cinema
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield, MA
Look At Me
Four lives intersect in this compelling portrait of personal politics and entanglements. Portraying the complexity of life with rare honesty, this is the story of those who know perfectly what they would do in someone else's shoes, but don't do very well in their own. French with English subtitles - Screenings nightly at 8:00 pm; matinee Mondays at 2:00 pm

June 5
Berkshire Wildlife Sanctuaries
Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
Lenox, MA
Family Fun Day
Christyna Laubach, high school science teacher and author, will demonstrate bird banding from 10 am to noon, using mist nets to capture and release birds unharmed. At 11, storyteller Debby Cuthbert of the Lenox Library will present animal tales. Young gardeners are invited to plant their own Hummingbird Banquet Box with Monica Fadding at noon, using native plants available at the Sanctuaries' Sixth Annual Plant Sale. Participants may bring their own containers or purchase one. Tom Ricardi's Live Birds of Prey features hawks, owls, eagles, and others at 1 pm. A wildlife rehabilitator for more than thirty years, he will tell each bird's story and offer opportunities to view and touch these raptors. At 2 pm, young naturalists may examine Mystery Skulls with Jane Winn and Chris Erb. Guided walks around Pike's Pond, led by trained field guides, will begin at 10, 11, 2 and 3 pm. Snacks and lunch will be available. Admissions charge for Fun Day activities - 9AM to 4PM

June 9
Aubergine Fine Food & Lodging
Hillsdale, NY
Kitchen Hors d'oeuvre Party and Wine Pairing
Tony Avenia, proprietor of B&G Wine and Gourmet, in Hillsdale, will join the class, bottles in hand, for a “Kitchen Hors d’oeuvre Party and Wine Pairing.” “The Cheese Course” will feature special guest Matthew Rubiner, an authority on artisinal cheeses and owner of Rubiner’s Cheesemongers and Grocers, in Great Barrington. (518) 325-3412 - $75/person - 10:30 AM

June 10-16
Little Cinema
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield, MA
Ladies in Lavender
After a violent storm, Janet (Maggie Smith) and Ursula Widdington (Judi Dench) awake to find a young man washed ashore and badly injured. Upon taking him in, the three embark on a journey they had never imagined as the two elderly sisters discover his true origins. - Screenings nightly at 8:00 pm; matinee Mondays at 2:00 pm

June 17 - 26
The Theater Barn
New Lebanon, NY
Over the River and Through the Woods
Joe DiPietro's hilarious family comedy about two sets of grandparents who connive to keep their favorite grandson well fed and close to the nest. Even funnier than his long-running musical revue I LOVE YOU, YOUR PERFECT, NOW CHANGE

June 18
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
Season Opening Gala
Gala performance in the Ted Shawn Theatre featuring Savion Glover, Ben Munisteri Dance Projects, and a world premiere set on dancers in the Ballet Program of The School at Jacob's Pillow by genre-breaking choreographer Margo Sappington (Oh, Calcutta!, Pal Joey). The festivities begin at 5pm with a cocktail reception and preview of a new exhibit by photographer Rose Eichenbaum, Masters of Movement: Portraits of America's Great Choreographers. The Gala continues with dinner under the tent on the Great Lawn, and concludes with a dance and dessert party after the performance, featuring live music by New York's Funkestra.

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 21-26
Jacob's Pillow
Becket, MA
Tap Legends
For a once-in-a-lifetime, Pillow-exclusive program in the Ted Shawn Theatre, Savion Glover assembles tap masters who have influenced his artistic development, legends Jimmy Slyde and Dianne Walker, along with his company of protégés. Walker and Slyde represent a generation of master tappers who preceded Glover in the pantheon of their art form. With a career stretching from his debut at age 12 in The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway to Sesame Street to The White House, Glover brings a program bound to appeal to dance lovers of all ages. The evening features a world-class jazz, funk, and R&B band.

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.