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things we learned while putting this issue together

Shaker community: Mother Rebecca Cox

Family history: Chester Theatre Company’s

Jackson, a free Black woman born in 1795, was given a dispensation to create her own Shaker community in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Shaker community was urban, mostly Black, and mostly women.

production of “Now Circa Then,” examines our relationship with history — our own and other’s. And the play also shows how no matter where you are in history, there is humanity and a story worth telling.

“Shaker worship through dance,” page 4

“Play finds breath in history,” page 6

More than just a hemline: Fashion, according to Susan Jerome, collections manager of the University of Rhode Island’s Textile and Costume Collection, changes with the times.

During the 1920s, hemlines rose and women showed off their silk stockings. During the Great Depression, dresses got longer again to hide bare legs.

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Beat the heat with one of the many fun summer activities planned this weekend in the Berkshries. Full events calendar, pages 12-22.

“How fashion reflects social change,” page 8

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“Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow,” opens today at Clark Art Institute, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

While you’re there, check out “Art’s Biggest Stage: Collecting the Venice Biennale, 2007–2019” also opening today, 225 South St., Williamstown.

Bring your little ones to the Dalton American Legion Field for the Zerbini Family Circus, with shows 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday, July 7, Route 9, Dalton. $15, children $7 at the door.

Aston Magna will present “The Birth of the String Quartet: Castello, Caldara, Purcell, Telemann, Richter, Mozart and Haydn,” 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 5, at Time and Space in Hudson, N.Y. and 6 p.m. Saturday, July 6, at Saint James Place, 352 Main St., Great Barrington.

Let cabaret singers Ron and Samantha entertain you 7 p.m. Saturday, July 6, during a Saturday Night Cabaret Train with Berkshire Scenic Railway, departing from Adams Station, 3 Hoosac St., Adams. Bring your own drinks.

Tickets are $25.

Celebrate your Fourth of July at Tanglewood with James Taylor and his all-star band, 8 p.m. today, followed by fireworks, 297 West St., Lenox.

Tickets: $28-$115.

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Tony-winning “Parade” and “Bridges of Madison County” composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown will perform at 8 p.m., Monday, July 8, at Barrington Stage Company’s BoydQuinson Mainstage.

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CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY

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Catch fireworks tonight at one of these area celebrations or cheer on your neighbors at the parades: tonight, Joe Wolfe Field, 310 State St., North Adams.

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- Shakespeare & Company’s Annual Fourth of July Community Celebration: “We Hold These Truths,” with

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music, children’s crafts and activities, and a public reading of The Declaration of Independence, 1:30 to 5 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.

ent and Future,” kicks off at 10 a.m., today.

- Annual Williamtown Theatre Festival Reading: 1:30 p.m. today Williamstown Theater Festival actors read The Declaration of Independence and more. Gather on the library quad west of Williams College’s Sawyer Library.

- Fireworks display: after 8 p.m. James Taylor concert at Tanglewood.

NORTH ADAMS - An evening of all-American fun: the annual Fourth of July SteepleCats game and fireworks, which start immediately afterward, at approximately 9:30 p.m.

- Annual parade, theme: “The Berkshires – Past, Pres- Pittsfield Suns v. Nashua Silver Knights: 6:30 p.m.tonight, followed by Light Up the 4th Fireworks, 105 Wahconah St., Pittsfield.

SALEM, N.Y. - Salem Art and Plow Fest: annual festival celebrating agriculture and the arts, with an annual parade, arts and craft vendors and more, all day, parade at 5 p.m. today, Main Street, Salem, N.Y.

- Family activities on Spring Street: today, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., with an artisan market from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Green, the Hometown Parade, 11 a.m. from Southworth Street to Spring Street, followed by the community barbecue and Capital Brass Concert.

Fireworks at 9:30 p.m. at Taconic Golf Club.

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REGGIE WILSON

Shaker worship, African diaspora THROUGH A POSTMODERN DANCE LENS

BY CHRISTOPHER MARCISZ Eagle correspondent

There are many things that leap to mind when we think about the Shakers — their communal country communities, their elegantly functional architecture and design, their piousness and celibacy. But there is more that is often overlooked, like how seriously they took physical movement, especially the ecstatic rhythmic whirling and dancing that led outsiders to give them the name still commonly used — and that they were rigorously egalitarian and inclusive regardless of ethnicity.

It is the confluence of those last two that first got choreographer Reggie Wilson’s attention. In particular, when he first heard the story years ago about a community of Black Shakers in the middle 1800s, an alignment of surprising insights that was too tempting to pass up.

“I think my mind exploded a little bit,” Wilson said during a phone interview last week. “I don’t know how much of a capacity I had to put those two seeming opposites together.”

Now, after years of detailed research about Shaker lives, along with his own deep understanding of African diaspora movement traditions, Wilson and his Fist and Heel Performance Group bring their investigations to the Berkshires with a series of productions.

It begins Saturday, July 6, a Hancock Shaker Village, with a presentation of his work “…they stood shaking, while others began to shout,” which has been adapted for a roving performance in the Round Stone Barn and the 1910 Barn. The following week, Jacob’s Pillow will host the premiere of Wilson’s evening-length piece “POWER,” based on similar source ma-

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Choreographer Reggie Wilson said his “mind exploded a little bit” when he learned of a Black Shaker community in existence in the 1800s. terial, which tries to imagine the intersection of Shaker dance worship with the shout traditions of the African diaspora, all considered through experimental postmodern dance.

“I consider [Reggie] to be equal parts choreographer, anthropologist and ethnographer,” said Jacob’s Pillow Director Pamela Tatge. “He’s noted for the depth and extent he researches his subject

before he enters into it.”

Diving deep into history and exploring how its themes find physical movement has been a major part of his work. For his 2016 piece “Citizen,” he began from an image

of an African-born slave who fought in the Haitian Revolution and was elected to the French National Convention to consider themes of belonging and not belonging. His 2013 piece “Moses(es),” which was performed at Jacob’s Pillow in 2014, is inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s retelling of the story of Moses to consider the migration of African people around the world.

His current work is inspired by the story of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson, a free Black woman born in 1795, who in her 30s found her calling as a wandering preacher.

Her travels eventually led her to the Shaker community in Watervliet, N.Y., where she was given a dispensation to create her own Shaker community back home in Philadelphia. It was a community that ran counter to the familiar quick-take story about

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Choreographer Reggie Wilson said his “mind exploded a little bit” when he learned of a Black Shaker community in existence in the 1800s.

three vocalists (including Wilson).

Hancock Shaker Village Director Jennifer Trainer Thompson said that Wilson had been visiting the Village before they even knew about this project, and were eager to welcome him and help the company as they “wanted to absorb the place” by exploring the archives and asking questions.

“One of the goals of Hancock Shaker Village is to realize that this is not just a living history museum,” she said. “It’s an embodiment of all their values and what they stand for and the fact that they are still living.”

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What: Reggie Wilson’s “…they stood shaking, while others began to shout” Where: Hancock Shaker Village, 1843 West Housatonic St., Pittsfield When: 2 p.m. Saturday, July 6 Cost: Tickets are $30 ($10 members) and include free all-day admission. Kids 12 and under, free.

Information: hancockshakervillage.org

REGGIE WILSON/FIST AND HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP Presenting the world premiere of POWER, fueled by research at Hancock Shaker Village.

D O R I S D U K E T H E AT R E W E D–S AT 8:15P M, S AT & S U N 2:15P M | T I C K E T S S TA RT AT $35

*** What: World premiere of Pillow-commissioned “POWER,” Reggie Wilson’s Fist and Heel Performance Group’s new evening-length work Where: Doris Duke Theatre, Jacob’s Pillow, 358 George Carter Road, Becket When: Performances July 10-14 Cost: $35, $45 Information: jacobspillow.org tions over the years.”

Even if Wilson doesn’t share the spiritual purpose of dance, he has great respect for the way they made it a central part of their lives. That Shakers saw dances as divine gifts that they could receive and share with one another, and that physical movement is a way to find meaning and inspiration — just as Fist and Heel describes their belief “in the potential of the body as a valid means for knowing.”

“Dance is important and always has been,” Wilson said.

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view. He remembered being especially fascinated with their herb gardens.

“Just the practicalness of it starts to crack open your imagination,” he said.

From there, they began to add their own background and knowledge to the process. Wilson has built a deep understanding of the dance and movement traditions of the African diaspora, which he has researched at length in trips to the American South, the Caribbean, and across Africa. He describes his company as engaging in “Post-African Neo HooDoo Modern Dance,” a phrase he admits that can be as expansive and hard to define for themselves as it would be to define Black Shaker worship.

“It’s a bit of a crapshoot,” he said. “But let’s make some educated guesses.”

Wilson is originally from Milwaukee, and he grew up in a Black church and regularly saw folks having charismatic religious experiences, even if he and his family didn’t. But he said his approach to dance has always been formed by the postmodern, experimental scene he found when he moved to New York in the 1980s.

“I’ve always been thinking about how to fold together and think about the parallels between religious movement expression — primarily by how Black folks on the planet do it — and its relationship to postmodern dance,” he said.

“That has set up some interesting experiments and ques-

In addition to the performances of “POWER” at Jacobs Pillow July 10-14 at the Doris Duke Theater, Wilson and his company are planning a free Community Ring Shout at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield on Monday, July 8, described as a “stimulating, transformative sing-a-long for participants to restore and connect their rhythmic voices and bodies” through tales and songs from Africa and the African diaspora.

The performance at Hancock Village has been performed in other spaces, such as St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery.

It features eight dancers and

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Shakers, who are often simplistically seen as similar to the Amish or Quakers. The Philadelphia Shaker community was urban, mostly Black, and mostly women.

“Being confronted with the idea of a Black Shaker was too [enticing] a door to not knock on and go in,” he said.

On a visit to Jacob’s Pillow in 2017, many people reminded him about the Berkshires deep Shaker history, and he began exploring and thinking about it more. That led to two residencies in the area over the past year through Pillow Lab, one in the fall where he and the company spent time at Hancock Shaker Village digging into archives, objects, and simply being Shaker space, and a technical residency in the spring to create a dance around their findings.

To create the dances, Wilson digs deep into what life may have been like in a free Black community at the time, and then to imagine how they may have danced. Wilson calls his approach “kinesthetic anthropology,” or “thinking about the movement and action of humans in different communities, cultures, and ethnicities.”

It isn’t easy. “Dance over history is difficult to reconstruct,” he said. “Whether it is a romantic ballet or a modern dance classic from the 1930s, [it’s] always challenging.”

Although the Shakers were meticulous record-keepers, the nature of their dance practice could vary widely.

There are reports and accounts of worship, along with footwork-patterns and images. But there was great variety depending on time and space — a dance in Kentucky would be different than one in Maine, depending on the individuals in the community, what the standards of propriety may have been, and whether they were a young, new community or an aging one.

That’s where a lot of the practical research came in, and why he brought the company to spend time at Hancock. He described the architecture and the sense of space, and the unexpected windows into their world

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CHESTER THEATRE COMPANY

Play ‘finds breadth in history’ ‘Now Circa Then’ on stage now through July 14

BY KATHERINE ABBOTT Eagle correspondent

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Luke Hofmaier and Lilli Hokama star in Chester Theatre’s production of “Now Circa Then,” a play by Carly Mensch.

ten off the train in a city of strangers, wanting to test her strength.

“Sometimes, I get overwhelmed,” she tells Gideon one night after hours, “… that I’m never going to achieve my full potential as a human being on this earth.”

She has just started working with him. They are re-enactors at the Tenement Museum on the lower East Side, playing Julian and Josephine Glockner, who came to New York in 1890 from a small river town in what is now the Ukraine.

