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The Sixth Annual Berkshire Fringe is scheduled for July 26 – August 16, 2010, presenting eight shows in the Daniel Arts Center on the campus of Simon’s Rock and at Mixed Company, in Great Barrington, MA. The festival also includes 30 Live!, a totally free music series; EarlyStages, a showcase of new plays by emerging local writers; and dozens of other special events including post-show artist discussions, free community workshops and a world-premiere benefit reading of Bird of Paradise, written by late Berkshire Fringe intern and collaborator, Tadd Gero. (Get directions to the venues.)
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Since 2005, Bazaar Productions/The Berkshire Fringe has hosted more than 200 emerging artists including theater companies, dance ensembles and music groups from across the country and around the corner. Hailed as ‘sassy and experimental’ by the New York Times, Bazaar Productions will once again present a diverse cross-section of original, high-quality, inter-disciplinary theater, dance and music—all at affordable prices.??In 2010, each show will once again kick off with the ragingly popular “pick your own price” opening nights. Make us an offer we can’t refuse or pay what you can for each of the eight opening night performances throughout the festival. This great offer provides affordable culture to all of Berkshire county.

For the adventurous Fringe connoisseur, a “Full Fix Season’s Pass” to all eight shows is available at a discounted rate of only $95. A “Mini-Fix See3 Pass” is also available for an unbelievable $39. Individual tickets are $15.

The season lineup is as follows:??

Monday, July 26 – The 2010 Berkshire Fringe Gala

• PRESCRIPTED! Use only as directed
• by Berkshire Fringe co-Artistic Director Timothy Ryan Olson
• Tickets: $100, $50 or Pay Your Age

PRESCRIPTED! Use only as directed – Exploring artistic innovation and collaboration across disciplines, Prescriped! doses out an extraordinary evening of world premiere dance, film, theater and works of visual art all inspired by one identical script written by Berkshire Fringe co-Artistic Director Timothy Ryan Olson. Featuring cocktails, hor ‘d oeuvres, silent auction, DJ/Dancing. 7pm/8pm Tickets: $100, $50 or Pay Your Age.

MONSTER
Created and Choreographed by Rebecca Pappas
AT THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER

At once beautiful and grotesque, awkward and delicate, Rebecca Pappas’ Monster immerses you unapologetically into a world that questions identity and shame, and what it means to be a victim and victimizer, where the fine line between human and monster grows increasingly thin.

Using four highly skilled dancers, haunting narration and an original score, Monster’s otherworldly nervous-tick creatures, high-energy choreography, and pseudo-folk dances collide to form a compelling portrait of the Jewish body.

Hailed as “compelling” and “mesmerizing” by the Los Angeles Times.

Wed Jul 28 at 8pm, Thu Jul 29 at 9pm, Fri Jul 30 at 7pm, Sat Jul 31 at 7pm, and Sun Aug 1 at 4pm.

PI CLOWNS – AT THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER

This San Francisco based company of brilliant and quirky physical comedians delivers a giant wallop of buffoonery that will have audiences of all ages rolling on the floor.

With feats of incredible strength and acts of transcendental stupidity, the Pi Clowns take on the big questions of life (and death!) Using acrobatics, juggling, eccentric dance, live music, improvisation, and puppetry, these performers rely on the physical virtuosity of their bodies to tell their stories.

Thu Jul 29 at 7pm, Fri Jul 30 at 9pm, Sat Jul 31 at 4pm, Sun Aug 1 6:00, and Mon Aug 2 at 8pm

QUAKE: A CLOSET LOVE STORY – AT MIXED COMPANY

A new musical about love and earthquakes, and the similarities between them

Created and Performed by Tyler Olsen and Zuzka Sabata
AT MIXED COMPANY

Joe and Hannah just broke up. Now they have to divide up years’ worth of collective belongings. But when a huge earthquake hits, they find themselves trapped in a storage closet. Can being confined to such a small space help mend the rift between them?

Part musical, part comedy and all high drama, Quake reveals the exhilaration and horror of being caught by something as powerful as love and as unpredictable as an earthquake.

