Five contemporary playwrights — a few more if you fold in Shakespeare & Company’s new Plays in Process series — will be sharing Shakespeare & Company’s two indoor and two outdoor stages with two plays by the Bard of Avon.
Set in December 1940, August 1942 and May 1943, “Last Train to Nibroc” is about May and Raleigh, who meet by chance when they are forced to share a seat on a crowded eastbound coast-to-coast train.
In a new juried exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, which highlights a Berkshire painter and will travel to Massachusetts in 2024, the Baroque paradox makes a comeback.
"Turner's Modern World," on view through July 10 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston brings together more than 100 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketchbooks by J.M.W. Turner.
A new exhibition, "The Lincoln Memorial Illustrated," on view at the Norman Rockwell Museum through Sept. 5, examines the memorial's cultural significance with more than 50 pieces of historical and contemporary artworks.
'Hunt Country' featuring the works of Hunt Slonem is on view in the Berkshire Botanical Garden's Leonhardt Galleries through June 5.
'Hunt Country' is on view in the Berkshire Botanical Garden's Leonhardt Galleries through June 5.
Words matter. In Mark O’Rowe’s “The Approach," which opened over the weekend in a skillfully acted, if emotionally uninvolving, production at Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, unspoken words often matter more. Truth also matters. And in “The Approach” truth is virtual…
Counterculture, a new large-scale public artwork by mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson, will be on view at Field Farm beginning June 18.
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Two-time Tony Award-winner Chita Rivera has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing her to reschedule an upcoming concert at The Colonial Theatre.
More people are adorning their bodies and homes with themes from nature.
As 2021 comes to a close, let a little light, and hope, into your day with these images of local churches' stained glass windows. The Eagle Features Department hopes 2022 brings you all health, happiness and a little more color and light, in whatever form you need.
Twenty performing arts, museums and related organizations doing business or based in Berkshire County received $19.3 million from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Berkshire Theatre Group is lining up more live, in-person events this summer, announcing the addition of two concert series: Broadway Favorites and the return of Bobbie’s Summer Series.
Call me a wedding planner! Weddings, as we knew them prior to COVID-19, are on the horizon.
If all goes well, Massachusetts will relax its gathering restrictions for indoor and outdoor events on May 29, allowing for groups of 200 indoors and 250 outdoors; with a plan to remove all business restrictions on Aug. 1.
"I think that may be a sign. Aug. 1 is Herman Melville's birthday," said Lesley Herzberg, executive director of the Berkshire County Historical Society at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead, as over a dozen Berkshires-based wedding vendors primped the lawn of the historic farmhouse, at 780 Holmes Road, for a wedding-themed photo shoot.
The most powerfully comforting dishes combine the personal with the universal. In my kitchen, a bowl of soft polenta does exactly that.
What's better than attending a tea party? Attending a tea party with ginger scones and homemade jam!
This 5-ingredient, no-knead peasant bread is simple to make and ready in just three hours.
Although the most traditional combination would be strawberry-rhubarb, feel free to mix different combinations of fruits for this cobbler.
It's easy to love a great cocktail. Until you look at the numbers.
Antonio Bonilla, resident mixologist at the Apple Tree Inn's Ostrich Room, shares his spicier margarita recipe.
Former North Adams Transcript reporter and Adams native Donna Roberts has published her second novel, "Running with Hounds … and an English Degree."
Pittsfield-based author Kevin O’Hara is known through his books and decades of Berkshire Eagle columns for his warm, witty and whimsical tales. There are plenty of all three in his newly released book, but the title, “Ins and Outs of a Locked Ward: My 30 Years as a Psychiatric Nurse” tells r…
At a time when the news is filled with war, with civil unrest, with uncertainty, with fistshaking and fingerpointing, a little bit of kindness can go along way. With a seeming sixth sense for this universal need of messages for kindness and care, James Crews has partnered with Storey Publishing on a second anthology of poems, "The Path To Kindness," set to release on April 12.
Authors in and around the Berkshires have been busy. Here's a look at a few of the new works, ranging from collections of poetry to memoirs about less-than-friendly pooches, that have been published in the last 10 months.
Author Ruth Bass has released a new book in her series about the Sherman and Hibbard families.
The Mount has invited author Rebecca Hall to highlight the art and craft of memoir writing in the form of her graphic novel, "Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts." She'll participate in a virtual conversation with Courtney Maum on Thursday, Feb. 24.