Lilli Hokama, as Margie, and Luke Hofmaier, as Gideon, are looking for a clearer future in “Now Circa Then,” on stage beginning today through July 14 at Chester Theater.

“Margie is a recent transplant to New York from Michigan,” Hokama said.

Before now, she has not found museums familiar places. She is an English major, adventurous, young, surging into the world beyond her small town.

Gideon is just as young, arrogant and gentle, and he is beginning to feel that his familiar structures have limits that he is only now starting to see.

“Gideon is a self-described hardcore history buff,” Hofmaier said. “He takes it seri-

ously.”

He has performed roles in Gettysburg, the Boston Fire of 1872, Plymouth, a living history farm in Iowa.

“Gideon is confident in his alter-ego, but he doesn’t examine himself,” Hofmaier said. “He is ignorant about his own past. He keeps putting it on the side. He has avoided it for emotional reasons, and maybe he finds himself not as interesting as these people. They have faced real adversity. They come from somewhere.”

He finds history in day-today things, Hofmaier said. He can find stories in objects and small interactions — who made a wooden clock. How

the rising cost of potatoes strains a tight household budget. Gideon is a homebody.

He grew up in New York, Hofmaier said, and he has stayed there. And he is drawn to Julian, who traveled in steerage across the Atlantic and risked diseases on the boat, and had his mattress stolen as soon as he landed, and met obstacles, heartache and death. Gideon finds meaning in the struggle and a bond in it.

Julian is in love with his wife and proud to show it, Hofmaier said. He is newly married, ambitious and working to build a new life.

Margie can understand that striving. She wants to do something big, Hokama said.

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But as she learns Josephine’s story, Margie develops an appreciation for the past. Eating lunch out of a vending machine and looking for a place to sleep for more than a few nights, Margie feels a clear connection with Josephine as she works late in her cramped apartment, facing a tenement landlord and the rising cost of cheap cuts of meat.

“Margie discovers her, over the course of the play,” Hokama said. “Josephine takes over the family business after her husband’s death and runs it successfully. She raises five children.”

As she and Gideon spar over what history looks like, how to tell it and who speaks, Hokama hears Margie saying, “Why does it matter that I’m not a white, Jewish, Eastern European woman — why can’t I tell her story?”

And Margie begins to tell the story in new ways, raw and blunt ways. She finds anguish in events that touched Josephine’s life, like the Triangle Factory Fire.

“Margie finds breadth in

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She begins to understand the social, political and economic forces that effected Josephine and the people around her.

“Margie has this monologue about how everyone’s trying to go to New York City,” Hokama said. “It’s a hub — which it is — but as she’s going through the public library, she realizes a lot of people also leave. There’s an ebb and flow. It’s a port

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“The story of his life is as important as others,” Hofmaier said, “and it is important to live your own life.”

Exploring the role has made him think.

“I don’t know my own family history that well,” he said, “and why don’t I? Seeing how passionate these characters are about history … speaking as a white man, I don’t say ‘I’m German,’ or ‘I’m of Irish or Scottish descent.’”

“People probably don’t ask,” Hokama said.

He agreed. “I need to examine my own history more.

That’s the life we’re living right now. The answers for how to live now.”

Hokama considered.

“I’m not a history buff,” she said, “and Margie isn’t either. What struck me and Margie … is that these people are still fighting for the same things we are — to understand our purpose, what they have to know to survive each day, all they live through.

They struggle, and they have joy too. No matter what part of history you’re in, there’s so much humanity in everyone’s story.”

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for the world. She had to go to New York to find herself and figure this stuff out, and Gideon has to leave New York to figure himself out.”

They are both young. They can make choices that hurt themselves and each other.

They can be immature. They can drop into insults and stereotypes and caricature, consciously or unconsciously, and they can get called on it sometimes.

“We’re in an uncomfortable place and time,” Hokama said, “and we’ll make mistakes. It’s OK to sit with that discomfort, because it means we’re trying. It keeps it real. These characters speak wrongly or ignorantly about things.”

History becomes broader for Gideon too, and the idea can frighten him.

“Gideon’s been resting on this obsession with history,” Hofmaier said. “He wants an order to the past, to say we know this happened. The future is uncertain, dangerous and scary. You might not like it.”

But that breadth can release him, as well.

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She wants to live fully, in this world, in this time.

The past is weighted, and she does not want it to get in her way.

“Margie thinks history is bulls--t,” Hokama said, quoting: “It’s not important. Why are we not writing our own stories right now?”

Margie is from a small town in the Midwest — she defines her heritage as eating corn on the cob and watching Harrison Ford movies. Hokama can understand Margie’s tension and drive.

“As a woman of color growing up in a white area, I knew I was different, but I didn’t always know why,” she said.

Like Margie’s, Hokama’s family and hometown and culture are mainstream American. Her father’s family survived the internment camps in World War II, she said, when Japanese American families were forced from their homes. After that isolation, her family dropped all of their Japanese culture intentionally. They would eat only American food — they would be American in every

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VENTFORT HALL TEA AND TALK

How fashion reflects social changes

BY JENNIFER HUBERDEAU The Berkshire Eagle

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lines and heel heights are indicative of global economic health.

In the 1920s, hemlines were raised as the economy soared and women showed off their silk stockings. But when the stock market crashed, hemlines plummeted too, hiding legs of women who could no longer afford stockings.

The opposite is true of heels, which creep higher and higher in height during a financial downturn.

“The first thing I like to tell people is that fashions change during great economic, social and/or political upheaval.

That’s when you often start seeing a dramatic change in the way people dress,” said Susan Jerome, collections manager of the University of Rhode Island’s Textile and Costume Collection, during a recent interview.

Jerome will speak about fashions worn during the time period of the popular television series “Downton Abbey,” as part of her visual presentation and lecture, “Downton Abbey Style: The Influences on Fashion, 1912 – 1925,” 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, at Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum.

“It’s a very interesting time period because of so many issues,” she said. “From 1912 to 1925, you not only have World War I, but you have women both in England and in the

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Information: 413-637-3206, gildedage.org United States being able to vote and, that, really is indicative of a lot of social changes taking place at that time. You see it reflected in women’s fashions, particularly from 1912 to the mid-1920s.”

Also impacting a change in fashion in the early 20th century was the death of Queen Victoria and the beginning of her son King Edward’s reign, which ended a period of societal restraint.

“He really reflects a loosening of social constraints that you see in clothing,” she said. “You can see that people, through fashion, are experimenting with different looks.”

And more changes came with World War I, which saw more women, especially in England, taking over jobs traditionally held by men.

“That leads to changes in the way society looks at

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Costumes from “Downton Abbey,” seen here at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, will be the subject of a Tea and Talk at Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum. women; women being able to vote and such,” Jerome said.

“The 1920s is a really interesting time period, because it’s a great time of change in the United States, as more people start to live in cities than in the country. We begin to become an urban country, not an agricultural and rural country.”

At the same time, women’s clothing changed dramatically when a certain garment — the corset — went out of fashion. Without the corset pushing and prodding women into sculpted forms, designers were faced with the challenge of making clothes for the female form, resulting in both the invention of the brassiere and the drop-waist dress.

“Suddenly, the shape you wanted to have was quite up and down, almost as if female form was almost hidden. You see that not only in the flapper dresses, which almost seem to not have a waist, but also in the rise of the ability to make knit garments. We also see the arrival of the skirt,” Jerome said.

And with the rise of the middle class and an increase in leisure time, she said, the industry began producing both casual clothing and

sportswear.

The talk will also touch on changes in men’s fashion and discuss the influences of

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BE-A-BETTER GARDENER

Midsummer care for annuals through the moistened soil easily but stop when it encounters the dry soil below.

Fertilization is also important. If you fertilized with an organic, slow-release fertilizer at planting time, that may carry the annuals through the whole season. If, however, you applied a synthetic fertilizer then, chances are that growth will lag by midsummer, requiring a renewed application now. Container plantings, with their restricted root run, have a particular need for fertilization and should be fed with a half-strength dose of some water-soluble fertilizer every couple of weeks.

Deadheading is another chore that is needed to keep annuals blooming. Most annuals will shift gears once they have set seed, and cease producing new blossoms. Accordingly, you should pinch off the fading flowers before they can bear seed to keep the plant in bloom. If you find this chore tiresome, next spring make a point of planting annual cultivars labeled as “self-cleaning,” which means that the plants are sterile, incapable of setting seed and so without the need for deadheading.

After putting on an extravagant display in June, spring-planted annuals are likely to be looking ratty by midsummer. This may be a response to heat, which can be fatal to such cool-loving spring annuals as nemophilas (also known as “baby blue eyes”) or garden lobelias (Lobelia erinus).

In other cases, though, it may simply be a sign that the plants are in need of renewal.

Petunias, for example, tend to grow leggy, with flowers borne only at the end of long stems. Cut a fifth of these stems back to leaves close to the main stem, and new shoots will emerge, at which point you can shorten the rest, returning the plants to a compact and floriferous form. Other thread-bare annuals may be cut back by as much as a third with a sharp pair of shears.

No other plants I can think of return so much in flowers for such a small investment of time and resources. A little timely care at midsummer, and you should be enjoying your annuals bloom right through into fall.

Be-a-Better-Gardener is a community service of Berkshire Botanical Garden, located in Stockbridge. Thomas Christopher is the co-author of “Garden Revolution” (Timber press, 2016) and is a volunteer at Berkshire Botanical Garden. berkshirebotanical.org.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN

Annuals like petunias benefit from midsummer care. When they get leggy and only produce flowers at the end of their long stems, cut a fifth of these stems back to leaves close to the main stem, and new shoots will emerge.

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My mentor in annual growing and design, Michael Ruggiero, senior curator at the New York Botanical Garden, always said annuals were the plants that most encouraged experimentation. Mike (now retired, but still teaching horticulture) had grown almost everything in his day from orchids to ferns, but he especially liked annuals because of their quick return on the investment of time and effort. Just a couple of months of very part-time work could turn a few packets of seeds into a flourishing garden’s-worth of flowers.

That meant, said Mike, you could try out any wild design idea with annuals. Maybe the results would be great — and Mike’s annual border at the Botanical Garden campus in The Bronx was the talk Thomas Christopher of New York’s gardeners every summer. And if your idea didn’t work, if you didn’t like the results? What had you lost? Just step on it, Mike would say, demonstrating with a large, booted foot, and plant some other annuals. Unlike perennial borders, which take a couple of years at least to mature, the new annuals would be in full bloom again by fall.

Annuals do need some special care, though, especially now, at midsummer.

Gardeners who were raised on perennials often find annuals challenging, for the two types of flowers demand very different kinds of care. When growing perennials, the goal is thrifty plants, plants that will bloom, but which will reserve enough energy in the roots to over-winter successfully and return from dormancy the following year. Annuals, by contrast are like racehorses: they must go fast for they last but a season. You have to push annuals, giving them abundant resources. Consistent watering is essential, especially in hot, dry midsummer weather, when you must moisten the soil thoroughly, to a depth of at least eight inches, a couple of times a week. You can tell how deeply the soil has been moistened, by the way, by pushing a dowel down into it; the dowel will slip

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursdays: Hootenanny night, $5, $3 members, music begins at 7 p.m.

CHESTER COMMON TABLE

Troubadour Series

30 Main St., Chester

Doors open at 6 p.m., shows start at 8 p.m.

413-354-1076, chestercommontable.com Friday, July 5: Jack Waldheim, 8 p.m.

CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON 405 Columbia St., Hudson, N.Y. helsinkihudson.ticketfly.com Friday, July 5: All-Star Little League Benefit Concert with Guilty Pleasure, Cowboys in the Campfire, Dust Bowl Faeries and Jesse Malin, $20-$25, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 6: Eilen Jewell, $20$30, 9 p.m.