Thu Jul 29 at 8pm, Fri Jul 30 at 4pm, Sat Jul 31 at 9pm, Sun Aug 1 at 8pm, and Mon Aug 2 at 6pm

GIVE US BREAD – AT THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER

Created and Performed by The Anthropologists, Directed by Melissa Fendell Moschitto
AT THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER

New York, February 1917: prices for basic food items rise dramatically. Unable and unwilling to pay prices that have skyrocketed, six ordinary women band together to enforce neighborhood boycotts that soon erupt into full-scale riots.

Mixing elements of realism with stylized movement, New York based theater ensemble, The Anthropologists, presents a vivid portrait of immigrant families in the tenements of the Lower East Side. Grounded in eyewitness accounts of the riots, Give Us Bread illuminates our contemporary global hunger crisis, through the lens of our not-too-distant past.

Wed Aug 4 at 8pm, Thu Aug 5 at 9pm, Fri Aug 6 at 7pm, Sat Aug 7 at 7pm, and Sun Aug 8 at 4pm.

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VIVA LA EVOLUCION – AT THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER

Created and Performed by Diana Yanez, Directed by Marjorie Duffield
AT THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER

First generation Cuban performer/writer Diana Yanez (Margaret Cho’s The Sensuous Woman, Spanish For Your Nanny) makes ‘mojitos out of the limones’ of her life in this outrageous comedy of chaos, love and growing up queer and Cuban in Miami.

Yanez creates a myriad of characters, deftly portraying her mother, brother, and countless relatives, friends and neighbors.

Thu Aug 5 at 7pm, Fri Aug 6 at 9pm, Sat Aug 7 at 4pm, Sun Aug 8 at 6pm, and Mon Aug 9 at 8pm

IT OR HER – AT MIXED COMPANY

Written by Alena Smith, Directed by Jessi D. Hill
Featuring Brian McManamon
AT MIXED COMPANY

In the basement of a home somewhere in suburbia, Andrew has devoted himself unconditionally to his incredible collection of figurines. Suffering the loss of ‘the red one” he seeks to uncover “the ultimate arrangement”, before his hideout is invaded.

A provocative dark comedy about the personal reality of a man whose repression turns to total obsession, IT or HER unfolds to reveal Andrew’s darkest secret.

Thu Aug 5 at 8pm, Fri Aug 6 at 4pm, Sat Aug 7 at 9pm, Sun Aug 8 at 8pm, and Mon Aug 9 at 6pm

DRAW THE CIRCLE – AT THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER

Written and Performed by Deen, Directed by Chay Yew.
AT THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER

Draw The Circle is an intimate portrait of a traditional immigrant family’s struggle with a child who continually defies their most basic expectations of what it means to have a daughter…and one woman’s commitment to unconditional love.

This unique solo show is a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of the tenacity of love. The story is told by Deen himself, but through the eyes of his family, friends and partner as they struggle to come to terms with the evolution of a transgendered child/friend/lover. This new work comes directly from The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group.

Wed Aug 11 at 8pm, Thu Aug 12 at 9pm, Fri Aug 13 at 7pm, Sat Aug 14 at 9pm, and Sun Aug 15 at 7pm

RIDGEFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL TALENT NITE – AT THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER

Created and Performed by Jo Firestone and Dylan Marron
AT THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER

Ridgefield Middle School Talent Nite offers a comedic tribute of pre-pubescent proportions to the time-honored tradition of intolerable amateur talent presentations. In these hilariously sketched talent ‘acts’, 17 brave Ridgefield citizens (all played by Jo Firestone and Dylan Marron) emerge from awkward obscurity to find their rightful place in the spotlight.

Anyone who has ever been a middle-schooler is sure to recognize their best friends and worst enemies in this wild cast of brashly rendered characters trying to make their lifelong dreams come true!

Thu Aug 12 at 7pm, Fri Aug 13 at 9pm, Sat Aug 14 at 7pm, Sun Aug 15 at 9pm, and Mon Aug 16 at 8pm.

SPECIAL STAGED READING EVENT

BIRD OF PARADISE: A Staged Reading event to benefit the
TADD GERO FUND FOR EMERGING WRITERS at The Berkshire Fringe

Bird of Paradise is a full-length play written by Berkshire native Tadd Gero shortly before his death in August of 2009. A small ensemble of his collaborators and friends from across the United States gather to bring his work to the stage for the first time. All proceeds benefit the Tadd Gero Fund for Emerging writers, a scholarship established by Tadd’s family and The Berkshire Fringe dedicated to nurturing the talents of emerging playwrights in the Berkshire region. 1pm. Sliding scale admission. $10-$110. The Daniel Arts Center, Simon’s Rock, 84 Alford Rd, Great Barrington. For more information, call (413) 320-4175 or visit Berkshire Fringe.

