Williamstown Theatre Festival
'62 Center for Theatre and Dance
From June through August, WTF brings Tony award winning actors and veterans of television and film to perform in a series of plays, comedies, dramas, musicals, classics and new work.
Theatre
MASS MoCA
Downtown North Adams
Since its Building 6 opened in the summer of 2017, Mass MoCA has become one of the world’s largest contemporary art museums, with vast galleries and indoor and outdoor stages.
WordxWord
WordxWord
Spoken word poets run mentoring programs and writing workshops in Berkshire schools and hold events year-round, from National Poetry Month to an annual week-long summer festival in Pittsfield.
Oldcastle Theatre template
Oldcastle Theatre Company
Berkshire Theatre Group
Berkshire Theatre Group
With stages in Pittsfield and Stockbridge, the Berkshires’ oldest theatre company is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2018.
Shakespeare & Company
Shakespeare & Co.
Founded in 1977, Lenox’s well-established troupe performs Shakespearean classics, contemporary works, adaptations of Edith Wharton’s short stories and more from May to September.
Music
MASS MoCA
Downtown North Adams
Since its Building 6 opened in the summer of 2017, Mass MoCA has become one of the world’s largest contemporary art museums, with vast galleries and indoor and outdoor stages.
Solid Sound Festival
MASS MoCA
Wilco takes over Mass MoCA with this festivalcurated by Wilco and showcasing bandmembers new work, emerging bands, art and comedy.
Mass MoCA jam
Lickety Split at MASS MoCA
Enjoy coffee or breakfast while listening to some impromptu tunes at this weekly Saturday morning gathering.
Williams College music
Williams College
The college music department hosts a series of free concerts in the spring and fall semesters with faculty and visiting performers from across the country and across the world.
Tanglewood
Lenox
Symphony on the lawn, with crystal and silver picnics.
PERFORMING ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
March 23, 2019 3:00 PM - March 23, 2019 4:30 PM
Presented in The Clark Auditorium. Co-artistic directors Jeewon Park (piano) and Edward Arron (cello) join violinist Soovin Kim for a piano trio program. The award-winning chamber musicians present masterworks by Beethoven and Dvork. A reception for the artists follows the program. All ticket sales are non-refundable. This performance is presented through the generous support of […]
Spanglish Fly at MASS MoCA
March 23, 2019 8:00 PM - March 23, 2019 11:00 PM
Blending Afro-Caribbean rhythms with classic R&B and soul, the 12-piece-strong Spanglish Fly is NYC’s finest boogaloo band, updating the sounds of 1960s Spanish Harlem. Expect a night of deep grooves with wild covers and horn-heavy originals — wear your dancing shoes.
Lowland Hum with Anna Tivel and House Sparrow
late night at the lab
March 30, 2019 7:00 PM - March 30, 2019 10:30 PM
Doors 7:00 | Music starts at 7:30 LOWLAND HUM It’s 5:15 in the morning in a historic apartment building in downtown Charlottesville called The Pink Warehouse. Lauren and Daniel Goans, who you will know as the married, world-traveling, singer/songwriting folk duo Lowland Hum, are making their fourth full-length record, Glyphonic, in their studio apartment […]
Concert at St. Stanislaus
Adams Lions Club
March 31, 2019 1:00 AM - March 31, 2019 1:00 PM
Free chamber concert with historical commentary about local events at the time the music was composed.
THE LAO TIZER QUARTET
The Clark
April 5, 2019 7:30 PM - April 5, 2019 9:00 PM
Jazz Group of the Year nominee The Lao Tizer Quartet featuring Eric Marienthal make their debut at the Clark in support of their new Billboard Jazz Top 10 CD/DVD release, Songs from the Swinghouse! Led by pianist, keyboardist, composer, and former Best New Jazz Artist nominee Lao Tizer (Special EFX, Down to the Bone), the quartet also features […]
Chamber Orchestra of Williams
April 6, 2019 6:00 PM - April 6, 2019 7:30 PM
The Chamber Orchestra of Williams, an all-student, flexible instrumentation chamber ensemble dedicated to innovative programming, presents a multidimensional performance experience featuring music by Williams College Professor Zachary Wadsworth alongside Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Combining this music with poetry and art to create an immersive experience, this concert is dedicated to fostering of community by engagement […]
Sammus
April 13, 2019 8:00 PM - April 13, 2019 11:00 PM
Philly-based MC and beat-maker Sammus combines an explosive stage presence with head-spinning verbal pyrotechnics and an omnivorous curiosity — she’s as likely to geek out on gaming as to throw down on identity politics, making her performance a perfect companion to “Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass” in the big gallery. Whatever she’s rapping about, […]
Mitski at MASS MoCA
April 20, 2019 8:00 PM - April 20, 2019 10:00 PM
SOLD OUT Please contact the box office at (413) 662-2111 to be added to the waitlist With her breakout 2016 record Puberty 2 — all raw honesty and stripped down intensity — Mitski seemed to emerge into the indie limelight as a fully formed artist, immediately landing on every critic’s year’s best list. Her brilliant 2018 follow-up, Be the Cowboy, veers sonically […]
Les Nubians
Mass MoCA
May 11, 2019 8:00 PM - May 11, 2019 10:00 PM
Les Nubians is the French-Cameroonian duo whose 1998 debut earned a Grammy nom for its singular blend of warm R&B and francophone hip-hop. Two decades later, the grooves are as strong and danceable as ever — and the perfect party to close out North Adams’ first-ever O+ Festival. Co-Presented with O+ North Adams.