DREAM AWAY LODGE 1342 County Road, Becket thedreamawaylodge.com Thursday, July 4: Milton, 8 to 10 p.m.

Friday, July 5: Viking Moses, 8 to 10 p.m.

Friday, July 5: Roan Yellowthorn, $25, $20 members.

Saturday, July 6: Jim Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur, $30, $25 members MISSION RESTAURANT 438 North St., Pittsfield missionberkshires.com Thursday, July 4: Picky Bastards, 8 p.m.

Monday, July 8: Andy Wrba and Friends, 7 to 10 p.m.

NUMBER 10 10 Castle St., Great Barrington numbertengb.com Friday, July 5: Putnam Family Trio, 7 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, July 6: Rich Syracuse and Mike Musillami, 7 to 10 p.m.

RACE BROOK LODGE

Saturday, July 6: Johnny Irion, 8 to 10 p.m.

864 S. Undermountain Road, Sheffield

THE EGREMONT BARN

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The Egremont Village Inn,

Friday, July 5: Barnspace Concert, Relaxation Sound Immersion, $20, 8 to 10:30 p.m.

17 Main St., South Egremont 413-528-1570, theegremontbarn. com Friday, July 5: Grateful Dread, $15, 8 to 11 p.m.

Saturday, July 6: Paper Anniversary, $10, 8 to 11 p.m.

GATEWAYS INN 51 Walker St., Lenox 413-637-2532, gatewaysinn.com Shows begin at 7:30 p.m., $15 minimum food/beverage purchase per person suggested.

Thursday, July 4: Rob Kelly.

Friday, July 5: Mark Kelso, Sherri Howard.

Saturday, July 6: Rob Kelly, Courtney Shayne.

Monday, July 8: Kevin Smith.

Tuesday, July 9: Benny Kohn.

THE GUTHRIE CENTER 2 Van Deusenville Road, Great Barrington

STATIONERY FACTORY 63 Flansburg Ave., Dalton stationery-factory.com 413-659-6299 Sunday, July 7: David Bromberg Quintet, $43-$55, 8 p.m.

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THE EGREMONT BARN The Egremont Village Inn, 17 Main St., South Egremont 413-528-1570, theegremontbarn. com Sunday, July 7: Karaoke, 7:30 to 10 p.m.

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CALENDAR

BUSHNELL-SAGE LIBRARY

ART

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7 Railroad Ave., Chatham, N.Y. amusechatham.com

CHESTERWOOD

Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Thursday to Saturday, noon to 4 p.m.

Sunday.

4 Williamsville Road, Stockbridge 413-298-3579, chesterwood.org Hours: Open daily through Oct. 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Guided tours depart at 11 a.m., noon, 1 and 2 p.m. Open touring from 10 to 11 a.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. Grounds-only pass available.

Through July 28: Peter Dellert, “imMaterial reActions.”

ART OMI 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, N.Y.

Thursday, July 4: Chesterwood’s buildings and grounds available for open touring until 7 p.m. with sunset woodland walks and wine on the piazza, with admission.

518-392-4747, artomi.org On view: “Gold,” Katharine Bernhardt; “Untitled (Mobile),” Virginia Overton; “Somos 11 Millones / We Are 11 Million,” Andrea Bowers; “Eureka,” Brian Tolle; “Untitled,” Christopher Wool; “Day Trip,” Sarah Braman; “To Be Of Use,” David Shrigley; “Oculi,” Aleksandr Mergold; “International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, Configuration 29, End of the American Dream: Noam Chomsky, Jim Jones, Martin Luther King, Edward Snowden, Joe Stack, Donna Haraway,” Goshka Macuga; “Prismatic,” Hou de Sousa, and more.

June 24 - Aug. 2: Camp Omi, for ages 6-13, $395 per week, $370 for two or more weeks, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sunday, July 7: Artists brunch, mingle with the 30 international artists-in-residence, $50, $40 members, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Artists’ Open Studios, free, 1 to 5 p.m.

BECKET ARTS CENTER 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket 413-623-6635, becketartscenter.org June 22 - July 7: “Exhibition 1,” highlighting the work of Ben Mancino, Marguerite Bride, Patricia Hogan, Joseph Tracy and Sean McCusker.

BERKSHIRE ART MUSEUM 159 E. Main St., North Adams 413-664-9550, BAMuseum.org

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Friday, July 5: Opening reception for artist of the month Margaret Buchte, 5 to 7 p.m.

aMUSE GALLERY

June 24 - Aug. 2: Artgarten, for ages 4-5, $395 per week, $370 for two or more weeks, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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48 Main St., Sheffield

Summer hours: Noon to 5 p.m.

Wednesday to Sunday.

Admission: $5, $3 seniors, students and children ages 6-12, free for Berkshire County residents, children and donors.

On view: Eric Rudd’s Iceberg Installation, Robotic Sculpture, and “Berkshire Art Museum Annex – A Chapel for Humanity,” a massive sculptural epic with 150 life-sized figures, 250

Weekends in July: Sculpture classes with the New England Sculptors Association. Registration is required. Check online for further information.

CLARK ART INSTITUTE 225 South St., Williamstown 413-458-2303, clarkart.edu PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE CLARK ART INSTITUTE

“Creation,” 1936 by Ida O’Keeffe is on display in a new exhibit at The Clark, starting July 4. low-relief ceiling figures and a Sept.

11 Memorial Garden, first opened in 2001. “Not Just Another Pretty Picture” group show; also exhibiting “Dark Matter” and “Death of a Loved One - 1890s Fashion: Collection of Greg Lafave.”

whimsical topiary collection featuring nearly two dozen exotic creatures and other living sculptures, with admission, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

BERKSHIRE ARTS FESTIVAL

413-443-7171, berkshiremuseum. org

Ski Butternut, Route 23 Great Barrington berkshiresartsfestival.com July 5 - 7: 18th year, 175 exhibitors, and introducing more than 40 new artists. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Admission: $14, children under 12 free, $16 weekend pass. Harpeth Rising performs at 4 and 6 p.m., $28 includes admission.

BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN 5 W. Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge 413-298-3926, berkshirebotanical.org June 1 - Sept. 30: “Shimmering Flowers: Nancy Lorenz’s Lacquer and Bronze Landscapes,” with admission, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

June 1 - Oct. 11: “Contained Exuberance,” with admission, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

June 9 - Oct. 11: Lucy’s Garden, a

BERKSHIRE MUSEUM 39 South St., Pittsfield

Ongoing: Animals of the World in Miniature, Aquarium, Berkshire Backyard, Curiosity Incubator, Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation, Rocks and Minerals, Window on the World.

Through July 28: “BerkshireNow: John MacDonald.” This solo show of atmospheric landscapes by accomplished artist John MacDonald reflects his love of the craft of painting, depicting the beauty of nature in all seasons.

Through Sept. 8: “Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion.” Experience genius in motion at Berkshire Museum as you use cranks, levers and pulleys to test Leonardo’s inventions, marvel at his flying machines, and step inside his wooden battle tank. Each mechanism in the exhibit was constructed based on Leonardo da Vinci’s Renaissance drawings, using the tools and materials available during his time. A Feigenbaum Innovative Experience, sponsored by the Feigenbaum Foundation.

Through Sept. 29: “Objects and Their Stories: Shoes.” Step into the history, technology and fashion of footwear from around the world as illustrated by moccasins, sandals, clogs and more from the museum’s collection.

Through Sept. 8: “Amy Myers: The Opera Inside the Atom, Large Scale Drawings 2007- 2008.” Explore the world of particle physics at a massive scale through Amy Myers’ largescale, abstract drawings inspired by subatomic phenomena and the unpredictable nature of the universe.

BERNAY FINE ART 325 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington bernayfineart.com Hours: Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

Through Aug. 10: “Summertime,” group show featuring works by Janet Rickus, Joan Griswold, Huguette Martel, Katia Santibanez, Jean Claude Goldberg, Geoff Young, Barbara Takenaga, Sarah Walker, Karin Schaefer, Sandy Litchfield, Marjorie Reid, Maggie Mailer, Linda Pochesci, Warner Friedman, Michael Zelehoski, Nadine Robbins, David Ricci and Sandra Byers.

Admission: $20, children under 18 free.

June 8 - Sept. 15: Janet Cardiff’s 2001 sound sculpture, “The Forty Part Motet,” 40 separately-recorded choral parts are played through 40 speakers in a reworking of Thomas Tallis’s 16th-century composition, “Spem in alium” (Hope in any other).

June 8 - Sept. 22: “Renoir: The Body, The Senses.” This daring exhibition is the first major exploration of Renoir’s unceasing interest in the human form. The exhibition reconsiders Renoir as a constantly evolving artist whose style moved from Realism into luminous Impressionism, culminating in the modern classicism of his last decades.

July 4 - Oct. 6: “Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow” brings together 35 paintings, prints, and photographs exploring the artist’s mastery of color and composition, as well as her complex relationship with her well-known sister, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the effect it had on her life and professional aspirations.

July 4 - Oct. 14: “Art’s Biggest Stage: Collecting the Venice Biennale, 2007–2019.” The Clark’s unparalleled collection of material produced for the Venice Biennale explores questions of nationhood, identity and spectacle.

July 6 - Aug. 25: “I Am a Part of Art,” CATA’s annual art exhibit features vibrant paintings, drawings and sculpture created by CATA artists

Tuesdays, July 9- Aug. 31: Open hours, explore the Clark’s permanent collection of prints, drawings and photographs, free, 1 to 4 p.m. Each Tuesday, a changing display related to the next day’s Works on Paper Highlights Talk will be on view.

exhibition, open daily, noon to final curtain, free, Ted Shawn Theatre lobby; “Merce Cunningham: Loops” exhibition, open daily, noon to final curtain, free, Doris Duke Theatre lobby. Jacob’s Pillow Archives/ Norton Owen Reading Room, open Wednesday to Saturday, noon to final curtain, and Sunday to Tuesday, noon to 5 p.m., free.

Gallery Talks

MASS MOCA

July 1 - Aug. 31: Highlights of the Permanent Collection gallery talk, with admission, 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily.

1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams 413-662-2111, massmoca.org Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Monday; Open June 15-Oct 14, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

July 1 - Aug. 31: Docent-led gallery talk exploring “Renoir: The Body, The Senses,” with admission, 10:15 a.m., 1:15 and 3:15 p.m. daily.

Saturday, July 6: “Ida O’Keeffe: Untimely Ambitions and Obstacles Unforeseen” lecture with exhibition curator Sue Canterbury, free, 11 a.m.

Mondays, July 8 - Aug. 31: Reflections Gallery Talk. Following Community Tai Chi, spend the morning in the galleries during Reflections, a weekly gallery experience that invites visitors to look within and approach the familiar from a new perspective, with admission, 10:30 a.m. Registration required: clarkart. edu or 413-458-0524.

Wednesdays, July 10 - Aug. 31: Works on Paper Highlights Talk in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, first-come, first-served, free, 1 p.m. Limited to 20 people.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY ERIC KORENMAN/MASS MOCA

Annie Lennox’s exhibit “Now I Let You Go …” is currenlty on view at Mass MoCA. “Personal Encounters.”

FIRST FRIDAYS ARTWALK Downtown Pittsfield

ArtMaking

413-443-6501

Mondays, July 8 - Aug. 31: Soundscapes - What does a drawing sound like? What does music look like?

Sketch and reflect in “Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet,” with admission, 1 to 4 p.m. Monday.

View a listing and map of all participating artists and locations: FirstFridaysArtswalk.com.

COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS CATAarts.org July 5 - 27: CATA’s Annual Art Show “I Am a Part of Art,” featuring vibrant paintings, drawings and sculpture

by CATA artists with disabilities, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, 28 Renne Ave, Pittsfield.