Berkshire Fringe – Free programs

EarlyStages playwright mentorship program
On Sunday, August 15th at 12, 1:30 and 3pm participants in the EarlyStages playwright mentorship program will present staged readings of new works. Be the first to hear these new American voices presented as three fresh, insightful and exciting world premiere staged readings. This is the culmination of a two-week residency where emerging local writers develop scripts under the guidance of Award winning writer Laura Maria Censabella. Readings directed by Keith Bulla. This event is free and will be followed by a discussion with the artists.

30 LIVE! – Free music series featuring an eclectic mix of new music, emerging composers and sonic innovators from throughout the North East. Please check website for a full line-up of bi-weekly events throughout the festival.

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS – All workshops are FREE and take place on Saturday July 31, Monday, August 2, Saturday August 7 and Saturday August 14 at 1:30 pm in the Daniel Arts Center. Each workshop is taught by Berkshire Fringe festival artists and is open to participants of all backgrounds and levels of experience ages 16-96! Space is limited and early registration is strongly recommended. Please call 413-320-4175 for more information.

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All Berkshire Fringe performances, events and workshops take place at The Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 84 Alford Road in Great Barrington, MA unless otherwise noted. Performances of Quake and IT or HER will take place at Mixed Company, 37 Rossetter Street in Great Barrington. Tickets are $15 to all main events and $ Pick your Own Price for all opening night performances. Ask our box office about a Season’s Pass – See all eight shows for only $95 or choose any three shows for $39. All workshops, :30 Live! performances and EarlyStages readings are free. For directions, tickets, workshop registration, and all other information please call (413) 320-4175, e-mail us at info@berkshirefringe.org or visit Berkshire Fringe.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute schedule for summer 2010 is highlighted by Picasso Looks at Degas, an exhibition that will make its only North American stop at the Clark in Williamstown June 13 through September 12, 2010. Picasso Looks at Degas, curated by Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendall, with more than 100 works assembled from museums and private collections around he world, includes archival material on Picasso’s relationship with the ballet. The exhibition travels next to the Museu Picasso in Barcelona in the fall of 2010.

Throughout his life Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was fascinated with the life and work of Edgar Degas (1834–1917). Picasso collected the Impressionist’s pictures, continually re-interpreted his images, and at the end of his life, created scenes that included depictions of Degas himself.

The depth of Picasso’s fixation is revealed through dramatic pairings and groupings of art that have never been brought together in this ambitious way. Degas’s In a Café (L’Absinthe) (1875–76, Musée d’Orsay) is placed alongside Picasso’s Portrait of Sebastià Junyer i Vidal (1903, Los Angeles County Museum of Art); Picasso’s oil on canvas The Blue Room (The Tub) (1901, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.) is paired with The Tub (c. 1889, Collection Jacques Doucet, Paris), a monotype by Degas that may have served as a prototype; and Picasso’s 1905 Portrait of Benedetta Canals (Museu Picasso, Barcelona) is hung beside Degas’s Woman with an Umbrella (c. 1876, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa).

“This exhibition is the culmination of five years of research,” said Michael Conforti, director of the Clark. “Curators Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendall began discussing the exhibition ten years ago and have met with members of the Picasso family, studied hundreds of works by Picasso and Degas, and visited archives, museums, and private collections in the United States and Europe. Their insightful work will change our view of Picasso as an artist. This fresh look at two of the greatest artists of the modern period will fascinate visitors as well as scholars and art historians.”

Picasso and Degas shared many acquaintances and lived in close proximity in Paris until the older artist’s death in 1917, through they probably never met. Picasso Looks at Degas examines Degas through Picasso’s eyes and the ways the Spanish artist’s response varied over time from emulation to confrontation and parody to homage. The artists shared a lifelong obsession with women, visible in their portraits of friends and images of singers, laundresses, ballet dancers, bathers, and prostitutes. It is widely acknowledged that these are Degas’s signature themes, but all of them are echoed in Picasso’s work.

