Saturday September 1, 2001
MASS MoCA
Dance Parties - Calypso Soca Meltdown
CONCERT COURTYARD D or THE HUNTER CENTER, North Adams, MA.
7pm
It's a Hot! Hot! Hot! summer night and MASS MoCA is the place to revel in the warm island rhythms of a Calypso Dance Party. Straight from the Caribbean, Arrow, a first-class Calypsonian, mixes rock 'n' roll, salsa, soul, and more with traditional soca sounds. He has taken his tropical sound global with his international hit Hot, Hot, Hot and promises to turn up the heat for this back-to-the-islands bash. Spicy Caribbean dinner for sale before and during the party.
Tickets: $12 ADULTS, $6 KIDS
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Monday, September 3, 2001
The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration
Women of Achievement 2001 Lecture Series - Mary Ann Caws “Dora Maar: Not Just Picasso’s Weeping Woman”
Ten Mondays At 4:00 pm
Seven Hills Inn, 40 Plunkett Street (Adjacent to The Mount)
All lectures begin at 4 pm. $16 in advance; $18 at door (includes afternoon tea). Cash bar. Discounted season pass is $150. Reservations guarantee seating. A tour of The Mount may be combined for an additional $5. All speakers are published authorities on their subjects. Their books are available from The Mount's bookshop. For lecture reservations or book orders, call EWR at 413/637-1899.

Prix fixe dinners at Seven Hills Inn are available following lectures ($30, all-inclusive). For information/dinner reservations, call Seven Hills Inn at 413/637-0060 or 800/869-6518.

Saturday, September 29, 2001
Zoar Outdoor
10th Annual Zoar Outdoor Film Series - "Chilean Whitewater"
Charlemont, MA
Hosted at the Zoar Pavilion on Saturday evenings throughout the summer.
6:00 pm
The final presentation "Chilean Whitewater" on September 29th will be given by Chris Spelius, owner of Expediciones Chile and well known rodeo kayaker. Spe has been paddling on rivers around the world for the last 30 years and now operates a paddling school during the winter in Chile.

Come join us for some exciting adventures! These programs are free and open to the public. A simple summer barbecue starts at 5:00 pm for $5/person and shows begin at 6:00 pm at the Zoar Outdoor Pavilion.

ONGOING

September 2, 2000 through January 27, 2002
Exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum
Norman Rockwell's 322 Saturday Evening Post Covers
Back by popular demand, this archival exhibition shows all 322 covers Norman Rockwell illustrated for The Saturday Evening Post. From his first cover at the age of 22, to his last in 1963, Rockwell's work for The Saturday Evening Post charmed and delighted audiences. Rockwell's covers for the Post were so popular that, when a Rockwell illustration appeared on the cover, hundreds of thousands of magazines were added to the print run to handle the increased demand.
FOR INFORMATION: Please call 413-298-4100, ext. 220

March 17 to December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Stones of Assyria: Ancient Spirits from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
Two of the first objects to enter the Williams College Museum of Art's collection are re-examined in an installation that investigates their original function and location in a 7th c. BC palace in Iraq and the fascinating 19th century story of how they ended up at a small New England college. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections; Barbara Robertson, Director of Education; and Elyse Gonzales, MA '00.

May 19 through September 23, 2001
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Sculpture in the Garden 2001
Stockbridge, MA
An outdoor exhibition of contemporary sculpture presented in collaboration with Sculpture Now. The show presents the works of outstanding artists from the Berkshires and beyond displayed in a beautiful outdoor seting.

June 9 through October 8, 2001
Exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum
NORMAN ROCKWELL: PICTURES FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
This major national touring exhibition, co-organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge returns to Stockbridge before completing its seven city, coast-to-coast tour at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The exhibition includes more than 70 oil paintings from the collections of the Norman Rockwell Museum, other museums, and private collectors.

This exhibition and its national tour are made possible by the Ford Motor Company. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Curtis Publishing Company and the Norman Rockwell Estate Licensing Company. Education programs for the national tour are made possible by Fidelity Investments through the Fidelity Foundation.

June 16 to September 12, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
The Comedy of Errors
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
STABLES THEATRE
"I see by you I am a sweet-fac'd youth."
Shakespeare spoke and played to everyone: royalty, business people, the fun-loving groundlings. And in his earliest comic masterpiece, he made sure everyone's funny-bone got goosed.