Jonathan Dely Concert
The Clark
May 18, 2019 7:00 PM - May 18, 2019 9:00 PM
Jazz trumpeter Jonathan Dely performs in concert with his swinging band featuring an exciting program of jazz, pop, and selections from the American Songbook. Dely’s live show is as dynamic and energetic as it is cool and romantic, as he delivers a cross-genre performance sure to delight audiences of all ages and musical tastes. Jonathan […]
Soul Science Lab
MASS MoCA
May 18, 2019 8:00 PM - May 18, 2019 10:00 PM
Trenton Doyle Hancock recently introduced us to Soul Science Lab, the music and multimedia duo Chen Lo and Asante Amin. Backed by a smoking-hot live band, they transport us on an inspiring journey of cross-cultural exploration via words and video, all wrapped in an irresistible soundtrack of hip-hop, funk, soul, and Afrobeat.
An Afternoon of Conversation and Song with Annie Lennox
May 25, 2019 4:00 PM - May 25, 2019 6:00 PM
To launch her exhibition, Annie Lennox: ‘Now I Let You Go…’, and to kick off a day-long celebration of MASS MoCA’s 20-year anniversary on May 25th, Lennox will share stories and perform songs in an afternoon solo performance to benefit The Annie Lennox Foundation (supporting social justice work around the issue of global feminism) and […]
Solid Sound Festival 2019
June 28 10:00 AM - June 30, 2019 11:00 PM
Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival returns to MASS MoCA this summer on June 28-30, 2019. Join us for a weekend of music, comedy, art and more at the largest contemporary art museum in the US. Full lineup TBA. 3 day passes are available now and include $20 museum fee that allows guests access to the entire […]
Party in the Park
North Adams
Annual summer concert series that is free and open the public.
BarN
Concert Venue
An intimate setting for acoustic music.
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Since Ted Shawn established a revolutionary company for men on a mountaintop more than 85 years ago, Jacob’s Pillow has become a force in the international world of dance. …
Ian Berg / Subject:Matter
May 4, 2019 8:00 PM - May 4, 2019 10:00 PM
Co-presented with Jacob’s Pillow. Expect live music and high-flying hoofing at this work-in-progress performance as Boston-based choreographer Ian Berg examines the intersections of tap and jazz, specifically how standards — like “Take the A Train” in jazz and “The Shim Sham Song” in tap — work to maintain our collective memory.
Film
Exhibition on Screen: Rembrandt
The Clark
April 20, 2019 3:00 PM - April 20, 2019 4:30 PM
Every Rembrandt exhibition is eagerly anticipated, but this major show hosted by London’s National Gallery and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum was an event like no other. With privileged access to both galleries, the film documents this landmark exhibition while interweaving Rembrandt’s life story with behind-the-scenes preparations at these world-famous institutions. Exploring many of the exhibition’s key works […]
Images Cinema
Images Cinema
Images Cinema is a year-round community film house, showing contemporary movies, documentaries, art and international films and more.
Family Programs
Rock On!
Pittsfield
Explore rock, blues, and jazz with a great faculty. All levels welcome from Beginners to Advanced players.
Starlight Stage Youth Theater
Williamstown
Since being founded in 1976, hundreds of young people from the Berkshire County, southern Vermont and eastern New York state area have participated in the programs.
Classes & Workshops
Assets for Artists
Assets for Artists, a project of Mass MoCA, helps artists in many disciplines to find and build financial and business resources and supports artists in moving to the area. Resources can include a matched savings grant program for individual artists, professional development workshops and one-on-one coaching, a residency program at Mass MoCA and more.
FreshGrass Festival
Mass MoCA
FreshGrass is rich in both traditional and cutting-edge bluegrass, presented in a wide array of venues tucked appropriately into a 19th-century factory turned 21st-century museum.
Rock On!
Pittsfield
Explore rock, blues, and jazz with a great faculty. All levels welcome from Beginners to Advanced players.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Since Ted Shawn established a revolutionary company for men on a mountaintop more than 85 years ago, Jacob’s Pillow has become a force in the international world of dance. …
Starlight Stage Youth Theater
Williamstown
Since being founded in 1976, hundreds of young people from the Berkshire County, southern Vermont and eastern New York state area have participated in the programs.
Sonatina Piano Camps
Bennington, VT
Immersive piano camps for adults and children of all level. 10- and 5-day piano camps for adults and 4 week piano camps for children in the summer.
Berkshire Stringed Instruments: School of Lutherie
North Adams
Comprehensive, hands on courses in guitar, mandolin and ukulele construction.
Williamstown Theatre Festival internships
Williamstown Theatre Festival
WTF has developed a range of programs to support developing actors, playwrights and directors, including a Playwright in residence, writing residencies and a weekly reading series for works in progress.