While usually identified as painters, both Degas and Picasso were innovative sculptors, printmakers, and extraordinary draftsmen, and the exhibition brings together works in these different media to examine Picasso’s reaction to the challenge of Degas. The exhibition opens with Picasso’s early years when he received an academic training similar to that of Degas, whose art he had yet to discover. It then leads into the bohemian world of early twentieth-century Paris where Picasso first directly encountered Degas’s work and began to respond to the Impressionist’s imagery of modern life. During this period Picasso experimented with a subject particularly associated with Degas—the laundress—and made it his own in Woman Ironing (1904, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). In pictures such as End of the Performance (1900–01, Museu Picasso, Barcelona), Picasso pays tribute to Degas’s café-concert scenes by depicting singers in mid-performance on stage.

The ballet, a central theme in Degas’s work and paintings such as Dancers in the Classroom (c. 1880, the Clark), established him as the Impressionist artist of dance. Picasso Looks at Degas examines Picasso’s depiction of the ballet at various points in his career. In a striking example of how the artists’ unspoken dialogue unfolded, the Clark’s iconic sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1880–81), considered shocking and radical in its time, is juxtaposed with Picasso’s Standing Nude (1907, Civiche Raccolte d’Arte, Milan), which heralded Cubism. Shortly after Degas’s death, Picasso married Olga Khokhlova, a dancer from the Ballets Russes, and embarked on a passionate exploration of the dance that culminated in a number of sculptures emulating Degas’s celebrated series of dancers executing arabesques.

Picasso also inherited and transformed another of Degas’s favorite themes—women bathing or doing their hair—returning to it repeatedly over a period of more than fifty years. The exhibition will reveal how both artists explored this intimate female world in all media and in formats ranging from the diminutive to the monumental. In one exceptional pairing Picasso’s dramatic blue-gray Nude Wringing Her Hair (1952, Private Collection) is juxtaposed with Degas’s late red-pink Combing the Hair (c. 1892–1896, The National Gallery, London). The exhibition also brings together sculptures by both artists which explore the unusual subject of a heavily pregnant nude woman.

In the late 1870s Degas created a series of monotypes depicting prostitutes and their customers in brothels. Relishing the subject, Picasso particularly admired these prints and eventually acquired nine of them for his own collection. At the end of his life he directly engaged with them in a series of humorous and poignant etchings in which Degas himself appears in the guise of a wary and inhibited but fascinated client. The exhibition closes with this series and with the portrait of Degas Picasso painted in 1968 as a tribute to the great Impressionist.

Picasso Looks at Degas was organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and the Museu Picasso, Barcelona. It is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, and with the special cooperation of Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte.

The exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Cowling, Professor Emeritus of History of Art at Edinburgh University, and Richard Kendall, the Clark’s Curator at Large. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue by Cowling and Kendall, with contributions by Sarah Lees, associate curator of European art at the Clark; Cécile Godefroy, researcher at the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte in Madrid; and Montse Torras, exhibitions coordinator at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona. The catalogue is published by the Clark and distributed by Yale University Press, and is available in English, Spanish, and Catalan.

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Ongoing exhibitions at MASS MoCA in North Adams include Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, 105 large-scale wall drawings that occupy nearly an acre of interior walls, installed according to LeWitt’s specifications. Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) collaborated with the Yale University Art Gallery on the conception of the exhibition, created by them, MASS MoCA, and the Williams College Museum of Art. Installation of the exhibition, which opened in November, 2007 and will run for 25 years, involved nearly six months of intensive drafting and painting by a team of some sixty-five artists and art students.

Scheduled to open May 29, 2010 at MASS MoCA is Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge, a selection of Coyne’s recent work along with two new works. The exhibition includes selections from Coyne’s series based on Dante’s Inferno, such as Untitled #1180 (Beatrice) which transforms Dante’s love into a monumental sculpture of black wax covered flowers with the most subtle color breaking through, velvet and various taxidermy birds diving in and out of the towering form.