FERRIN CONTEMPORARY 1315 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams 413-346-4004, ferrincontemporary.com July 6 - Aug. 10: Jason Walker,

Painting demos Friday, July 5: Diane Firtell, mixed media, 11 a.m.

Anderson, Yo-Yo Ma and Natalie Merchant.

HOUSATONIC VALLEY ART LEAGUE 860-542-5078, hvart.org July 4 - Aug. 25: HVAL Juried Art Show and Sale, Thursday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Masonic Temple, 232 Main St., Great Barrington.

MCLA GALLERY 51 51 Main St., North Adams

413-443-0188,

Friday, July 5: HVAL Juried Art Show and Sale wine and refreshments reception, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Masonic Temple, 232 Main St., Great Barrington.

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INSTALLATION SPACE 49 Eagle St., North Adams 49eaglestreet.com

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM

Hours: Open June 20 through Labor Day, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday through Sunday for hourly guided tours. June through Oct. 31, group tours of 15 or more reserved two weeks in advance.

Through Nov. 11: “Borrowed Light,” Barbara Ernst Prey. A new body of watercolors inspired by visits across three seasons where Prey immersed herself in the buildings, historic artifacts and landscape of this site.

Her voice brings new consideration to the visual and haptic experience of this site, historically and today.

June 27 - Aug. 24: Jon Verney, exhibition of framed photographs, altered Polaroids, light-boxes and video projection.

June 27 - Aug. 18: “Time-Link Present.”

9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge

JACOB’S PILLOW

June 20 - Oct. 13: “American Abstract Artists — A Collection: Unseen Works,” featuring over 25 works by Morris & Frelinghuysen’s fellow AAA members and collected from the groundbreaking 1937 exhibit at the Squibb Gallery in New York and later exhibits. Selections from the 1937 show’s catalog, a print portfolio of

Through Nov. 11: “While Mighty Thunders Roll: Popular Artists Sing the Shakers,” explores and expands this musical legacy through a display of historic objects and ephemera shown alongside newly commissioned a capella renditions of Shaker songs performed by a selection of popular musicians including Laurie

Through Aug. 25: “Jacob’s Pillow: Taking Dance Off the Mountain” photography exhibition, 5 p.m. to 1 a.m., at Methuselah Bar & Lounge, 391 North St., Pittsfield.

Ongoing: Norman Rockwell’s 323 Saturday Evening Post covers, ArtZone. Gallery talks daily at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. Daily gallery talks of the museum’s Frank E. Schoonover and Rube Goldberg exhibitions at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

FRELINGHUYSEN MORRIS HOUSE & STUDIO 92 Hawthorne St., Lenox 413-637-0166, frelinghuysen.org

HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE 1843 W. Housatonic St., Pittsfield

358 George Carter Road, Becket 413-243-0745, jacobspillow.org

Through Aug. 25: “Dance We Must: Another Look” exhibition, open daily, noon to final curtain, free, in Blake’s Barn; “Assemblages by Paul Taylor”

413-662-5320, mcla.edu/gallery51

413-298-4100, nrm.org

Through Oct. 27: “For the People: Memories of the Old Corner House,” commemorative installation for the 50th anniversary of the founding of Norman Rockwell Museum at The Old Corner House on Main Street,

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July 6 - Aug. 25: CATA’s Annual Art Show “I Am a Part of Art,” featuring vibrant paintings, drawings and sculpture by CATA artists with disabilities, Clark Art Institute’s Lunder Center at Stone Hill, 227 South St., Williamstown.

Friday, July 5: 18 art exhibitions and opening receptions throughout downtown Pittsfield, 5 to 8 p.m. Most art will be on display throughout the month. Free guided tour beginning at 5 p.m. at the Intermodal Center at BRTA, 1 Columbus Ave.

original lithographs that sold for 50 cents, will also be shown with the paintings they relate to. The AAA was founded in 1936 in NYC at a time when abstract art met with strong critical resistance and few exhibition opportunities existed and paved the way for its eventual acceptance after WWII with Abstract Expressionism.

On view now: Trenton Doyle Hancock, “Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass.” Hancock presents his most ambitious project to date in Mass MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery. Annie Lennox, “Now I Let You Go…” Lennox juxtaposes her public persona with more intimate aspects of her most personal self. Cauleen Smith, “We Already Have What We Need,” colorful, light-infused video installations, conjure sci-fi-inspired visions of utopia, with a concern for our planet and its people. “Suffering From Realness,” examines the human condition through works in all media — some intimate and personal, some transglobal and plainly political. Joe Manning, “Looking at North Adams,” short texts illuminate views through the mill building windows across the museum bringing the city’s history to life. Building 6 features work by artists including James Turrell, Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Laurie Anderson, Gunnar Schonbeck, and more.

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with disabilities, free admission, Hunter Studio, Lunder Center at Stone Hill.

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Stockbridge.

Through Oct. 31: “A Day in The Life: Norman Rockwell’s Stockbridge Studio,” explore Norman Rockwell’s original Stockbridge studio, reinstalled to look as it did in 1960, when the artist was working on his iconic “Golden Rule” painting.

June 8 - Oct. 27: “Woodstock to the Moon: 1969 Illustrated.” Culled from the museum’s collection, and private and public collections around the country, this exhibition illuminates how Rockwell and other illustrators portrayed their times and reflected popular culture during the final year of a tumultuous decade.

June 8 - Oct. 27: “Norman Rockwell: Private Moments for the Masses,” a behind-the-scenes look at the autobiographical elements in Rockwell’s work, examining his carefully constructed fictional scenes for the covers and pages of American publications.

June 8 - Oct. 27: “Inspired: Norman Rockwell and Erik Erikson.” This exhibition will explore the relationship of these two giants in their fields, who inspired each other’s creativity in unique and important ways. Work on view will include images of Erikson’s own art, Rockwell artworks that were directly influenced by Erikson, and

a collection of Rockwell portraits of Erikson and other clinical staff from Austen Riggs. Organized by the museum in collaboration with the Austen Riggs Center, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019.

Saturday, July 6: Home Run! An All American Baseball Day, celebrate baseball on this day of hands-on art making, tours and special presentations; meet players from the Tri City Valley Cats and the Pittsfield Suns, and learn about Rockwell’s many baseball-themed paintings from curator of education Tom Daly, with admission, 1 to 5 p.m.

Tuesday, July 9: Art, Love, and Identity: A 50th Anniversary Summer Lecture Series: “Inspired: Rockwell and Erikson,” a conversation with Jane Tillman and Stephanie Plunkett, $25, $15 members, 4:30 p.m. lemonade on the Terrace, 5 p.m. talk.

NUARTS STUDIOS AND GALLERY 311 North St., Pittsfield Friday, July 5: Karen S. Jacobs, Peggy Morse and Ilene Richard will be opening their studios and the NUarts Gallery space, 5 to 8 p.m.

SALEM ART WORKS 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. 518-854-7674, salemartworks.org Saturday, July 6: Artist-in-residence open studios, free.

SANDISFIELD ARTS CENTER 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield 413-258-4100, sandisfieldartscenter.org July 6 - Aug. 1: Patricia Hogan Painting Exhibit. On display during scheduled events and by appointment with the artist. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 6 from 2 to 4 p.m.

SCULPTURENOW On the grounds of The Mount, 2 Plunkett St., Lenox

518-392-3693, spencertownacademy.org Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.

June 22 - July 14: “Third Annual Juried Photography Show,” admission is free, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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Tuesdays, July 9 - 30: Drawing Landscapes From Life class with Ann Kremers, $120, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Register: annjkremers@yahoo.com.

Saturday, July 6: Reggie Wilson Fist and Heel Performance Group presents “They Stood Shaking, While Others Began to Shout,” a roving performance that weaves the historic buildings and landscape into a narrative inspired by black Shakers and Ring Shout traditions, $30, $10 member, 2 p.m. Presented in collaboration with Jacob’s Pillow.

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Saturday, July 6: Tanglewood Learning Institute Focal Point Painting Class, $34, 10 a.m., Linde Center Martignetti lobby.

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Saturday, July 6: Tanglewood Learning Institute Focal Point Photography Class, $34, 10 a.m., Linde Center Martignetti lobby.

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Through Oct. 31: Kathleen Jacobs’ “Echos.” Liane Nouri and Jaanika Peerna, “Flow / Flux / Fold.”

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Harpeth Rising fuses Folk, Newgrass, Rock and Classical into something organically unique.

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SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY ART CENTER

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June 21 - July 28: “River Art Project 3,” featuring art by Bart Elsbach, Michael Filmus, Ann Getsinger, Mary Sipp Green, Scott Prior and Jim Schantz.

31 large outdoor sculptures by nationally recognized artists, including acclaimed artist Albert Paley.

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Hours: Thursday to Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, July 6: Tanglewood Learning Institute Focal Point Drawing Class, $34, 10 a.m., Linde Center Martignetti lobby.

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358 George Carter Road, Becket 413-243-0745, jacobspillow.org Dance Classes June 3 - Aug. 23: Community Dance Classes, for dancers of all levels ages 16 and up, $10, $55 for a 6-class card, 8 to 9 a.m. Mondays: Pilates; Tuesdays: Ballet; Wednesdays: Modern; Thursdays: Zumba; Fridays in June and August: Hip-Hop; Fridays in July: African Dance.

Thursday, July 4: Class with Inside/ Out Artist: Kyle Marshall Choreography, open to all experience levels, ages 12 and up, $15, 4 p.m. Register online.

Fridays, July 5 - Aug. 16: Families Dance Together, for children ages 4-18, accompanied by an adult, $7 adult, $4 child. Register: 413-6236635.

Sunday, July 7: Sunday Master Class: David Rousseve/REALITY, for intermediate and advanced dancers ages 16 and up, $20, 10 a.m. Register online.

Ted Shawn Theatre Performances: 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, unless noted.

July 3 - 7: Compagnie CNDCAngers/Robert Swinston, starting at $45.

July 10 - 14: Dance Theatre of Harlem, starting at $45, 8 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday; 2 p.m.

Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

Doris Duke Theatre Performances: 8:15 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 2:15 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, unless noted.

July 10 - 14: Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, starting at $35.

Inside/Out Stage Performances: Free, Wednesday through Saturday, 6:15 p.m., unless noted.

Thursday, July 4: Kyle Marshall Choreography.

Friday, July 5: Daniel Dona’s Compania de Danza.

brings the American Southwest landscape to life with his signature athletic, illusionistic style, $28-$78, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 6: MOMIX Opus Cactus, artistic director Moses Pendleton brings the American Southwest landscape to life with his signature athletic, illusionistic style, $28-$78,7 p.m.

FAIRS, FESTIVALS AND FAMILY FUN ADAMS FREE LIBRARY 92 Park St., Adams 413-743-8345, adamslibraryma. org Friday, July 5: Ukulele Story Times with guest musician Julie Stepanek, 10 a.m.

Saturday, July 6: WeeMuse Art Lab, with admission, 11 a.m.

Sundays: Discovery Tank Program.

Meet the residents of the aquarium’s Discovery Tank and learn about tide pool life in this guided, hands-on gallery program for all ages, 1 p.m.

BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL 413-499-0596

ART OMI 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, N.Y.

Tuesday, July 9: Thomas & Palmer Brook Family Scavenger Hunt Hike, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. BNRC brings hand lenses and a field microscope to take a look at the little things.

Thomas and Palmer Brook is on State Road (Route 23), east of Great Barrington. Look for a sign between 301 and 309 State Road, Great Barrington.

