Through Sun June 28
Paul Taylor Dance Company is one of the world’s leading dance organizations, based in NYC and with international reach. The company has returned to Jacob’s Pillow this summer for the first time in seven years to perform a mixed program in the Ted Shawn Theatre that will include Esplanade, Brandenburgs, and Company B. Read "Sacred Ground," from Berkshire Magazine's May/June issue. “The Pillow is the origin place of modern dance,” says Michael Novak, artistic director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. “Our art form literally came from there. It’s sacred ground, and it means a lot to perform there.” More info
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Fri June 26, 9:15 p.m.
The long-awaited performance of Mermaid Avenue is on Friday at Solid Sound at MASS MoCA in North Adams. The concert is sold out, but the galleries will be open to the public 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Fri & Sat and 10 a.m.–5 p.m. on Sun. Check out the article “Giving Voice to Woody Guthrie’s Unheard Lyrics” in our May/June issue. Writer Benjamin Lerner talks with Billy Bragg, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, and Woody’s daughter Nora Guthrie. More info
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Sat June 27, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
At this free community event at the Bidwell House Museum in Monterey, visitors will have the opportunity to see numerous craft demonstrations, listen to music from Shinbone Alley, help build a wigwam, take a mini tour of the Museum, complete a scavenger hunt and more. This event is FREE. (Sponsored) More info
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Fri June 26, 7 p.m.
Founded in 1988, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis tours the world performing a vast repertoire of music, from historic and rare compositions to commissioned works. The group’s compositions and arrangements include works by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Charles Mingus, as well as new music from the group’s unrivalled collection of world-renowned composers and arrangers. Catch this incredible performance on Friday night at Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge. More info
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Through July 11
Written by Chess Jakobs, The American Five explores pivotal moments in the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Bayard Rustin, Stanley Levison and Clarence B. Jones during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Set in the tense days leading up to the March on Washington, the play examines the strategy, collaboration and moral conviction behind one of the most consequential events in American history. Following the 2 p.m. June 27 performance at Berkshire Theatre Group's Unicorn Theatre, audiences are invited to stay for a conversation with artists. More info
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On newsstands now
Our just-released July issue is here for your reading pleasure—by the lake, on the Tanglewood lawn, in a cafe, at home, or wherever it might be. You can find the latest issue on newsstands and in mailboxes now. On the cover is Alec Baldwin, who will be at Tanglewood on July 5. And check out a clip of our exclusive interview with Alec! Also in this issue are stories on Jason Isbell, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Heather Headley, and more. Subscribe now
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July 1–Aug 20
The Tanglewood Learning Institute and Mass Audubon are offering “Time Traveling with Tanglewood’s Trees and the Lenox Landscape,” a tour of the BSO’s summer campus, on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Read "Exploring Tanglewood's Trees" in the just-released July issue of Berkshire Magazine. More info
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Mon and Tues, July 6 and 7
Join Russian-born journalist Julia Ioffe, one of America's most influential voices on Russia-US relations, as she discusses her new book, Motherland. Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the lives of its women, tracing Russia’s turbulent journey—from revolution to utopia to autocracy—through the biographies of revolutionaries, political wives, Soviet women soldiers, and contemporary dissidents. She reveals how one of the twentieth century’s most audacious social experiments that promised women liberation, failed them profoundly, giving shape to the Russia of today. (Sponsored) More info
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