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performing arts schedule at MASS MoCA

The performing arts schedule at MASS MoCA includes music, theatre, dance, film, video, film with live music, dance parties, kids events. Here is a selection of upcoming events:

Carolina Chocolate Drops – MASS MoCA -May 29, 2010

• Carolina Chocolate Drops with The Duke & The King
• Saturday, May 29, 2010, 8:00 pm
• Hunter Center
• $28 priority seating/$18 advance/$22 day of show/$10 students

Singing Games with Roomful of Teeth – MASS MoCA – June 12, 2010

• Singing Games with Roomful of Teeth
• Saturday, June 12, 2010, 1:00 pm
• Club B-10
• $5 per person

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – MASS MoCA – June 26, 2010

• Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
• Saturday, June 26, 2010, 8:00 pm
• Pavilion or Club B-10
• $12 adv/$16 day of/$10 students/Members 10% discount

Richie Havens – MASS MoCA – July 2, 2010

• Richie Havens
• Friday, July 2, 2010, 8:00 pm
• Courtyard C or Hunter Center
• $22 in advance/ $25 day of show/ $32 priority seating/ Members 10% Discount

Bang on a Can Festival of Contemporary Music 2010 – MASS MoCA – July 14 – 31, 2010

• Bang on a Can Festival of Contemporary Music 2010
• July 14 – 31, 2010, 8:00 pm
• MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
• Festival pass $60

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Shakespeare and Co.’s schedule for the 2010 summer season of theatre in Lenox includes 4 plays by William Shakespeare, Richard lll, Julius Caesar, The Comedy Of Errors, and A Winter’s Tale, a series of plays by Tina Packer about Shakespeare’s plays, Joan Ackermann’s play The Taster, the world premiere of Mengelberg And Mahler, by Daniel Klein, Sea Marks by Gardner McKay, and the encore production of Theresa Rebeck’s play Bad Dates, starring Elizabeth Aspenleider.

2010 Shakespeare and Co. schedule – Founders’ Theatre

Women Of Will: Following The Feminine In Shakespeare’s Plays

• By Tina Packer
• Directed by Eric Tucker
• Featuring: Tina Packer and Nigel Gore
• Founders’ Theatre, May 28—July 24
• Press Opening: Saturday, May 29 at 7:30pm

A true tour de force of performance, discussion, and just a bit of crowd participation, Women of Will is the much-anticipated, masterful summation of Tina Packer’s 40-odd years of deep investigation into all things Shakespeare. Packer and Shakespeare & Company favorite Nigel Gore, who have starred opposite each other in celebrated productions
including Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet, present a series of scenes from throughout Shakespeare’s canon, providing
insight into the chronological growth of Shakespeare’s portrayal not only of female characters but of the qualities
traditionally considered feminine. This comprehensive overview combines themes from the full, five-part opus, and covers
the full breadth of Shakespeare’s works.

Women Of Will: The Complete Journey (Parts 1-5)

• By Tina Packer
• Directed by Eric Tucker
• Featuring: Tina Packer and Nigel Gore
• Bernstein Studio 3, August 25—27

This can’t-miss extravaganza features the world premiere of the fully expanded, five-part version of Packer’s opus,
performed in an intimate setting over the course of three days. Limited seating is available for this priceless opportunity to
explore the depth of Shakespeare’s work with Shakespeare & Company’s visionary founder.

Richard III

• By William Shakespeare
• Directed by Artistic Director Tony Simotes
• Featuring: John Douglas Thompson as Richard and Tod Randolph as Elizabeth. Other cast members include Jason Asprey, Johnny Lee Davenport, Nigel Gore, Elizabeth Ingram, Annette Miller, and Rocco Sisto.
• Founders’ Theatre: July 2—September 5
• Press Opening: Friday, July 9 at 7:30pm

“Since I cannot prove a lover…I am determined to prove a villain.”
At what price glory? One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays ever since its debut, Richard III is the story of a man who will do anything to become king—and the ruthless ambition that inevitably undoes him. This production, sure to be one of the most eagerly anticipated of the year, reunites award-winning actor John Douglas Thompson (as Richard) with S&Co. Artistic Director Tony Simotes, who directed Thompson in the 2008/2009 production of Othello that proved one of S&Co.’s most critically acclaimed box office hits ever. Thompson is joined by longtime S&Co. favorite Tod Randolph (Queen Elizabeth), last seen onstage here in Enchanted April, the surprising smash of 2006.

