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Lift Ev'ry Voice Festival returns

Submitted by Andrew Murphy, Web Producer
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013, 9:04am

 

NORTH ADAMS – The Second Lift Ev’ry Voice Festival is back for its second year celebrating African-American heritage and culture in the Berkshires through a lineup of events and performances throughout Berkshire County from June 15-August 4.

The inaugural Lift Ev'ry Voice festival was first held in 2011. It featured over fifty different events from Great Barrington to North Adams attended by over 30,000 people, ranging from free street festivals to Earth Wind & Fire at Tanglewood.

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Broken Glass to be performed at Williams

Submitted by Andrew Murphy, Web Producer
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013, 7:43am

 

WILLIAMSTOWN – On Thursday, May 2 and Saturday, May 4, Williamstheatre continues its celebration of the works of Arthur Miller with his play Broken Glass.

Nominated for a Tony Award, Broken Glass is a play about awakenings. Its has been described as a spiritual detective story.

Tickets are $3. The show is at 7:30 p.m. in the Adams Memorial Theatre. 

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Aziz Ansari comes to The Palace

Submitted by Andrew Murphy, Web Producer
Friday, March 22nd, 2013, 10:46am
Aziz Ansari comes to The Palace

 

ALBANY – On Tuesday, May 14, comedian Aziz Ansari will bring his special brand of comedy to The Palace Theatre.

Ansari currently co-stars on the hit, Emmy nominated NBC comedy Parks and Recreation. He has released his second comedy special and been named the Funniest Man under 30 by Rolling Stone as well as one of the Top 10 Comedians of the Decade by Paste Magazine.

Tickets are $27 and $32 and are available at the Palace Box Office or by calling 1800-745-3000. 

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New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band comes to The Clark

Submitted by Andrew Murphy, Web Producer
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013, 2:29pm

 

WILLIAMSTOWN – On Friday, February 8, days before the Fat Tuesday festivities back home, Louisiana’s Preservation Hall Jazz Band will perform at the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute.

A pre show dinner will be served at 6p.m. in the Clark Café. Tickets for the meal are $27 and reservations are required.

Then at 8p.m., the famed sounds of New Orleans will be performed by the band.

The band derives its name from Preservation Hall, the venerable music venue located in the heart of New Orleans’s French Quarter and founded in 1961 by Allan and Sandra Jaffe.

The band has traveled worldwide, spreading their mission to nurture and perpetuate the art form of New Orleans jazz—a mission strengthened by the devastation brought about by Hurricane Katrina in 2007.

  For more information please call, 413-458-0524, or visit ClarkArt.EDU

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Ben-Hur at The Clark

Submitted by Andrew Murphy, Web Producer
Friday, January 25th, 2013, 1:31pm

 

WILLIAMSTOWN – On Saturday, January 26, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will be presenting a free screening of Ben-Hur as part of their Widescreen Wonders film series.

Ben-Hur, adapted from the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, was the most expensive movie ever made at the time, its sets were the largest ever built, and the nine-minute chariot race has become one of the most famous sequences in film history.

Widescreen Wonders is a free series of Saturday afternoon matinees celebrating the biggest and best of popular classic movies. Each film boasts a super-widescreen aspect ratio and numerous Academy Awards including Best Picture.

The show is at 2p.m., for more information, Please Call, 413-458-2303. 

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Williams Wind Ensemble to perform

Submitted by Andrew Murphy, Web Producer
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012, 11:21am
WILLIAMSTOWN - The Williams College Department of Music presents a concert with the Williams College Wind Ensemble in Chapin Hall on Friday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. This free event is open to the public. The Williams College Wind Ensemble melds contemporary and traditional art music for winds and percussion. Conductor Heidi Johanna Miller leads the Williams College Wind Ensemble in a concert of wind music that spans one hundred years of repertoire. Familiar works by Gounod, Rodrigo, and Khachaturian are complemented by works of living composers. Ms. Miller presents her own transcription of Gladsome Light by Pavel Tchesnokov. The ensemble also offers a world premiere of Road Stories by Jennifer Higdon.
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Something WICKED returns to Proctors

Submitted by Andrew Murphy, Web Producer
Friday, November 9th, 2012, 10:10am
Something WICKED returns to Proctors

SCHENECTADY – As the lights go down on the Mainstage a roar of the crowd erupts. A crowd of young and old, delighted and energetic about the show they are about to see. A show of friendship and the trials everyone must face to be accepted and do what we feel is right.

WICKED, the Tony-Award winning musical began its second run at Proctors on Wednesday.

Highly entertaining for all ages the show is packed full of laughs and emotion.

Everyone knows the story of Dorothy and Toto. Twister comes, house falls, and the Witch of the East is dead. But what do you know really?  Was Glinda as “Good” as she seems. What made the Wicked Witch so, well, Wicked?

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