7.3.08
Jacob's Pillow Gala makes the New York Sun
Mysterious Zelig shows up in front-page photo
7.1.08
MONTREAL DIARY
Live from the Montreal International Jazz Festival
7.1.08
WTF's NICHOLAS MARTIN TO HEADLINE FREE FORUM
[PRESS RELEASE] New WTF leader at Triplex, Sunday, July 13, 11 a.m., for REST OF THE STORY
6.27.08
[DANCE REVIEW] Mark Morris at Tanglewood
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
6.24.08
Passenger air travel on brink of collapse
System headed for full-metal breakdown by end of year
6.24.08
Gas prices may usher in era of New Urbanism
Suburbs collapsing from internal contradiction of life built around cars, highways, and cheap gas
6.24.08
Ian McEwan joins Martin Amis in speaking out against Islamism
Rare writers willing to take a politically incorrect stand
6.24.08
BTF's Kate Maguire speaks at forum on Sunday, June 29
REST OF THE STORY event at Triplex Cinema
9.13.07
YOGA to be focus of forum on September 23
Berkshire Living's REST OF THE STORY event at the Triplex
6.19.08
New Mamet One-Act to Debut at Mahaiwe
[PRESS RELEASE] Benefit Performance for Berkshire Playwrights Lab June 25
6.19.08
[FILM REVIEW] ROMAN DE GARE
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
6.16.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Jen Chapin at Club Helsinki
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
6.18.08
[DANCE REVIEW] Garth Fagan collaborates with Wynton Marsalis at Jacob's Pillow
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
6.17.08
Cafe Latino to celebrate opening of gallery, downtown arts festival
[PRESS RELEASE] Restaurant at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., to display Latino artwork
6.17.08
Cafe Latino to celebrate opening of gallery, downtown arts festival
[PRESS RELEASE] Restaurant at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., to display Latino artwork
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The Rogovoy Report's Weekend Highlights
9.14.07
Before the summer cultural season becomes a vague memory, it’s time to look back and recap the highlights of the past season.
In theater, the standouts were two contemporary plays at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox that shared several cast members: Rough Crossing, a musical farce by Tom Stoppard, and Blue Orange, a drama by Joe Penhall about race, politics and insanity.
Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield kicked off its first full season at its new location with an exciting production of West Side Story. And the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge scored big with Tennessee Williams’s Glass Menagerie on its Unicorn Stage and Morning's at Seven on the Mainstage.
In its seventy fifth anniversary season, Jacob’s Pillow featured old favorites and cutting-edge ensembles, several of which stand out as the highlights of the season, including Aurelia’s Oratorio, performed by the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin; Club Guy and Roni, from Israel by way of Holland, and Big Dance Theater, performing an experimental multimedia extravaganza blending contemporary American salespeak with Okinawan folk tales and music.
Speaking of music, the musical highlights of the summer included, somewhat surprisingly, a Fourth of July concert at Tanglewood featuring the New Cars, led by Todd Rundgren, in what just may have been a better concert than any by the old Cars. Other musical highlights included the Amstel Saxophone Quartet from Amsterdam, performing at The Clark in Williamstown, and, of course, James Taylor, performing his intimate one-man band concert at both the Colonial in Pittsfield in July and at Tanglewood in August.
There were undoubtedly many other performances worthy of note, but I’m just one guy and could only get to see and hear so many.
So while the summer is over, that doesn’t mean there aren’t still plenty of things to do in the Berkshires. I recently saw a terrific movie at the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington called Two Days in Paris. If you’re one of the many people wishing Woody Allen would go back to making his early, funny yet angst-filled movies about contemporary romance, this is the film for you. Directed, written by, and starring Julie Delpy, the movie takes place against the romantic background of Paris. Delpy does for Paris what Woody Allen used to do for New York, and it’s very possible that Delpy is our generation’s Woody Allen.
Running down other highlights of the weekend:
• The big news is a full band performance by Suzanne Vega at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington on Sunday at 7. Vega is best known for her highly literate lyrics and her eclectic folk-pop arrangements, as heard in songs like “Tom’s Diner” and her greatest hit, “Luka.” It’s very possible, however, that her most recent album, Beauty and Crime, a post-9/11 love letter to her native New York, contains some of the best work of her career.
• As part of the ongoing Festival of Books at the Spencertown Academy, Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine present “An Evening of Word Jazz” at 7:30 tonight.
• Whiskey-voiced singer-songwriter Garnet Rogers kicks off this season’s Railway Café folk series at MCLA Gallery 51 in North Adams tonight at 7:30.
• Dougie Maclean, the famed Scottish folk singer and storyteller, performs in the Hilltown Music sereies at Memorial Hall in Shelburne Falls tomorrow night at 7:30.
• The Manhattan String Quartet performs works by Debussy and Smetana in the Music and More series at the New Marlborough Meeting House tomorrow at 4:30.
• The world renowned Emerson String Quartet is at South Mountain Concerts in Pittsfield on Sunday afternoon, in a program featuring works by Haydn and Beethoven among others.
• The Barrington Jazz Quartet is at the Sandisfield Arts Center tomorrow at 8.
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