A lively little roundup of what’s happening around town, updated with local blog posts from a wide variety of websites.
From live local soul music at The Garage and rock at Spice Dragon to productions of award-winning plays and musicals at Taconic High School, Miss Hall’s School and Berkshire Community College, there is plenty for you to do in Cultural Pittsfield this week! Continue reading
“The Producers,” which won 12 Tonys and ran for over 2,500 performances in New York, opens tonight in a BCC Players production at the Robert Boland Theater at Berkshire Community College’s Koussevitzky Arts Center, where it is scheduled to run this weekend and next. Continue reading
The Spurs USA, based in Great Barrington, will be the first country band to play at Guitar Jam, performing along with three other groups. The event takes place Saturday, May 19, at The Colonial Theatre. Continue reading
Tap dance exhibition, live concert, theatrical revue — the Minnesota- based touring ensemble Rhythmic Circus aims to be all of this and perhaps a bit more. Continue reading
The largest free event series in western Massachusetts kicks off its sixth year on Thursday, May 17 in downtown Pittsfield. 3rd.Thursdays, a free, family-friendly street festival is held on the third Thursday of each month from May through October in the hub of Berkshire County from 5pm-8pm. Continue reading
The Pittsfield Suns Baseball Club (Futures Collegiate Baseball League) will host a job fair and national anthem tryouts at historic Wahconah Park on Friday, May 11 and Monday, May 14. Continue reading
This city embraced its creators of painting, sculpture, photography, film and other visual expression Friday evening at its first ever Arts Walk, but it also acknowledged its reputation as a center of jazz performance. Continue reading
Playbill previews Barrington Stage Company’s upcoming summer season, including highlighted actors and performances beginning in May and lasting through September. Continue reading
Over the past three days, a host of people dressed as elves, Ninja, assassins, wizards and other assorted heroes passed into the Crown Plaza lobby to the second floor convention area to participate in BAMCon, the first-ever anime and gaming convention in Berkshire County. Continue reading
Hancock Shaker Village got its 2012 season off to a good start when it set an attendance record for its popular Baby Animals on the Shaker Farm event. A total of 14,600 people traveled to Hancock Shaker Village to visit the baby lambs, piglets, calves, goats, ducklings and chicks on display in the Round Stone Barn during the 10th annual event’s 22-day run between April 7 and 29. Continue reading
From live local music and dance, like jazz at Baba Louie’s and hip-hop at The Garage to Latin and breakdancing classes at the YMCA, to award-winning documentary and independent films at The Little Cinema inside the Berkshire Museum, there is plenty for you to do in Cultural Pittsfield this week! Continue reading
Starting today and on subsequent first Fridays of every month, participating businesses will simultaneously unveil new exhibits of paintings, photographs and other works from local and regional artists. Continue reading
For the past year, the Berkshire Film and Media Commission has been in talks with filmmaker Swamy Kandan about bringing a script to shoot in Berkshire County. Together, this spring, they are making it happen. Continue reading
Berkshire County will host its first ever full-scale weekend anime convention at the Crowne Plaza hotel this Friday through Sunday, May 4-6, in what organizers hope will be a unique new annual happening. Continue reading
Patrons of Pittsfield’s First Friday Artswalk, which kicks off its inaugural Friday tomorrow evening, will be able to experience art in 25 different venues ranging from the more classic gallery walls of the Berkshire Museum and the Ferrin Gallery to the uncommon spaces like Mad Macs, Inc. and Paul Rich and Sons Home Furnishings and Designs on North Street. Continue reading
Mary McGinnis has a couple of goals in mind for the “First Fridays Artswalk” series she is spearheading in downtown Pittsfield, mainly to attract visitors and residents to downtown Pittsfield. Continue reading
Pittsfield’s new Upstreet Cultural District will be booming this Friday, May 4th, when the inaugural First Fridays Artswalk kicks off! Click here to receive a sneak preview of the featured artists and locations. Continue reading
Tyler Fairbanks’s nights are filled with his passions: He’s the lead singer and guitarist for Dalton-based T-Bone Daddy, one of four bands chosen by fans to perform in Guitar Jam IV at the Colonial Theatre on May 19. Continue reading
According to Pittsfield Mayor Daniel L. Bianchi, the $1.7 million completion of the first phase of the First Street Common reclamation project has “breathed new life into the Common,” as city and state officials gathered on First Street on Wednesday to recognize the completion of the first phase of the upgrading of one of Pittsfield’s oldest urban open spaces. Continue reading
Politicians, police, writers and many other area residents lent their voice to a new Melville-themed talking bench for downtown, as part of Pittsfield’s summerlong “Call Me Melville” celebration of all things related to the famed author and his whale of an epic. Continue reading
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