518-392-4747, artomi.org June 24 - Aug. 2: Artgarten, for ages 4-5, $395 per week, $370 for two or more weeks, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

June 24 - Aug. 2: Camp Omi, for ages 6-13, $395 per week, $370 for two or more weeks, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

BARD COLLEGE AT SIMON’S ROCK

BIDWELL HOUSE MUSEUM

84 Alford Road, Great Barrington

413-528-6888, bidwellhousemuseum.org

danielsartparty.org Saturday, July 6: Danny’s at the Fair, family-friendly indoor county fair and variety show featuring blue ribbon competitions, musical acts and more, $10 suggested donation, 7 p.m.

BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM 1 Wendell Ave., Pittsfield 413-499-9480, pittsfieldlibrary. org

100 Art School Road, Monterey

Saturday, July 6: Bidwell Country Fair, free community celebration with colonial reenactors, live music by Bonner & Joe, the Adams Brothers, food and drink, children’s activities, animals, historic craft demonstrations, garden tours and more, 1 to 4 p.m.

BUSHNELL-SAGE LIBRARY 48 Main St., Sheffield

Fridays, July 5 - Aug. 9: Children’s yoga, suited to ages 6-12, 10:30 a.m.

413-229-7004, bushnellsagelibrary.org

Monday, July 8: Blue Star Planetarium Show, best suited for ages 7-12, 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Register: 413-499-9480, ext. 111.

Tuesday, July 9: Summer reading kick off, 3 p.m.

BERKSHIRE MUSEUM

Wednesday, July 10: Phunk Phenomenon.

413-528-0100, mahaiwe.org

Tuesdays: WeeMuse Littlest Learners. Children ages 6 to 18 months engage in stories, songs and creative movement every week in this interactive gallery program designed specifically for our youngest museum visitors, 10:30 a.m.

Friday, July 5: MOMIX Opus Cactus, Artistic Director Moses Pendleton

Fridays: WeeMuse Adventures. Led by a museum educator, children

413-443-7171, berkshiremuseum. org

CLARK ART INSTITUTE 225 South St., Williamstown 413-458-2303, clarkart.edu Sunday, July 7: Free Summer Family Day. This annual celebration offers free admission 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with special activities, artmaking, entertainment, food and fun for all ages from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Mondays, July 8 - Aug. 31: Soundscapes - What does a drawing sound like? What does music look like?

Sketch and reflect in Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, with admission, 1 to 4 p.m. Monday.

DALTON CRA 400 Main St., Dalton 413-684-2459, daltoncra.org Ongoing: Family Swim is offered several times throughout the week – schedule available at daltoncra. org. One member of the group needs a CRA general membership and all must wear swim caps.

Wednesdays and Sundays, July 7 - Aug. 18: Just Play Hoops Summer Basketball League, for children in grades 3-5 and 6-8, $30. Sign up by June 29. For information, contact Dan McMahon at dmcmahon@ daltoncra.org.

Monday, July 8: Ed the Wizard and the Rocket Building Workshop. Build your own air-powered rocket and airplane while learning the basic properties of flight and some flying history, for ages 7 and up., free, 11 a.m. Registration required. 413-4585369.

GREAT BARRINGTON BANDSTAND Behind Town Hall, Great Barrington Saturdays, July 6 - Sept. 7: “A Tanglewood for Tots,” free concert series, David Grover performs, 10 a.m.

GREAT BARRINGTON LIBRARIES

DALTON LIONS CLUB Dalton American Legion Field,

Mason Library, 231 Main St., Great Barrington

Route 9, Dalton.

July 6 and 7: Zerbini Family Circus, shows 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: Advance tickets are $10 adult and $5 child under 12 at Dalton General Store, Dalton CRA, Greenridge Variety, Harry’s Supermarket and Val’s Variety in Adams; $15, children $7 at the door.

DAVID AND JOYCE MILNE PUBLIC LIBRARY

413-528-2403 Ramsdell Library, 1087 Main St., Housatonic 413-274-3738, gblibraries.org July 9 and 10: Science of ME! Berkshire Museum’s GSK Science in the Summer, for children entering grades 2-3, 3:45 to 5:30 p.m., Mason.

Registration required.

HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE

1095 Main St., Williamstown

1843 W. Housatonic St., Pittsfield

413-458-5369, milnelibrary.org

413-443-0188,

Music Workshops for Youth July 8-19: Berkshire Music School Full Program - Lessons, Band Rehearsals, Workshops

July 22-26: Recording Project for Bands & Songwriters

August 5-9: The Guthrie Center Teens & Adults Songwriting with Annie Guthrie, Wes Buckley and guest Seth Glier Sponsored by: Cultural Resources Foundation, Inc.

Register Online: rockonworkshop.org

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39 South St., Pittsfield

14 Castle St., Great Barrington.

Saturdays: Chow Time in the Aquarium. Help prepare delicious and nutritious meals for the creatures in the aquarium, including the turtles, fish and the blue-tongue skink, 12:30 p.m.

bnrc.org

Saturday, July 6: The School at Jacob’s Pillow Flamenco & Spanish Dance Program.

MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

18 months to 3 years old explore the museum with their caregivers and learn through songs, stories, scavenger hunts, play time and more, 11 a.m.

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JACOB’S PILLOW

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hancockshakervillage.org

375 Church St., North Adams

Thursdays: Farm Friends for children ages 2-5 and their caregivers, meet a farm animal, enjoy a story and make a craft, with admission, 10:30 a.m.

413-662-5227, mcla.edu

JACOB’S PILLOW 358 George Carter Road, Becket 413-243-0745, jacobspillow.org Saturday, July 5: Free Fun Friday, dance games, a special tour, classes and more, free, 2 p.m. Funded by the Highland Street Foundation.

LEE LIBRARY 100 Main St., Lee

July 8 - 12: Volleyball Clinic, for grades 7-12, $150, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK McAuley Road, North Adams Thursday, July 4: Discovery Table: Creatures of the Ancient Sea, 2 to 4 p.m.

Friday, July 5: Kidleidoscope, for ages 3-5, 11 a.m. to noon.

Saturday, July 6: Discovery Table, 2 to 4 p.m.

leelibrary.org

Wednesdays: Nice and Easy Walk, 10 to 11 a.m.

Mondays: Babies and Books, 10:30 a.m.

NAUMKEAG

Thursdays: Brain Builders, weekly playgroup for families with young children from ages birth to 5, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

The Trustees of Reservations 5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge 413-298-8138, 413.298.3239 ext.

3013,

LENOX LIBRARY

thetrustees.org

Lenox Town Hall,

Sundays, July 7 - Sept. 15: Family Picnic and Children’s Art Afternoon, $20, 1 to 3 p.m.

6 Walker St., Lenox 413-637-0197, lenoxlib.org Tuesdays, July 2 - Aug. 20: Terry a la Berry and Friends perform, 11 a.m.

MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge 413-298-4100, nrm.org Saturday, July 6: Home Run! An All

American Baseball Day, celebrate baseball on this day of hands-on art making, tours and special presentations; meet players from the Tri City Valley Cats and the PittsďŹ eld Suns, and learn about Rockwell’s many baseball themed paintings from curator of education Tom Daly, with admission, 1 to 5 p.m.

Mondays and Fridays, July 1 - Aug. 30: Children’s Art Workshop: Drop-in and Create, all ages explore different materials, techniques and creative projects, 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Tuesdays, July 9 - Aug. 20: Summer Sketch Club: Digital Day. Participants are provided with iPads to explore creating images with digital technology. This class encourages self-expression, experimentation, and skill development for ages 7 and up, $8, $5 members or apply program pass, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Class will be outdoors weather permitting.

Wednesdays, July 10 - Aug. 21: Creating Together, for children ages 2-6 with a parent or caregiver.

Explore the galleries and grounds with a child- centered guide, observe different paintings, trees, animals and explore a variety of materials and techniques for creating our own artworks, $8, $5 members or apply program pass, 10 to 11:30 a.m.

NORTH ADAMS FOURTH OF JULY

JULY

Joe Wolfe Field, 310 State St., North Adams

Thursday, July 4: Annual parade, theme: “The Berkshires – Past, Present and Future,� kicks off at 10 a.m.

Thursday, July 4: An evening of allAmerican fun, the annual 4th of July SteepleCats game and ďŹ reworks, which start immediately afterward, at approximately 9:30 p.m.

NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY naplibrary.com

pittsďŹ eldparade.com

PITTSFIELD SUNS 105 Wahconah St., PittsďŹ eld.

413-445-7867, pittsďŹ eldsuns.com July 4, 5, 7, 8, 10: Home games.

ROBBINS-ZUST FAMILY MARIONETTES

Mondays, July 8 - Aug. 5: Crafternoons, 1 to 2 p.m. Discovery Mondays, hands on exploration of books and activities focused on astronomy and space, 6 p.m.

robbins-zustfamilymarionettes. com

Tuesdays: Toddler Story Time, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, July 9: “Rumplestilskin,� $5, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Wednesdays: Preschool Story Time, 10:30 a.m.

SALEM ART AND PLOW FEST

NOTCHVIEW RESERVATION

Main Street, Salem, N.Y.

Route 9, Windsor

Salemnychamber.com

413-200-7262, thetrustees.org

Thursday, July 4: Annual festival celebrating agriculture and the arts, with an annual parade, arts and craft vendors and more.

Tuesdays, July 2 - Sept. 24: Storytime with goats, $6 child, $3 member child, adults free, 10 to 11 a.m.

Saturday, July 6: “Rumplestilskin,� free, 11 to 11:30 a.m.

SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY

Friday, July 5: TrusteesTeens! Hiking Club, free, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

70 Kemble St., Lenox

PITTSFIELD FOURTH OF

Thursday, July 4: In special partner-

413-637-3353, shakespeare.org

Our 50th Anniversary Gala

August 17, 2019 5:30PM - 11:00PM Choreographed by Paula Weber

Berkshire Plaza Hotel 1 West Street, Pittsfield, MA

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Silent Auction Reception Banquet Dinner Performance Excerpt from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream�

Inaugural “Madeline Cantarella Culpo Award�

After-Party with DJ BFG

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August 23 - 7:30p The Egg | Albany, NY

August 31 - 7:30p Academy of Music | Northampton, MA

September 7 - 7:30p The Colonial Theatre | PittsďŹ eld, MA

www.albanyberkshireballet.org | 413.445.5382

Tickets are available for purchase online through Albany Berkshire Ballet’s website at www.berkshireballet.org/tickets.

Please call (413) 445-5382 or ballet@albanyberkshire.org for more information.

Please rsvp no later than July 15, 2019

wine and cheese reception with the artists.

Friday, July 5: “The Birth of the String Quartet: Castello, Caldara, Purcell, Telemann, Richter, Mozart and Haydn,” with Daniel Stepner and Julie Leven, violins; Jason Fisher, viola; Jacques Lee Woods, cello, 7:30 p.m., Time and Space.

STEEPLECATS BASEBALL Joe Wolfe Field, 310 State

Saturday, July 6: “The Birth of the String Quartet: Castello, Caldara, Purcell, Telemann, Richter, Mozart and Haydn,” 6 p.m., Saint James Place.

St., North Adams 413-398-4060, steeplecats.org Thursday, July 4: SteepleCats v.

Vermont, $3-7, 6:30 p.m. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m.

BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY

Friday, July 5: SteepleCats v. Ocean State, $3-7, 6:30 p.m.

Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center

Sunday, July 7: SteepleCats v. Winnipesaukee, $3-7, 6:30 p.m.

36 Linden St., Pittsfield

STEPHENTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

413-236-8888, barringtonstageco.org/mrfinns

Monday, July 8: Summer potluck picnic, 6 p.m., at the Stephentown Firehall Pavilion, 35 Grange Hall Road, Stephentown, N.Y.

Sunday, July 7: Jim Caruso’s Cast Party with Bill Stritch at the piano, $30, 8 p.m.

