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Weekend Highlights
5.7.09
Chris Botti is at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Mass., Friday, May 8, at 8 pm. [Courtesy Colomby Group]
This Mother’s Day weekend, the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield has programmed a veritable festival of one-women plays, called WAY THE HECK OFF BROADWAY.
Tonight’s program, at 7, is called Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein. Written by Marty Martin and starring Bonnie Gable, the play is set in 1938 in Stein's legendary Paris apartment, from where she reminisces about her California childhood, her life in Paris, and her discovery of her life partner, Alice B. Toklas. Also included are stories about friends like Pablo Picasso, Isadora Duncan, Ernest Hemingway, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and other members of the "Lost Generation".
Saturday night’s program at 8 is devoted to Fanny Kemble. Adapted by Bonnie Gable from Kemble's own words, the play stars Amy Judd as the celebrated 19th century actress-writer. While on a tour of America, she falls in love with and marries Pierce Butler. Much to her chagrin, she discovers that the source of her husband's wealth is a Georgian plantation with over 800 slaves. Seeking a divorce, she loses the custody of her two young children and is allowed to see them once a year right here in Lenox. While awaiting the verdict of the NY critics on her new career, she must decide between following her conscience or ever seeing her children again.
The weekend series wraps on Sunday, Mother’s Day, with The Life of Emily Dickinson at 2pm, starring Broadway actress Barbara Sims, quoting from Dickinson's letters, poems, and excerpts from William Luce's "The Belle of Amherst," all of which reveal the poet to have been a humorous, passionate, witty, and unique individual.
Once again, Way the Heck off Broadway, tonight through Sunday, at Pittsfield’s Colonial Theater.
Jazz fans will thrill to the sounds of trumpeter Chris Botti, who commands the stage at the Mahaiwe Theater in Great Barrington tonight at 8. Botti is one of those rare virtuoso performers as comfortable collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma, Andrea Bocelli, Aerosmith, Sting, or Branford Marsalis – a crossover performer who can play pop, jazz, and classical with equal fluency.
Tonight at Club Helsinki, living folk-blues legend Chris Smither, a singer, songwriter and guitarist who has reigned supreme since the heyday of the folk revival in the mid-1960s, returns to Club Helsinki. The New Orleans native who has called New England home for many years is a commanding solo performer, whether he’s offering an old Robert Johnson or Chuck Berry song or one of his own well-honed compositions.
Up at MCLA's Gallery 51 in North Adams tonight, singer-songwriters Anne Heaton and Chuck E. Costa hold forth tonight in the Railway Café series.
And on Monday, Williams College student musicians along with Williams faculty and staff, will tackle Terry Riley's IN c, the founding work of modern minimalism, at 12:15pm on the front steps of Chapin Hall. This groundbreaking work was recently given a command performance by an all-star ensemble of new-music talent led by the Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall. Every performance of IN c is different; although the piece is composed, it gives leeway to the musicians to play certain things for lengths of times determined by the musicians themselves. Every ensemble that plays the piece is different, too, in the composition of its instrumentation. Riley’s “In C” is in some ways the DNA of minimalism, which was further elaborated most notably in the work of Philip Glass and Steve Reich. That’s Mondy at Williams College at 12:15 on the steps of Chapin Hall; the ensemble will move inside in case of inclement weather.
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