The Winter’s Tale

• By William Shakespeare
• Directed by Director of Education Kevin G. Coleman
• Featuring: Elizabeth Aspenlieder as Hermione, Jonathan Epstein as Leontes, and Corinna May as Paulina. Other cast members include, Jason Asprey, Jonathan Croy, Johnny Lee Davenport, and Malcolm Ingram.
• Founder’s Theatre: July 15—September 6
• Press Opening: Friday, July 23 at 7:30pm

“If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating”
By turns enchanting and mysterious, hilarious and heartbreaking, this enigmatic tale has long beguiled audiences with its
story of miraculous transformation and the enduring strength of family ties. This startling and original adventure is not quite a comedy, not quite a tragedy, but one hundred percent Shakespeare. All seems well at court in Sicilia, but the jealous king recklessly pushes away those he loves—sending them on odysseys of self-renewal and enlightenment—only to finally reunite with his family sixteen years later. After memorable visits from some of Shakespeare’s funniest pastoral characters, it takes perhaps the most startling coup de theatre in the canon—and maybe just a touch of magic—to redeem a king’s shame, and make a broken family whole again. This production marks S&Co. Director of Education and Founder Kevin G. Coleman’s debut directing Shakespeare on the main stage, following his outrageous hits The Ladies Man (2008) and Rough Crossing (2009).

The Taster

• By Joan Ackermann
• Directed by Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer
• Featuring: Maureen O’Flynn, Robert Biggs, and Rocco Sisto.
• Founder’s Theatre: July 28—September 6
• Press Opening: Saturday, July 31 at 7:30pm

“Could you taste my dreams as well?”
The Taster, a poignant and darkly funny play by Ackermann, makes its world premiere in Founders’ under the direction of
Tina Packer, Founding Artistic Director, who directed the successful world premiere of Ackermann’s Ice Glen in 2005. This
sumptuous feast of language introduces audiences to a world where the powers of literature and imagination co-mingle in the affairs of a contemporary couple at a crossroads. Henry’s career and marriage are in ruins, and his opera-singing wife Claudia wonders why he spends his days translating an obscure play about a boorish King and his beloved food taster. But sometimes a dusty play can speak to us from the past and provide the sustenance we need. Characters pass between the present day and medieval times, weaving a richly layered tapestry of theatre. Henry finds the nourishment he craves in the simple wisdom of a man gifted not only in the art of tasting, but of selfless service to others.

2010 Shakespeare and Co. schedule – Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre

Julius Caesar

• By William Shakespeare
• Directed by Jonathan Croy and presented by S&Co.’s Education Program artists
• Featuring: Katherine Abbruzzese, Jake Berger, Dani Cervone, Sean Kazarian, Andy Talen and perennial favorite Ryan Winkles (Othello, Twelfth Night, Merry Wives of Windsor)
• Bernstein Theatre: May 21—June 13
• Press Opening: Saturday, May 22 at 8:00pm

“Men at some time are masters of their fates”
He was a leader so remarkable, his name would become immortal. Yet with each victory, Julius Caesar pushed Rome closer
toward monarchy—a yoke its citizens proudly threw off hundreds of years before. Shakespeare’s account of the conspiracy to kill Caesar, and the wild struggle to achieve order from the chaos that resulted, has long been loved for the clarity and beauty of its language. From a soothsayer’s immortal warning for Caesar, to Marc Antony’s famous funeral speech, Julius Caesar is dotted with some of the most memorable and enduring turns of phrase in the English language. The annual New England Tour of Shakespeare is a core element of S&Co.’s Education Program. This pared-down, electric production toured schools and theatres for four months before taking up residency at the Bernstein. It features a cast of young S&Co. actors on the rise.

Mengelberg And Mahler – World premiere

• By Daniel Klein
• Directed by Emile Fallaux
• Featuring Robert Lohbauer
• Bernstein Theatre: June 11—September 9
• Press Opening: Saturday, June 12, 8:00pm

“Nothing less than a martyr will impress you.”
After fifty celebrated years leading the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Holland—during which he famously championed the
work of Jewish composer Gustav Mahler—legendary maestro Willem Mengelberg is faced with the unexpected prospect of
exile, in retribution for his perceived collaboration with the Nazis during their occupation of the Netherlands. Lohbauer delivers a powerhouse performance in this gripping one-man show, jumping across time and memory as one man
examines the choices he’s made, in a “conversation” with the memory of his friend and greatest inspiration. In the end,
conscience is the surest judge.