WEST STOCKBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Monday, July 8: An evening with Jason Robert Brown, $32-$72, 8

21 State Line Road, West Stockbridge 413-232-0300 ext. 308 Saturdays in July: Preschool storycraft, 11 a.m.

WILLIAMS COLLEGE SUMMER SCIENCE LAB Main Street, Williamstown 413-597-4588 learning-in-action.williams. edu/local-education-outreach/ summer-science-lab July 8-12 and 15-19: Excellent oneweek hands-on science experience run by Chemistry faculty at Williams College, uses the fully equipped chemistry labs at Williams and the help of Williams students and two Berkshire County middle school teachers. For 4th and 5th graders. $250, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Online registration required.

FILM ADAMS FREE LIBRARY 92 Park St., Adams

Tuesday, July 9: Watch the movie “Ready Player One,” (PG13), 6 p.m.

BERKSHIRE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Lenox Memorial High School, 197 East St., Lenox 413-445-4872, ext. 10, berkshirejewishfilmfestival.org

CAROLINE BONNIVIER SNYDER — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE

The Steeplecats have three homes games this weekend.

Monday, July 8: “Beneath the Ink.” Inspired by current events, an Appalachia tattoo artist donates his services to erase symbols of hate from those seeking to reverse past, bigoted mistakes. “The Barn.”

A captivating and honest film of a Holocaust survivor and his granddaughter who travel to Poland and reunite with his savior as they all share a journey of memory and rediscovery, $7, 4 p.m. Coproduced by Nancy Spielberg and Rachel Kastner.

“I Heart NY,” celebrated HungarianJewish graphic designer Milton Glaser shares the inspiration behind the creation of his iconic “I ♥NY” logo. “The Mamboniks.” During the 1950s, free-spirited, mostly Jewish dancers from New York City fell head over heels for the mambo, a hot dance from Havana, Cuba. The film features this zany group of retirees, still dancing to the Latin rhythms, $10, 8 p.m.

CLARK ART INSTITUTE 225 South St., Williamstown 413-458-2303, clarkart.edu Wednesday, July 10: “How Are You.” In conjunction with “Art’s Biggest Stage: Collecting the Venice Biennale, 2007–2019,” the documentary presents the life and work of artist couple Elmgreen and Dragset. It culminates with their

work for the Danish and Nordic pavilions at the 2009 Venice Biennale, which features prominently in the Clark’s show. Introduced by Robert Wiesenberger, associate curator of Contemporary Projects, free, 2 p.m.

JACOB’S PILLOW 358 George Carter Road, Becket 413-243-0745, jacobspillow.org Sunday, July 7: “Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime in Dance” film screening, $10, 4:30 p.m.

518-329-0114, ancramoperahouse.org Saturday, July 6: “Welcome to the Jungle,” written and performed by award-winning New York-based actor, playwright and cabaret artist Salty Brine, $30, 8:30 p.m.

ASTON MAGNA MUSIC FESTIVAL 413-528-3595, astonmagna.org Saint James Place, 352 Main St., Great Barrington Time and Space LTD,

MUSIC

434 Columbia St., Hudson, N.Y. Tickets: $40-$45 unless noted. All concerts preceded by a talk 45 minutes before the program. Concerts in Great Barrington followed by a

ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE 1330 County Route 7, Ancram, N.Y.

Knesset Israel Presents the 33rd Annual

Berkshire Jewish Film Festival MONDAYS THROUGH AUGUST 12 th

July 8

4PM MATINEE BENEATH THE INK AND THE BARN

8PM EVENING

I HEART NY AND THE MAMBONIKS

LENOX HIGH SCHOOL ~ 197 EAST ST., LENOX, MA INFORMATION: 413-445-4872, EXT. 25 WWW.KNESSETISRAEL.ORG Generously supported by Greylock Federal Credit Union, Berkshire Bank, Wolfson Family Foundation and Spitz-Tuchman Charitable Trust

SOUTH MOUNTAIN CONCERTS Sunday, September 8 WU HAN, Piano; DAVID FINCKEL, Cello; Arnaud Sussmann, Violin; Paul Neubauer, Viola Sunday, September 15 CALIDORE STRNG QUARTET Sunday, September 22 BRENTANO STRING QUARTET Hsin-Yun Huang, Viola Sunday, October 6 CHAMBER ENSEMBLE, ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS Sunday, October 13 EMERSON STRING QUARTET Reserved Seats $40 Students with ID $15 at door All Concerts at 3 p.m.

Send check and return envelope to South Mountain Concerts Box 23, Pittsfield, MA 01202 Phone Information 413-442-2106 www.southmountainconcerts.org

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413-743-8345, adamslibraryma. org

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ship with BRIDGE, Shakespeare & Company host its annual Fourth of July Community Celebration “We Hold These Truths,” with music, children’s crafts and activities, and a public reading of The Declaration of Independence, 1:30 to 5 p.m.

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p.m., Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union St., Pittsfield.

2 Van Deusenville Road,

25 E. Main St., Cambridge, N.Y.

Great Barrington

BASCOM LODGE

413-528-1955, guthriecenter.org

518-232-2347, musicfromsalem. org

3 Summit Road, Adams 413-743-1591

Thursdays: Hootenanny night, $5, $3 members, music begins at 7 p.m.

Shows at Hubbard Hall unless noted.

bascomlodge.net

Troubadour Series

Wednesday, July 10: JoAnne Spies & Doug Tanner, free, 6 p.m.

Doors open at 6 p.m., shows start at 8 p.m.

BERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL

Friday, July 5: Roan Yellowthorn, $25, $20 members.

Sunday, July 7: Gubaidulina and the Old World Chamber Music Concert, music by Shaw, Beethoven, Faure; performed by L. Brown, K. Lansdale, G. Gedicks, M. Placci, B. Hogan, J. Gordon, $25 suggested or pay what you can, 4 p.m.

Taft Recital Hall 30 Wendell Ave., Pittsfield 413-442-1411, berkshiremusicschool.org stockbridgesinfonia.org Monday, July 8: Summer lessons and classes begin.

BERKSHIRE SCENIC RAILWAY 4 Hoosac St., Adams 413-663-4189, berkshiretrains. org Saturday, July 6: Enjoy an evening rides on the rails with live cabaret singers Ron and Samantha. BYO beverages and snacks. Adults only, $25 per ticket, 7 p.m. departure.

Saturday, July 6: Jim Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur, $30, $25 members.

Open Rehearsals at Brown Farm

LIVE ON THE LAKE

154 Priest Road, Salem, N.Y.

Burbank Park on Onota Lake,

Thursday, July 4: Open rehearsal for the July 7 concert, free, 4 p.m.

Pittsfield Wednesdays, July 10 - Aug. 21: Free community concert series presented by Live 95.5, a familyfriendly event that highlights some of the Berkshires” best local musicians, 6 to 8 p.m.

MASS MOCA 1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams 413-662-2111, massmoca.org

Workshops for Children and Youth Friday, July 5: Free, 3 p.m., Greenwich Youth Center, 6 Academy St., Greenwich, N.Y.

88 Walker St., Lenox

MOHAWK TRAIL CONCERTS

thetrustees.org

Friday, July 5: Young Artists Wind Ensemble Chamber Music Performance Class, 2:30 p.m.

50th Anniversary Season Summer Festival Federated Church, 175 Main St.,

Thursdays, June 20 - Sept. 12: Naumkeag at Night, $10, $5 members, 5 to 8 p.m.

Sunday, July 7: Faculty Recital with Young Artists Vocal Program Faculty, 7 p.m.

Charlemont

PS21

mohawktrailconcerts.org

2980 Route 66, Chatham, N.Y.

Thursday, July 4: Free Family Jazz Concert with Kamaya Diggs, vocalist, and her combo, 4 p.m.

518-392-6121, PS21chatham.org

Concerts at West Street Theatre 45 West St., Lenox Saturday, July 6: Young Artists Piano Program Student Recital, 11 a.m.

CONCERTS IN THE PARK

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Lilac Park, Main Street, Lenox

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GUTHRIE CENTER

Wednesday, July 10: Vento Chiaro, 6:30 p.m.

GREAT BARRINGTON GAZEBO Behind Town Hall, Main Street, Great Barrington.

Friday, July 5: Reinhart / Ciccarelli, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 6: The Newman-Oltman Guitar Duo, “The 3 B’s,” Bach, Black & Brouwers, $25, children under 16 free, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, July 5: Opening Night at Tanglewood Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons conducts Mozart and Mahler featuring pianist Emanuel Ax, $24-$114, 8 p.m., Koussevitzky Music Shed.

Saturday, July 6: Saturday Morning Rehearsal, Tower, Previn and Dvorak,

COMPAGNIE CNDC-ANGERS /ROBERT SWINSTON Presenting works by Merce Cunningham as part of the worldwide Cunningham Centennial celebration.

5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge 413-298-8138, 413.298.3239 ext.

3013,

Friday, July 5: Ehud Asherie – Stride & Choros: Jazz From NY to Brazil, $30/$25/$10 students, 8 p.m.

THE MOUNT Edith Wharton’s Home

SOUNDS OF SUMMER

2 Plunkett St., Lenox

VFW, 800 S. Main St.,

413-551-5111

Great Barrington

edithwharton.org

Tuesdays, July 9 - Aug. 1: A free family-friendly community concert series presented by WSBS, 6 to 8 p.m.

Friday, July 5: The Wanda Houston Band.

SUPERTONE 2019

Saturday, July 6: The Benny Sharoni Quartet.

110 S. Front St.,

MUSIC FROM SALEM

Saturday, July 6: Showcasing what is vibrant and original in rock, roots

Hubbard Hall,

TANGLEWOOD

NAUMKEAG

Saturday, July 6: Walsh-DruckerCooper Trio, works by Mozart, Prokofiev and Mendelssohn, $35/$30/$10 students, 8 p.m.

July 5 - Aug. 24: Music After Hours, free, 5 to 8 p.m. Sponsored by Greylock Federal Credit Union.

Mondays: West African & Caribbean drum and song classes with Aimee Gelinas, $10, 6 p.m. beginner, 7 p.m. advanced, at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, 28 Renne Ave., Pittsfield. Drop-in welcome and drums provided. No class June 24.

Friday, July 5: Tanglewood Learning Institute “Meet the Makers,” Benoit Rolland bow maker, $34, 4 p.m., Linde Center Studio E.

Saturday, July 6: Jive by Five, $34, 5 p.m.

Concerts at Trinity Church

Tuesday, July 9: Faculty Recital with Gila Goldstein, piano, 7 p.m.

tamarackhollownatureandculturalcenter.org/

Thursday, July 4: Popular Artist Series, James Taylor returns to Tanglewood with his all-star band, $28-$115, 8 p.m., Koussevitzky Music Shed.

musicmountain.org

The Trustees of Reservations

Monday, July 8: Faculty Recital with Jennifer Bill, saxophone, 6 p.m.

Windsor

888-266-1200, bso.org

Falls Village, Conn.

Saturday, July 6: John Simon, legendary music producer of the Band, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, shares stories and songs. $18-$44, 8 p.m.

Concerts free and open to the public unless noted.

1515-16 Savoy Hollow Road,

297 West St., Lenox

225 Music Mountain Road,

Sunday, July 7: American String Quartet, $39, 3 p.m.

617-353-3386, bu.edu/tanglewood

TAMARACK HOLLOW NATURE AND CULTURAL CENTER

Boston Symphony Orchestra,

MUSIC MOUNTAIN

Thursday, July 4 - Oct. 10: The Chalet, a cozy riverside beer garden featuring local performing artists, every Thursday, free, 5:30 p.m.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE

and honky-tonk music on a technicolor stage for a diverse upstate audience, featuring Ex Hex, Thelma and the Sleaze, Riley Downing, Wildleek River, The Wild Weeds, Habibi and more, $50, 3 p.m. to midnight.

Basilica Hudson Hudson, N.Y.

