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Jazz and tap can warm Williams College’s ‘62 Center on an early March night. Angelique Kidjo, flying in from Benin, can fill Mass MoCA’s auditorium in winter and bring the crowd to their feet. Live performances in the Berkshires span the globe and the year.

The summer season overflows, and thousands of visitors come for dance, theater and music, from Wilco’s bi-annual Solid Sound Festival to the Williamstown Theatre Festival, to FreshGrass each September.
The High Mud Comedy Fest brings in internationally known comedians to lighten up mid-March.
Jacob’s Pillow and Mass MoCA bring dance companies and choreographers from all parts of the world.
Images Cinema in Williamstown and Oldcastle Theatre in Bennington screen classics and new works, often with the film-makers on hand.

Theatre

Barrington Stage Company

Barrington Stage

Performing musicals, comedy and drama, including new works.

Berkshire Theatre Group

With stages in Pittsfield and Stockbridge, this the Berkshires’ oldest theatre company.

Oldcastle Theatre Company

Star Choir, Phase 2: Process

62 Center for Theatre and Dance

February 26, 2021

An introduction to a multi-part engagement with interdisciplinary artists Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade.

WAM theatre

“Where Art and Activism Meet” WAM creates opportunities for women and girls through their mission of theatre as philanthropy.

Williams College ’62 Center

Williams College

Hosting theater and dance performances year-round while the college is in session.

Williamstown Theatre Festival

'62 Center for Theatre and Dance

WTF brings award winning actors and veterans of television and film to perform in a series of plays, comedies, dramas, musicals, classics and new work.

Music

BarN

Concert Venue

An intimate setting for acoustic music.

HiLo North Adams

HiLo North Adams is a music and comedy venue with a bar located in a revitalized building in downtown North Adams.

MASS MoCA

Downtown North Adams

MASS MoCA is one of the world’s largest contemporary art museums, with vast galleries and indoor and outdoor stages.

Misty Blues Virtual CD Release Concert

The Linda at WAMC

February 15 - February 17, 2021

Join in Misty Blues 10th Album CD Release Concert broadcast live from The Linda … WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio.

Party in the Park

North Adams

Annual summer concert series that is free and open the public.

Solid Sound Festival

MASS MoCA

Wilco takes over Mass MoCA with this festival curated by the band and showcasing bandmembers new work, emerging bands, art and comedy.

Tanglewood

Lenox

Symphony on the lawn, with crystal and silver picnics plus family-friendly events.

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.

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.

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

An ever-growing online collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today is available free to all.

Williams College ’62 Center

Williams College

Hosting theater and dance performances year-round while the college is in session.

Film

Images Cinema

Williamstown

Images Cinema is a year-round community film house, showing contemporary movies, documentaries, art and international films and more.

Psycho Goreman

Images Cinema

January 22 - February 4, 2021

“A crowd-pleaser reminiscent of ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘The Goonies’ and ‘E.T.,’” — Variety

Some Kind of Heaven

Images Cinema

January 15 - January 28, 2021

An entertaining exploration of life inside the palm-tree-lined streets of The Villages, a planned retirement community in Florida.

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

Berkshire Stringed Instruments: School of Lutherie

North Adams

Comprehensive, hands on courses in guitar, mandolin and ukulele construction.

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.

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.

Rock On!

Pittsfield

Explore rock, blues, and jazz with a great faculty. All levels welcome from Beginners to Advanced players.

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.

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.

Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI)

Tanglewood

Tanglewood brings unique and immersive learning experiences to its audience through the Learning Institute.

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.