We missed this production the first time around a couple of years ago, and we’re really glad that Shakespeare & Co. is reprising “Hamlet.” We saw it yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. The performance is especially interesting because a real mother, son, and step-father have leading roles. Tina Packer is Gertrude, her son Jason Asprey [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Steve Martin and Martin Sheen to Join Garrison Keillor on June 27 A Prairie Home Companion
June 23rd, 2009 by philhalpern
Award-winning actors Steve Martin and Martin Sheen will join host Garrison Keillor on a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion from Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts on Saturday, June 27. The show’s guests will also include Stuart Duncan, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Fred Newman, and The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band. Keillor will celebrate the radio [...]
First Class Millay Opens June 16th
June 14th, 2009 by philhalpern
Glenora Richards is a miniaturist who painted a sizzling miniature portrait of Edna St. Vincent Millay, which was adapted into a postage stamp. At Steepletop (Millay’s home in the Berkshires), beginning June 16th you can view an exhibit which explores the art of this amazing, 100- year old woman. The exhibit will run through September, [...]
Brook Farm Inn on Facebook
June 5th, 2009 by philhalpern
Facebook is to social networking what Google is to searching. At Brook Farm Inn, we’ve discovered how to find former classmates or friends from the neighborhoods we grew up in, and reconnect with them. We’re excited that we can now share with you our Brook Farm Inn fan page. We can keep you up-to-date about happenings in the Berkshires [...]
Literary Lenox
June 3rd, 2009 by philhalpern
At Brook Farm Inn, we’re always interested in literary links to the original Brook Farm, for which the inn was named. Brook Farm was a utopian farm experiment — the original hippie commune, perhaps — that was founded by the Transcendentalists in the 1840′s. Hawthorne, Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and other famous intellectuals of the era [...]
Favorite Berkshires Restaurant Opens Pittsfield Location
Lenox B&B Recommends “Comedy of Errors”
Summer Play: Revels and Revelations