T E D S H AW N T H EAT R E W E D–S AT 8P M, S AT & S U N 2P M T I C K E T S S TA RT AT $45

PACK A PICNIC AND ENJOY ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES

DISCOUNTED MATINEE TICKETS 2pm & 2:15pm

Saturday, July 6: Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons conducts Tower, Previn and Dvorak featuring violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, $22$104, 8 p.m., Koussevitzky Music Shed.

Sunday, July 7: TMC Recital, $13, 10 a.m., Seiji Ozawa Hall.

Sunday, July 7: Boston Pops Orchestra, Across the Stars: Music of John Williams, featuring conductor David Newman and violinist AnneSophie Mutter, $23-$575, 2:30 p.m., Koussevitzky Music Shed.

Monday, July 8: Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Andris Nelsons Tchaikovsky, Glanert, and Shostakovich, featuring Thomas Rolfs, $13-$57, 8 p.m., Seiji Ozawa Hall.

Tuesday, July 9: Tanglewood Learning Institute, “Meet the Makers,” Meow Meow, postmodern diva, $34, 1:30 p.m., Linde Center Studio E. Tuesday, July 9: Tanglewood Learning Institute, Full Tilt Meow Meow Pandemonium, $35-$58, 8 p.m., Seiji Ozawa Hall.

Wednesday, July 10: Tanglewood Learning Institute, “Meet the Makers,” Joan Tower (composer), $34-$34, 4:30 p.m., Linde Center Studio E. Wednesday, July 10: Violinist Hilary Hahn, $22-$78, 8 p.m., Seiji Ozawa Hall.

413-743-8345, adamslibraryma. org Tuesday, July 9: Read the Movie Book Group meets to discuss “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline, 2 p.m.

11 Housatonic St., Lenox

1 Wendell Ave., Pittsfield

413-637-3390,

413-499-9480, pittsfieldlibrary. org

bookstoreinlenox.com

Herman Melville Memorial Room open 9 a.m .to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

July 1 - Aug. 16: Adult Summer Reading Program. The Friends of the Berkshire Athenaeum are providing Friends’ memberships as raffle prizes for adult readers. To qualify for the raffle, registered readers should pick up a bingo-style card at the athenaeum with suggested reading genres. Completed cards are dropped off at a library service desk; each completed card qualifies as a raffle entry.

July 8 - Aug. 9: Community Tai Chi, free class with certified instructors from Berkshire Tai Chi well-suited for both experienced practitioners and newcomers, 10 a.m. Monday.

EASTOVER ESTATE AND ECO-VILLAGE

CHABAD OF THE BERKSHIRES

430 East St., Lenox

450 South St., Pittsfield

Friday, July 5: Dream Yoga: The Path of Awakening Through Sleep and Dream, an introductory workshop on Lucid dreaming and dream yoga, $20, 7:30 p.m.

413-499-9899, jewishberkshires. com Sunday, July 7: “Operation Entebbe: The Greatest Hostage Rescue In History,” $15 in advance by July 5, $20 at the door, 7 p.m., at Berkshire Plaza Hotel - Holiday Inn, 1 West St., Pittsfield. RSVP.

eastover.com

SERVANCY River Walk, Cottage Street to Bridge Street, Great Barrington Lake Mansfield, Lake Mansfield Road, Great Barrington 414-528-4061, gbland.org Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, July 1 - 26: Morning Yoga, with Kripalu-trained Senta Reis, beginners welcome, participants should bring a yoga mat and towel, $10 suggested donation, 8 to 9 a.m., Lake Mansfield Beach. No class on rainy days.

GREAT BARRINGTON LIBRARIES Mason Library, 231 Main St., Great Barrington A Universe of Authors & Illustrators Series

Wednesday, July 10: Challah Bake, $18, 12:30 p.m. RSVP.

GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM

Saturday, July 6: Rob Dunlavey, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Mason.

CHESTERWOOD

817 S. Main St., Great Barrington

HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE

5 W. Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge

4 Williamsville Road, Stockbridge

413-591-8702, info@gbhistory.org

1843 W. Housatonic St., Pittsfield

413-298-3926, berkshirebotanical.org

413-298-3579, chesterwood.org

Weekends, June through September: “Businesses Exhibit” free, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

413-443-0188,

BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN

Tuesday, July 9: Berkshire Backyard Beekeepers workshop, free, 6 to 8 p.m.

BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL 413-499-0596

110 Darrow Road, New Lebanon, N.Y.

Tuesday, July 9: Thomas & Palmer Brook Family Scavenger Hunt Hike, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. BNRC brings hand lenses and a field microscope to take a look at the little things.

Thomas and Palmer Brook is on State Road (Route 23), east of Great

Saturday, July 6: Stephen Hough, $30-$39, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, July 10: Thomas Wolf, “The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz,” 4 p.m. at the Lenox Library.

Wednesdays and Saturdays, July 1 - Aug. 31: Did You Know? A Guided Walking Tour, explore the Clark’s campus and learn about the museum’s evolution, architecture and sustainability initiatives, free, 3 p.m.

Sundays, June 30 - Aug. 25: Tai Chi Qigong: Moving and stillness for energy, vitality and tranquility, $15, 9 to 10 a.m.

bnrc.org

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THE BOOKSTORE AND GET LIT WINE BAR

BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM

TANNERY POND CONCERTS

888-820-1696,

Barrington. Look for a sign between 301 and 309 State Road, Great Barrington.

Hours: Open daily May 25 through Oct. 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Guided tours depart at 11 a.m., noon, 1 and 2 p.m. Open touring from 10 to 11 a.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. Grounds-only pass available.

GREAT BARRINGTON LAND CON-

413-528-2403, gblibraries.org

hancockshakervillage.org Saturday, July 6: Summer gala, includes a roving performance of

Thursdays, in July and August: Chesterwood’s buildings and grounds available for open touring until 7 p.m. with sunset woodland walks and wine on the piazza. Regular admission fees apply.

John L. McLean

CLARK ART INSTITUTE

Same Great Service. New Location!

225 South St., Williamstown 413-458-2303, clarkart.edu

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featuring conductor Andris Nelsons and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, $14-$34, 10:30 a.m., Koussevitzky Music Shed.

ABR, CRS, Broker Associate

Residential - Condominiums - Land - Rentals call/text: 413.441.4403 JohnMcLean@MyBerkshireHome.com 2 South Street, Suite 160, Pittsfield, MA 01201

WINDSOR LAKE CONCERTS Intersection of Bradley Street and Kemp Avenue, North Adams.

413-664-6180

Wednesday, July 10: The Spurs USA.

READINGS, WALKS AND TALKS ADAMS FREE LIBRARY 92 Park St., Adams

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June 5 - Aug. 28: Free concerts every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., cancelled for rain. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming, and fishing are all allowed at the lake.

Over 35 years of helping Buyers and Sellers in the Berkshlres.

Let Me Help You!

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“…they stood shaking, while others began to shout” by award-winning choreographer Reggie Wilson’s Fist and Heel Performance Group a Shaker farm-to-table dinner and fireworks, $250 and up, 6 p.m.

JACOB’S PILLOW 358 George Carter Road, Becket 413-243-0745, jacobspillow.org PillowTalks Friday, July 5: “Merce Cunningham: Loops,” free, 5 p.m., Blake’s Barn.

Saturday, July 6: “Dancing with Merce Cunningham,” free, 4 p.m., Blake’s Barn.

JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES 196 South St., Pittsfield 413-442-4360, jewishberkshires. org

Thursday, July 4: Housatonic Evening Paddle, $35, 6:30 to 9 p.m., New Lenox Road, Lenox.

Saturday, July 6: Birding the Berks Series - Thrushes & Warblers on Greylock Summit, $17, 8 to 11 a.m., Mount Greylock, North Adams.

Canoeing the Housatonic River, $35, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., New Lenox Road, Lenox.

LENOX LIBRARY

Edith Wharton’s Home

18 Main St., Lenox

2 Plunkett St., Lenox

lenoxlib.org

413-551-5111

July 5 - Aug. 25: Tanglewood preconcert talks with Jeremy Yudkin, Fridays at 2:30 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m.

edithwharton.org

472 West Mountain Road, Lenox Register for programs: massaudubon.org/pleasantvalley

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Sundays, through Aug. 25: Backstairs Tours, learn about the daily routines of the men and women who ran The Mount, $23, $7 members,

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Tuesday, July 9: Birding at the Mount, 8 to 10 a.m., 2 Plunkett St., Lenox.

Wednesday, July 10: Evening at the Beaver Ponds, $8, $4 child, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

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Sunday, July 7: Canoeing Upper & Lower Goose Ponds, $35, 8:30 a.m. to noon.

Monday, July 8: Exploring Jewish Humor, “Sholom Aleichem,” with Yiddish scholar Dick Macht, free, 10:45 a.m., at Knesset Israel, 16 Colt Road, Pittsfield.

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Friday, July 5: Berkshire Views Lenox Mountain: Taconic Range & Richmond Pond Views, $12, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Beavers, Birds, & Other Wildlife walk, $8, 4:30 to 6 p.m.

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413.236.8888

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Visit the Market Manager’s table for details about nutrition assistance and benefit match programs, which vary at individual markets.

10 SHEFFIELD Fri. 3pm–6pm 5/24/19–10/11/19 11 WEST STOCKBRIDGE Thu. 3pm–7pm 5/23/19–10/3/19 12 WILLIAMSTOWN Sat. 9am–1pm 5/18/19–10/12/19

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Maple Street Cemetery, Adams

413-458-2494, wrlf.org

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CAPITOL STEPS

Tuesdays through July: Guided bird walks, free, 8 to 10 a.m.

Registration required. Information: massaudubon.org/programs.

Sundays, July 7 - Oct. 13: Free tours by members of the Adams Historical Society and Adams Historical Commission, 1 to 4 p.m.

Fitzpatrick Main Stage,

Cranwell Resort

83 East Main St., Stockbridge

55 Lee Road, Lenox

Unicorn Theatre,

capitolsteps.cranwell.com

Wednesdays, through Sept. 4: Ghost Tours, take a guided tour of the most haunted parts of the estate, $24, $20 ages 12-18, 7:30 p.m.

TANGLEWOOD

Saturday July 6: Free guided hike up to Taconic Crest Trail and from there to Petersburg Pass, 9 a.m., meet at Petersburg Pass and carpool to Phelps trailhead on Oblong Road, Williamstown.

6 East St., Stockbridge

Wednesdays, July 10 - Aug 28: Wharton and Cather Shorts, this series will highlight two very different American experiences through reading of their short stories, $10, free for members, 5 p.m.

888-266-1200, bso.org

June 28 - Aug 30: “The Lyin’ Kings,” a hilarious evening of American political satire and song parodies.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and performances are at 8 p.m. nightly except Tuesdays, in the Harvest Barn.

NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK McAuley Road, North Adams Wednesdays: Nice and Easy Walk, 10 a.m.

Saturdays through July 20: Natural Bridge History Tour, 10 a.m. and noon.

Sundays: Natural Bridge History Tour, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Building the Bridge, noon.

NAUMKEAG The Trustees of Reservations 5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge 413-298-8138, 413-298-3239 ext.

3013, thetrustees.org Through Oct. 14: The Naumkeag Experience, $20, free members, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Fridays, July 5 to Sept. 6: Mindfulness and Meditation in the Garden, $20, $12 members, 9 to 10 a.m.

Mondays, July 1 - Sept. 2: Yoga with a View, $20, $12 members, 9 to 10 a.m.

Mondays, July 1 - Aug. 26: Naumkeag Boot Camp, $20, $12 members, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Wednesdays, July 3 - Aug. 28: Cocktails with Fletcher Steele, $25, $15 members, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge 413-298-4100, nrm.org

NOTCHVIEW RESERVATION Route 9, Windsor 413-200-7262, thetrustees.org July 4 - 7: Notchview Ultra, $30 registration. Information: 518-4355590; acaluori@thetrustees.org.