The Comedy Of Errors

• By William Shakespeare
• Directed by Dennis Krausnick
• Presented by the Training Program’s Performance Intern Program participants
• Bernstein Theatre: June 26 —September 4
• Press Opening: Saturday July 3, 12:45pm

Lunchbox Shakespeare!
“Every why hath a wherefore”
A roar. A riot. A wild ride indeed.
The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earliest and most unbridled comedies. Belly laughs aplenty are found in the
yawning gulf between the careful symmetry of the play’s structure and the whirlwind of its riotous plot. Stocked with
multiple sets of identical twins (constantly mistaken for each other, of course) and laced with giddy wordplay, The Comedy of Errors offers a brilliant glimpse at Shakespeare beginning to come into his own as a master dramatist.
A continuation of the very popular Lunchbox Shakespeare tradition, this high-octane production is presented by the young
actors in Shakespeare & Company’s professional actor training program—with a delicious lunch available for sale, to
compliment your bite of Bard!

Sea Marks

• By Gardner McKay
• Directed by Daniela Varon
• Featuring: Walton Wilson and Kristin Wold
• Bernstein Theatre: July 9—September 4
• Press Opening: Saturday, July 10 at 8:00pm

“I truly don’t know how I feel, but I know I never felt like this.”
For anyone who’s ever thought the chance for love has passed, comes this sea-swept tale of an unlikely romance springing at an unlikely moment. A fisherman from Ireland’s western islands has a poet’s touch but simple tastes, and a soul as deep as the ocean—which is his home, his religion, and his prison. A Welsh woman has left her native farm for the hustle-bustle of Liverpool and a career in publishing. Neither expected to find love later in life. But once the power of the written word brings them together, they are ready to try. These two seemingly mismatched people are finally ready to cross the ocean of loneliness that has kept them stranded for far too long. But in the intersection of poetry, love and ambition, some good things endure while others break apart.

Bad Dates

• By Theresa Rebeck
• Featuring: Elizabeth Aspenlieder
• Bernstein Theatre: August 4—September 12
• Press Opening: Saturday, August 7 at 8:00pm

The whirlwind winter hit of 2009 is back! By popular demand, S&Co. favorite Elizabeth Aspenlieder returns to the stage in
the role for which she won a prestigious Elliot Norton Award (Best Solo Performance 2009) and was nominated for a 2010
IRNE Award. Aspenlieder pulls out all the stops as she slips into the role of single-mom-with-an-attitude Haley Walker, in
this one-woman-wonder of a play. Haley balances the pressures that come with a new career as a fashionable New York City restaurateur, raising a teenaged daughter, and even a too-close-for-comfort relationship with the Romanian mob—and does so without neglecting to find the perfect pair of shoes. A barnstorming box office hit and exultant critical favorite in winter 2009 season, Bad Dates returns this year at the peak of our summer season for all audiences to enjoy.

Schedule of concerts and events at the Colonial Theatre during the 2010 spring and summer season in downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Get driving directions to the Colonial Theatre; read reviews, compare rates, make reservations at Pittsfield hotels.

Colonial Theatre schedule June 2010

• 6/03 Sherri James Buxton & Friends: Songs from the Heart with Special Guest Matt Savage
• 6/09 Rusted Root
• 6/17 Los Lonely Boys
• 6/29 Rosanne Cash: The List

Colonial Theatre schedule July 2010

• 7/09 Caroline Rhea with Special Guest Tony Deyo
• 7/10 Bruce in the USA
• 7/16 Marc Salem’s: Mind Games
• 7/17 The Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats
• 7/23 Maureen McGovern: A Long and Winding Road: The Concert
• 7/30 Ricky Nelson Remembered starring Matthew & Gunnar Nelson and The Stone Canyon Band
• 7/31 If You Ever Leave Me…I’m Going with You! With Renee Taylor & Joe Bologna

Colonial Theatre schedule August 2010

8/07 Catie Curtis & Jonatha Brooke

8/11 Betty Buckley: Broadway by Request

8/14 John Oliver

8/21 Blue: The Music of Joni Mitchell

8/27 Ute Lemper

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• Pittsfield Travelodge
• Patriot Suites
• Ramada Limited Inn & Suites Pittsfield
• Crown Plaza Hotel
• Berkshire Inn
• The Yankee Suites Extended Stay

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