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Weekend Cultural Highlights
5.28.09
Berkshire Playwrights Lab co-directors [photo by Diana Levine/Courtesy Berkshire Living]
It’s a busy weekend of cultural activity here in the Berkshires, starting Friday night, when the Berkshire’s newest theater company, the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, kicks off its summer season of staged readings with a big gala performance at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington.
Among the playwrights whose new works are being featured are Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet, Eric Bogosian of Talk Radio fame, the Berkshires’ own Joan Ackermann, and Larry Gelbart, best known for writing the musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and the TV series, M*A*S*H.
Actors reading the short plays include Karen Allen, Tony Award-winner Elizabeth Franz, Dan Lauria, David Rasche, and Peter Riegert. Show starts at 8.
Proceeds from the Gala Season Opening will benefit the Berkshire Playwrights Lab Free Staged Reading Series, which will take place on Wednesdays at 8 throughout the summer at the Mahaiwe.
The new company, dedicated to encouraging, developing, and presenting new plays, was founded in 2006 by theater professionals Joe Cacaci, Bob Jaffe, Jim Frangione, and Matthew Penn.
To purchase tickets call 413-528-0010, or purchase online www.mahaiwe.org. For more information about this new organization, see www.berkshireplaywrightslab.org.
Then on Saturday night at the Mahaiwe, the Close Encounters with Music series presents its second of two programs Celebrating Mendelssohn…and Discovering Eduard Franck, on the occasion of the former’s 200th anniversary.
This gala tribute to Mendelssohn's inner circle begins at 6 and features works by Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, and the American premiere of Eduard Franck’s String Sextet in E-flat major, Op. 41.
Joining artistic director and cellist Yehuda Hanani for this performance are violinist Yehonatan Berick; pianist James Tocco; and the Avalon String Quartet.
Formed in 1995 at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Avalon came to the fore after participating in Isaac Stern’s Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall in 1997, which led to invitations to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and Stern’s Chamber Music Encounters in Jerusalem. They are in residence at Northern Illinois University, a position formerly occupied by the distinguished Vermeer Quartet, and perform annually in Chicago and DeKalb, as well as at Alice Tully, the 92nd St Y and Carnegie Hall in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; at Caramoor, Mostly Mozart and Ravinia festivals; and at the La Jolla Chamber Music Society and the Isabella Gardner Museum.
For tickets and information, visit www.mahaiwe.org or www.cewm.org, or call the Mahaiwe box office at 413-528-0100.
The Avalon Quartet will perform at CEWM's Mendelssohn tribute at the Mahaiwe this Saturday evening. [photo courtesy CEWM]
At Shakespeare and Company, artistic director and company cofounder Tina Packer reprises one of her most beloved roles in the one woman show, Shirley Valentine, kicking off this summer’s Diva Series at the Lenox theater company this weekend.
Packer performed Willy Russel’s Shirley Valentine to critical acclaim in Boston several times in the late 1980’s, at Shakespeare & Company in 1991, and again in 1995.
Shirley Valentine follows the poignant and often hysterically funny story of a dowdy working class British housewife and her journey to self-discovery by way of the Greek islands. Romeo and Juliet also continues its run at Shakespeare this weekend. For more information, call 413-637-3353 or visit www.shakespeare.org.
Tina Packer as Shirley Valentine [photo by Sean McLaughlin/Courtesy Shakespeare & Company]
Barrington Stage Company’s favorite boy band, the Bacon Brothers, featuring actor Kevin Bacon and his composer brother, Michael, make their Pittsfield debut on Saturday night at 8.
The Bacon Brothers play mainstream American rock n’ roll tinged with blues, country, pop, folk, and reggae. This show kicks off BSC’s summer concert series, which also includes Amanda McBroom on July 2 and 3, and Shirley Jones on July 6.
For more info, visit www.barringtonstageco.org or call the BSC Box Office at (413) 236-8888.
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