QUAKER MEETING HOUSE

297 West St., Lenox Friday, July 5: Tanglewood Learning Institute Meet the Makers, Benoit Rolland, bow maker, $34, 4 p.m., Linde Center Studio E. Saturday, July 6: Tanglewood Learning Institute, The Big Idea Madeleine K. Albright Secretary of State, $45-$68, 5 p.m., Seiji Ozawa Hall.

TEMPLE ANSHE AMUNIM 26 Broad St., Pittsfield 413-442-5910, ansheamunim.org Thursdays, June through August: Rabbi Liz Hirsh leads guided meditation and light yoga for all ages and abilities, no prior experience or athletic clothing necessary, free, 1:15 p.m.

Saturdays, June 1 - Aug. 30: Torah Plus: Shabbat Morning Study, 9:30 a.m.

Saturday July 6: Spiritual Physical Fitness, “Hike,” Rabbi Liz Hirsch leads a Shabbat hike, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, July 9: The “In Fascism’s Grip” play analysis course with Barbara Waldinger reads Bertolt Brecht’s “The Private Life of the Master Race,” and Michael Franyn’s “Copenhagen,” $45, $40 members, $15 drop-in, 10 a.m.

Wednesday, July 10: “The God You Don’t Believe in Doesn’t Exist,” lunch and learn series with Rabbi Liz Hirsch, $5, free for members, bring your own lunch, 11:30 a.m.

VENTFORT HALL 104 Walker St., Lenox 413-637-3206, gildedage.org Tuesday, July 9: Tea & Talk, “Downton Abbey Style: The Influences on Fashion, 1912 - 1925,” with historian Susan J. Jerome, $28 members/advance reservation, $32 day of, 4 p.m.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HOMESTEAD 207 Bryant Road, Cummington thetrustees.org Saturday, July 6: Poet, Editor & Conservationist, $10, members free, tours at 10 and 11 a.m., and 1 and 2 p.m.

WILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION 671 Cold Spring Road, Williamstown

THEATER BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY Boyd-Quinson Mainstage 30 Union St., Pittsfield St. Germain Stage 36 Linden St., Pittsfield 413-236-8888, barringtonstageco.org June 19 - July 13: “Into the Woods,” music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine, directed by Joe Calarco. A childless baker and his wife endeavor to lift their family curse by journeying into the woods where they encounter Rapunzel and her mother, Cinderella, Jack (of Beanstalk fame), Little Red Riding Hood and other classic fairy tale characters. Their stories become entangled in unexpected ways – revealing what happens after “happily ever after.” Performances: Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 p.m., Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., Wednesday and Friday at 2 p.m., and Sunday at 5 p.m. Added Saturday matinees July 6 and 13 at 2 p.m.; no show July 4. $15-$75. BoydQuinson Mainstage.

July 5 - 27: “Time Flies and Other Comedies” by David Ives, directed

by Tracey Birgden.Welcome to the hilarious world of America’s foremost comedic playwright and to an evening filled with some of the funniest short plays ever written. Plays include: “Dr. Fritz, or The Forces of Light,” “Enigma Variation,” “Time Flies,” “The Mystery of Twicknam Vicarage,” “Variations on the Death of Trotsky.” Performances: Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. St. Germain Stage. $15-$50.

BERKSHIRE PLAYWRIGHTS LAB 413-528-2544, berkshireplaywrightslab.org Wednesday, July 10: “Judgement Day,” staged reading of a new play written by Rob Ulin, directed by BPL Co-Artistic Director Matthew Penn, $15, 7:30 p.m., at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle St., Great Barrington.

BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP Colonial Theatre, 111 South St., Pittsfield 413-997-4444, berkshirethe-

June 19 - July 13: “Outside Mullingar,” from the Pulitzer, Tony and Oscar award-winning author of “Doubt” and “Moonstruck,” John Patrick Shanley, directed by Karen Allen. With the years slipping away, middle-aged farmers Anthony and Rosemary will need to overcome a bitter land feud, family rivalries and their own romantic fears to find happiness. Set in rural Ireland, this tender-hearted story reminds us it’s never too late to take a chance on love. Preview: $47; Tickets: $56.

Unicorn Theatre.

June 27 - July 21: “Rock and Roll Man: The Alan Freed Story.” “Rock and Roll Man” is the new high-energy musical about the incredible rise and fall of Alan Freed, the man who coined the phrase rock and roll and brought its sound to the world, uniting a racially divided America through music. Featuring original songs and some of the biggest hits of a decade, such as “Why Do Fools Fall in Love,” “Tutti Frutti” and more, “Rock and Roll Man” also highlights the greatest rock and roll legends of all time, such as Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Fats Domino and more! Tickets: $75 and $50.

Colonial Theatre.

CHESTER THEATRE COMPANY Town Hall Theatre, 15 Middlefield Road, Chester 413-354-7771 chestertheatre.org Show times are 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m.

Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Talkbacks follow Thursday and Saturday matinees. Cast conversations follow Friday evening performances.

Panel discussions featuring outside experts take place after the first Sunday matinee of each play.

June 20 - 30: July 4 - 14: “Now Circa Then,” by Carly Mensch, directed by Sean Christopher Lewis. Set in New York’s Tenement Museum, “Now Circa Then” dances between the tale of two young immigrants, Josephine and Julian, making their way in their new country in the 1890s, and the developing relationship of Margie and Gideon, a mismatched pair of re-enactors hired to portray them.

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Tuesday, July 9: Art, Love, and Identity: A 50th Anniversary Summer Lecture Series: “Inspired: Rockwell and Erikson,” a conversation with Jane Tillman and Stephanie Plunkett, $25, $15 members, 4:30 p.m. lemonade on the Terrace, 5 p.m. talk.

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museum employees’ relationship spills into the story they are charged with acting out. Tickets: $42.50.

Smokey must grapple with the fact that his own freedom depends on another black man’s captivity. Nikos Stage.

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July 10 - 20: “Selling Kabul,” by Sylvia Khoury, directed by Tyne Rafaeli. Taroon (Babak Tafti), a former interpreter for the U.S. military, lives in hiding from the Taliban in his sister, Afiya’s (Marjan Neshat), home in Kabul, Afghanistan. As Taroon restlessly awaits news from the hospital on the eve of his first child’s birth, his brother-in-law, Jawid (Omar Metwally), works to protect him from dangers lurking outside the apartment walls. Nikos Stage.

1925 NY-203, Chatham, N.Y. 518-392-9292, machaydntheatre. org Performances: Thursdays at 2 and 8 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 4 and 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m., and Wednesdays at 2 p.m., unless noted.

July 4 - 21: “Grease,” $15-$39.50.

SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY 70 Kemble St., Lenox 413-637-3353

Talks

For performance times, visit shakespeare.org.

May 23 - July 14: “The Waverly Gallery,” by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Tina Packer. Once a vibrant lawyer, Greenwich Village activist and family matriarch, Gladys Green has run a charming boutique art gallery on Waverly Place for decades, but now stands to lose its tenancy, as her world shrinks through loss of memory and hearing. Gladys’ family struggles to cope with her fading faculties in this Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama. As told from her grandson’s perspective, this powerful story sheds a lasting and humorous light on how our familial roles get inevitably refashioned over time, and quietly challenges us to examine how we look after each other. Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre.

July 2 - Aug. 4: “Twelfth Night,” by William Shakespeare, directed by Allyn Burrows, with Martin Jason Asprey, Gregory Boover, Thomas Brazzle, Deaon Griffin-Pressley and Ella Loudon. Tina Packer Playhouse.

June 30 - Aug. 18: Sunday Lawn Talks, arrive early for the matinee performances to hear artists, special guests, and WTF staff delve into the rich themes of WTF productions, 1:15 p.m., on the front lawn. Bring your own picnic or stop by concessions!

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Mandi Masden and S. Epatha Merkerson in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” June 25 - July 13: “A Raisin in the Sun,” by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Robert O’Hara. Lena Younger (S. Epatha Merkerson) and her son, Walter Lee (Francois Battiste), are at odds. Lena wants to use her late husband’s life insurance to move her family out of their cramped apartment on Chicago’s South Side.

THEATER BARN 518-794-8989, thetheaterbarn. org

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Sunday. $27-$29.

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July 4 - 21: “Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution.” The stakes are high for Leonard Vole, accused of murdering a rich widow with shocking witness testimony, impassioned outbursts from the dock and a young man’s fight to escape the hangman’s noose.

WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance, 1000 Main St., Williamstown 413-458-3253, wtfestival.org Showtimes and tickets online.

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Walter Lee would rather use the funds to start a business and become an independent man. As their dispute intensifies, the powerful and destructive forces of 1950s America come knocking at the Youngers’ front door. Main Stage.

June 26 - July 7: “A Human Being, Of A Sort,” by Jonathan Payne,

“A TRIUMPH!” BroadwayWorld

“REMARKABLE CAST” New York Stage Review

Mykal Kilgore.

Photo by Stephen Sorokoff.

“MASTERLY PRODUCTION...

RICHLY REWARDING” The Berkshire Eagle

“TOTALLY ENTRANCING” Off Script With Dan Dwyer

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ORCHESTRATIONS BY JONATHAN TUNICK MUSICAL DIRECTION BY DARREN R. COHEN DIRECTED BY JOE CALARCO

directed by Whitney White. It’s 1906, and at the Bronx Zoological Park, an African-American convict named “Smokey” (Andre Braugher) is guarding the zoo’s most sensational exhibit: Ota Benga (Antonio Michael Woodard), a Congolese pygmy. As the public’s fascination intensifies and protestors call for Ota’s release,

July 2 - Aug. 13: Tuesday Talkbacks, lively discussions with WTF company members, artistic staff, and special guests about the show you just saw.

Friday, July 5: Backstage Tours, learn how our shows go from page to stage. Visit the prop and costume shops and more, and see the festival from a whole new perspective, 6 p.m., $5.

Fridays: Fridays @3, spend the afternoon up close and personal with a play in development, read by brilliant actors. $5.

AN EVENING FILLED WITH SOME OF THE FUNNIEST SHORT PLAYS EVER WRITTEN!

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Jeff McCarthy

Debra Jo Rupp

Cary Donaldson

Ruth Pferdehirt

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FABULOUS NEW EXHIBITIONS

Woodstock to the Moon: 1969 Illustrated

Arnold Skolnick, Concert poster for the Woodstock festival, August 1969. ‘WOODSTOCK’ and the Dove & Guitar Logo are registered trademarks of Woodstock Ventures LC and are used under license.

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Inspired: Rockwell and Erikson MAJOR SPONSORS: Brenda & Jeffery Bleustein, Audrey & Ralph Friedner, Dena M. Hardymon, and

FUN Home Run! An All American Baseball Festival Saturday, July 6, 1 - 5 p.m.

Bill Scoville (1915-1996), Norman Rockwell with paintings of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson (detail), 1956. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. © Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.

Norman Rockwell: Private Moments

Art, Love, and Identity: Summer Talk Series

NEW! Thursday Evening Fun Series

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PLUS! Drop-In Art Programs for Kids, Historic Property Walks, Meet a Rockwell Model,... plan your amazing day at NRM.org/events

Enjoy alfresco dining on our covered terrace, with scenic views! See the menu online.

kids & teens free NRM.org • open daily 413.298.4100 9 Glendale Road/Rte. 183, Stockbridge, MA

The Final Impossibility: Man’s Tracks on the Moon, 1969 (detail). Collection of National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. © Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.

Tuesday Evenings, July 9 - August 20 4:30 p.m. Reception/5 p.m Talk