• The MET Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s Tosca

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    $25 / $10 ages 21 and under  ConnectorCare/WIC/EBT Card to Culture*  This screening is an encore date per Mahaiwe scheduling. Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production, transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company […]

    $25
  • Met Opera in HD: Mozart’s The Magic Flute

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    This was the groundbreaking broadcast that launched the Met’s heralded Live in HD series, seen by opera lovers in movie theaters around the world. Adults and children alike were enchanted by the whimsical humor and breathtaking puppetry of Julie Taymor’s hit production, presented in a shortened English-language version. Under the baton of Maestro James Levine, […]

    $25
  • COWS AND HOLLY: SANDRA BOYNTON TRIES TO EXPLAIN HER WILD NEW CHRISTMAS ALBUM

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Just in time for Christmas! Cartoonist, writer, and songwriter Sandra Boynton presents her most recent album/songbook, Cows and Holly, created alongside her long-time music collaborator, Michael Ford.

    $10
  • John Pizzarelli Big Band “Dear Mr. Sinatra”

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Mr. Pizzarelli salutes the Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, performing with an excellent 17-piece big band that kicks with a brawling, Count Basie-like exuberance. He will play songs written for Sinatra including Witchcraft, Wee Small Hours and Ring a Ding Ding, salute his collaboration with Antonio Carlos Jobim and will also play a number […]

    $49
  • José González

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Indie-folk singer-songrwriter/guitarist José González is in a class by himself. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “someone whose subtle, carefully crafted music delivers rewards to listeners who know how to wait,” González’s stellar career can only be described as a dream. From selling out tours on virtually every continent to headlining prestigious festivals around the world to being asked […]

    $49
  • London’s National Theatre in HD: “The Importance of Being Earnest”

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade. Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two […]

    $17
  • Met Opera Live in HD: Beethoven’s “Fidelio”

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Completing the distinguished cast is British tenor David Butt Philip as the political prisoner Florestan, Polish bass-baritone […]

    $25
  • Patton Oswalt: “Effervescent”

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Patton Oswalt has a brand-new hour of his signature apocalyptic, pop culture comedy. He’s older, way less wise, and going through some stuff. Come see the hilarious train wreck. He’ll be dead in thirty or forty years so this might be your last chance to catch him.

    $39
  • London’s National Theatre in HD: Dr. Strangelove

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove.”  This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack, is led by a world-renowned creative team including Emmy Award-winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley. (Running time: 150 minutes – to […]

    $17
  • Met Opera Live in HD: Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro”

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    On April 26, Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian […]

    $25
  • Shakespeare & Company Free Community Day

    Shakespeare & Company 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA

    Shakespeare & Company will hold its second-annual free Community Day on Saturday, May 24 from 11 am – 4 pm, Memorial Day Weekend! This event features live demonstrations and performances, scavenger hunts, film screenings, food trucks with lunches and snacks for purchase, and dozens of other local nonprofits sharing the many ways we all serve […]

    Free
  • Met Opera Live in HD: Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”

    Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA

    Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, CountAlmaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-8 baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don […]

    $25

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