When Antipholus and his servant Dromio arrive in Ephesus, mistaken identity is carried to outlandish extremes when the town confuses them for their identical native twins, who of course have identical names. Separated at birth on the high seas, neither pair knows the other exists, and neither knows the parental keys that could unlock their vaudevillian mystery. Only the audience holds the answer, and even that features a twist of identity!

June 17, 2001 through September 9, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890
Williamstown, MA
Eighty paintings by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, and Alfred Sisley are at the center of this exhibition exploring the complex working methods of the Impressionists. Unlike most Impressionist paintings, which were actually done in the studio, the works in this exhibition were painted quickly and are in fact among the true "Impressions" that gave the movement its name. Works by Van Gogh as well as by some early and mid-nineteenth century artists will also be included. Guest curator Richard Brettell, well known for his studies on Pissarro and Gauguin, has also written the catalogue, which is published by Yale University Press. The exhibition is organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in association with The National Gallery, London, and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Timed-entry tickets are required and are available by calling our toll-free number at 1-866-THE CLARK. Advance ticket sales will also be available at the Clark Art Institute beginning April 1.

June 28 through Labor Day, 2001
News in Review
5-Time Emmy Award Winning Satire Troupe
CRANWELL RESORT, Route 20, Lenox, MA
5-Time Emmy Award Winning Satire Troupe All new version for 2001! The Emmy award winning satire troupe returns to the Berkshires for a seventh smash summer with a side-splitting spoof of the people and places making the news. Headliners from Saddam Hussein to Katherine Harris share the stage with eternal NEWS IN REVUE faves like First Mama Barbara Bush and New York's own Hillary Clinton! The musical mayhem happens nightly (except Wednesdays) all summer long at the magnificent Cranwell Resort in Lenox. The show is performed at the incomparable Cranwell Resort. Show guests will be treated to Cranwell's special brand of five star hospitality. Stretch out in a plush chair, sip a glass of crisp chardonnay and nibble on a decadent chocolate torte as you laugh your way through ninety minutes.Join us for a sumptuous pre-show dinner featuring Cranwell's renowned cuisine. Click here to view the menus for the Wyndhurst Menu or Music Room Grill.

Now located at CRANWELL Resort! The show is performed cabaret style. Gourmet dinner packages featuring Cranwell's renowned cuisine are available. Performances nightly (except Wednesday) at 8:30.

Call for Group rates
Dinner-Show Packages are available
Cocktails and dessert and coffee are available
Performances every night except Wednesday
June 28 through Labor Day
CRANWELL RESORT, Route 20, Lenox, MA
For tickets and further information: Call (413) 637-1364 or 1 800-A-PARODY

JUNE 30 to SEPTEMBER 2, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
Wharton One-Acts
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
SPRING LAWN THEATRE
AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE
the World Premiere adapted from Henry James
by Dennis Krausnick
Henry James' tale of courtship between wealthy American girls and titled English aristocracy sparkles with a wit so wicked that both sides of the Atlantic find themselves lampooned. The peculiar, forthright habits of young American "colonials" are contrasted with those of their English counterparts, a people so reticent that the Americans wonder how they could be capable of building an empire. Love is only the excuse in this across-the-pond courtship: the real subject is the mating dance between American customs and European manners.

THE REMBRANDT
the World Premiere adapted from Edith Wharton
by Alison Ragland
When museum curator Miles Hackett over-values an alarmingly unfortunate work of art so that its destitute owner might escape starvation, philanthropy is revealed to have a double-edged sword. Wharton's lightning-quick and amusing short story makes a scathing double-bill with Mr. James' tale, mirroring what must have been the tenor of their conversations in Lenox nearly 100 years ago.

Please join us for the grand opening of the new Spring Lawn Theatre on Friday, July 6 at 8pm.
Tina Packer and the company will host a reception and house tours around a special performance of The Wharton One-Acts.
Tickets are $100 each. Seating is very limited. Call Karen Secular for details and to reserve your seats at 413-637-1199 x113.

July 20 to September 2, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
A Midsummer Night's Dream
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
OUTDOOR MAINSTAGE
Shakespeare & Company bids farewell to The Mount with the imagination befitting Shakespeare's best-loved comedy. The most magical outdoor setting in America comes alive for the last time with award-winning Tina Packer's direction of four lovers caught in the realm between our world and the world of dreams.

Experience the pageantry of love, the spirits of the night, the sublime clowning of the rustics, and the unmatched beauty of Shakespeare & Company's fairie kingdom as it lights up the majestic white pines once again. Bully Bottom, devilish Puck, feisty Hermia, and jealous Oberon promise to enthrall you by moonlight and send us all on our way to Shakespeare & Company's new home in 2002.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is the company's signature production. Please join us for our final celebration under the stars at The Mount!

Please join us for the Final Farewell performance on the Mainstage on Sunday, September 2 at 7pm. Tina Packer and the company will host a reception around a special performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Tickets are $100 each. Seating is limited. Call Karen Secular for details and to reserve your seats at 413-637-1199 x113.

July 23 to September 1, 2001
Berkshire Artisans
Pittsfield, MA
JEFF SLOMBA juried by Flood Adams, Santa Fe, N.M
public reception: July 27, 2001 at 8 pm

AUGUST 4 to SEPTEMBER 1, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
The Tempest
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
FOUNDERS' THEATRE
by William Shakespeare
directed by Eleanor Holdridge
"Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant"
Shakespeare's final play of compassion and forgiveness is his majestic ode to the craft of theatre itself. While encompassing the canon's most brilliant "special effects," The Tempest also ultimately reveals the actors, stage, and audience in their simplest relationship. And in the untested Founders' Theatre, exploring the consequences of Prospero's magic promises to be an exciting journey!

Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda have lived in exile on a mysterious island for 12 years. Practicing magical arts and indenturing the fairy spirit Ariel and the deformed savage Caliban, Prospero attempts to exact revenge on the brother who usurped his crown by shipwrecking the royal family on the isle. But when Miranda discovers love among the new arrivals, Prospero re-discovers his humanity, thus laying aside his and Shakespeare's art forever.

AUGUST 11 to SEPTEMBER 2, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
King John
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
STABLES THEATRE
by William Shakespeare
directed by Christine Adaire
performed by the Summer Training Institute
"Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!"
Betrayal is the weapon of choice when power politics turn deadly. When England's throne is seized by John, he battles familial infighting, war from France, desertion, and murdering ministers as he violently lurches between action and inaction, truth and deception.

God's will, long inexorably linked to state politics, here bows to heart-racing human invention. After this, the world's perception of the political maneuver would never be the same.

King John, today noted for his enforced granting of the Magna Carta and for his appearance in James Goldman's popular play A Lion in Winter seven centuries later, was the youngest son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. John assumed the throne when his eldest brother Richard the Lion Heart was imprisoned in Germany, an assumption that sparks the opening international conflict in Shakespeare's explosive play.

August 28 to September 2, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
The Studio Festival of Plays
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
FOUNDERS' SPRING LAWN THEATRES
This year's Festival is a fun and formal testing ground for new scripts, acted and directed by this season's artists. Originally inspired by actors to create a company fringe festival, the Studio Festival of Plays now will take that same inspiration and apply it to planning the company's future seasons, with the audiences' feedback. As in years past, each of the six performances may be presented in any format: reading, staged reading, or open rehearsal. It always makes for an exciting final week of the summer performance season, and it is an opportunity to see Shakespeare & Company's actors in the process of working on new scripts. The Studio Festival has transferred several acclaimed projects to following seasons: this year's A Tanglewood Tale, Coriolanus, Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), and also Wit, Summer, Betrayal, Mrs. Klein, and Laughing Wild. Watch for the full schedule to be announced in August 2001. Please join us!

August 29 to September 16, 2001
StageWorks Theater
THE LARAMIE PROJECT
North Pointe Cultural Arts Center located in Historic Kinderhook, New York.
by Moises Kaufman & Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Regional Premiere! The story of an American town. A true story that is destined to become an American theater classic. In 1998, a month after student Matthew Shepard was murdered, Award-winning playwright Moisés Kaufman & members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to explore a crime and a town.

Over the next year, they conducted over 200 interviews. The result is an electrifying new play about hope, hate, fear and courage

SEPTEMBER 7 to OCTOBER 21, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
A Tanglewood Tale
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
SPRING LAWN THEATRE
the World Premiere by Juliane Glantz and Stephen Glantz
directed by Michael Hammond
"When the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning."
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby-Dick, Shakespeare & Company introduces a fascinating and daring World Premiere that peers into the relationship between Melville and his dearest friend at the time of the book's release, Nathaniel Hawthorne.

In 1851 both Melville and Hawthorne found themselves and their families in virtual exile in the Berkshires — Melville at Arrowhead, Hawthorne at Tanglewood.

In many ways the two men could not have been more dissimilar: Melville the pagan rabble-rouser; Hawthorne, the reclusive puritan. And yet they quickly recognized in one another a kindred spirit. But as this new play suggests, the dissimilarities may have prevailed in the end. Although the men relied on one another for inspiration (Melville dedicated Moby-Dick to Hawthorne), Melville's last letters to his friend were fraught with the torment of a sudden and unexplained estrangement.

What was the true nature of their relationship? Would Moby-Dick ever have been completed without Hawthorne to "mentor" Melville? Don't miss this intriguing exploration in the new Spring Lawn Theatre — overlooking Tanglewood and located just down the road from Arrowhead with its view of Mount Greylock, Melville's inspirational "mountain of a whale."

September 10 to October 19, 2001
Berkshire Artisans
Pittsfield, MA
SARAH RENTZ and NANCY GOODPASTER juried by Flood Adams., Santa Fe, N.M
public reception: September 14 at 8 pm

Through September 3, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Photography EXPOSED
An installation of photographs from the museum's collection investigating the question, "what makes a portrait?" Included in the exhibition are anonymous daguerreotypes along with work by Julia Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lewis Hine, Barbara Morgan, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Alfred Stieglitz, and James Van Der Zee. Organized by Rachael Arauz, Visiting Professor of Art and Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- A Wall Drawing by Sol Lewitt
To launch its 75th anniversary year, the Williams College Museum of Art invited renowned, conceptual artist Sol LeWitt to create a wall drawing for the museum's atrium. Consistent with the artist's belief that the concept and not the execution is the most important aspect of a work of art, a representative from his studio along with three Williams College students created the 33-foot high painting according to a set of LeWitt's site-specific plans. For two weeks in January 2001 visitors watched Uneven Bands from the Upper Right Corner take form from beginning stages to finished work. The completed wall drawing in red, blue, yellow, purple, green, and orange is on view through December 2001.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- American Pop
In their efforts to explore the aesthetics of mass culture, American Pop artists produced an enormous body of art in a variety of media. This exhibition includes 16 images -- paintings and works on paper -- by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Johns, Rauschenberg, Rivers, and Ruscha in which the viewer confronts the clash of high art, painterly values, and the mundane commercial world. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Masterpieces Ancient to Modern
Celebrating WCMA's 75 years of dedication to teaching and learning about art, this exhibition provides an interesting and informative survey of the breadth and strengths of the College Museum's holdings. It reveals the complicated story of the evolution of this unique museum, shaped by individual directors and curators, changing philosophies of taste and the results of just plain chance. The painting, sculpture and work on paper selected from the over 12,000 objects in the collection will offer fresh insight and perspective to the multiplicity of forms, historic periods, individual expressions and diverse world cultures. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Pulling Prints: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Collection
Approaching the museum's permanent collection from the artist's perspective two Williams College studio faculty members, select works that exemplify the process and temporality specific to the printmaking medium. Artists including Francisco Goya, Alberto Giacometti, Judy Pfaff, Roger Brown, and Joyce Neimanas explore a variety of techniques from traditional lithography and etching to serigraph, monoprint, silkscreen, inkjet, and photogravure. Organized by Barbara Takenaga, Professor of Art, Frank Jackson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, and Lisa Dorin, Curatorial Assistant.

Throughout 2001
Buggy Whip Factory
Buggy Whip Factory opens historic exhibit
Southfield, MA
The museum, free and open to the public, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Thursday through Monday. It will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday until May 1.

The Buggy Whip Factory, a 20,000- square-foot complex in the Southfield section of the town now occupied by about 60 antiques dealers and craftsmen, has opened a permanent historic exhibition to honor and document the "whip shop's" 200 years of achievement.

The Turner & Cook Whip Manufactory got its start in 1791 as a small tanning operation. It grew into a large enterprise at its present site, specializing first in rawhide whip cores. Then, as the demand for buggy whips faded, belt pins and rawhide mallets became the focus until the shop ceased operation.
For more info call (413) 229-3576