The British Motor Car Show returns to Lenox, MA for a second year from Friday June 15 to the 17th.  The show will be based this year on the Shakespeare and Company property around the block from Brook Farm Inn Bed and Breakfast.

On Friday British Motorcars with appropriate Festival credentials will be parked on the diagonal on Main Street. The Town of Lenox will host a Street Party from 6:30 till 9:30 complete with a live British Tribute Band and street vendors providing food and beverage service.

Saturday The Concours d’Elegance is a “Judged” competition, attracting exceptional show cars.  All cars must be British and over 15 years old.

Sunday A display of creativity, good food, and things British. This event has become a “Classic” and perhaps one of the best Tailgate Competitions on the East Coast! Awards will be given for “Most Elegant”, “Most Creative”, “Most British”, “Best Costume”, “Best Tasting”, “Most Humorous”, and “Most Shakespearean”.

The cost for General Public Admission is $15.00 for a two day pass inclusive for both Saturday and Sunday Admissions.

Special Offer for registered participants who are coming with their classic British Motor Cars:

Stay two nights (in any room) and the second night is only $99.00 (plus tax).  Full breakfast and afternoon tea are included.

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There is poetry here…it’s what distinguishes Brook Farm Inn, in Lenox MA.  And our Berkshires B&B will be hosting a poetry reading by the distinguished James Arthur, on Saturday, June 2nd at 3:00 P.M. James is this year’s recipient of the Amy Clampitt fellowship, so he’s currently residing in Amy Clampitt’s home in Lenox.  James Arthur‘s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and Narrative. We eagerly anticipate the publication of his new book this fall.

“That feeling of becoming a new person in a different place, even if it’s an illusion, is intoxicating to me, and always has been. I love writing about places, but only places where I don’t belong.” —James Arthur

Guests staying at Brook Farm Inn are invited to attend the poetry event, which will include refreshments. Anyone interested in joining us can phone at 800-285-7638. (POET)

There’s great theater in the Berkshires in March and April.  Berkshire Theatre Festival, in Stockbridge, is a few short miles from our Lenox bed and breakfast.

Relationships aren’t easy and Simon has it right as he shows how a relationship with yourself can be the toughest of all.   Recent widower, George Schneider, starts dating Jennie Malone and she’s a keeper. Still, it’s a bumpy trip for these two hurt and lonely people’ The play is about the growth of love and how George and Jennie struggle to overcome their individual pasts to create a joint future.

 CHAPTER TWO  is directed by Thomas Gruenewald (Sharon CT) features Andrew Joffe (Craryville, NY,) Karen Lee (Lenox, MA,) Louise Pillai (Copake, NY,) and Fred Thaler (Cornwall Bridge, CT.)

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 DEAR LIAR 
by Jerome Kilty

April 27 & 28 at The Unicorn Theatre
May 4 & 5 at The TriArts’ Bok Gallery

 A “comedy of letters” between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, one of his favorite actresses.  The play is a set of verbal duets teeming with vigor, venom and affection. These are love letters without a love affair that record the joys and heartaches of life.  Temperamental Actress Campbell could be impossible, but tough Playwright Shaw could at times seem inhuman. Yet their friendship survived separation, hardship and heartbreak until the end.

 DEAR LIAR is directred by Linda Josephs (Great Barrington, MA) and features Deann Halper (Sheffield, MA) and Macey Levin (Taconic, CT.) ]]> http://brookfarm.com/blog/2012/03/berkshires-theater-performances-for-march-and-april/feed/ 0 http://brookfarm.com/blog/2012/03/3091/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3091 http://brookfarm.com/blog/2012/03/3091/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:23:09 +0000 philhalpern http://brookfarm.com/?p=3091 Berkshires summer theater is going to be great this year.  Williamstown Theatre Festival is popular among Brook Farm Inn guests, so here’s the 2012 program.

MAIN STAGE
 
June 26 – July 14
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
By Oscar Wilde
Directed by David Hyde Pierce

What if a family of Guys and Dolls-style gangsters moved to Downton Abbey-style London in order to escape certain, shall we say, entanglements? What if two of these wise guys fell hard for two tough dolls? And what if the formidable dame who runs the aforementioned criminal family developed an appetite for cucumber sandwiches? Director David Hyde Pierce gives us Oscar Wilde’s hilarious high society satire in a very new way. Welcome to the family.

July 19 – 29
FAR FROM HEAVEN
Book by Richard Greenberg, Music by Scott Frankel, Lyrics by Michael Korie
Directed by Michael Greif
With Kelli O’Hara
A Preview Production

Cathy Whitaker seems to be the picture-perfect wife and mother in 1957 suburban Connecticut.  But roiling beneath the surface, secret longings and forbidden desires cause her world to unravel – with incendiary consequences.  With a lush score that is both jazz-inflected and hauntingly lyrical, Far From Heaven is a powerful story of romance, betrayal, intolerance, and a woman grappling with her own identity in a society on the verge of great upheaval.

August 1 – 19
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY
By Ivan Turgenev
Translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Directed by Richard Nelson
World Premiere Translation

It looks to be a long life of sylvan contentment for 29-year-old Natalya, who is comfortably married with a young son.  One day, without warning, she falls under the influence of a force she has never known before: desire.  Suddenly, her simple, predictable world is irrevocably changed. Both romantic and psychologically compelling, this rare production of Turgenev’s masterful A Month in the Country honors the Festival’s tradition of celebrating great works of Russian drama with some of America’s greatest actors.  This revelatory new translation is the first collaboration between playwright Richard Nelson and Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature (War and Peace, The Brothers Karamozov, and the best-selling Oprah’s Book Club selection, Anna Karenina). 

NIKOS STAGE

June 27 – July 8
THE BLUE DEEP
By Lucy Boyle
Directed by Bob Balaban
With Blythe Danner
World Premiere
 
Though only in her twenties, Lila Miller is stuck, while her mother, Grace, is perpetually in motion. When Lila returns home to her family’s exquisite Hamptons house and garden with only a plastic bag and a broken heart, there’s no nurturing to be found, except as pertains to horticulture. The same painful history that threatens to drive mother and daughter permanently apart ultimately evolves into the one realm where reconnection might be possible. The Blue Deep is an achingly honest and funny play about loss, growing up, and the benefits of aquaerobics.
 
July 11 – 22
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS
By Neil Simon
Directed by Jessica Stone

Meet Barney Cashman. He’s a middle-aged restaurant manager who has a very nice married existence.  But he’s tired of existing; he wants to live – before it’s too late.  Maybe one afternoon of passion could be so exhilarating, so vivid, that the memory alone would sate his desire for more. Three women, three afternoons, three shots at living in Technicolor.  As she did with her lauded WTF production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, director Jessica Stone reveals the humanity and the hilarity of this oft-overlooked early work of Neil Simon.

July 25 – August 4
Nikos Stage 3 – TBD

August 8 – 19
WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!
By Katori Hall
World Premiere
Presented in association with Signature Theatre

One-percenter Eden Higgenbotham lives a cushy Upper-East-Side life surrounded by equally affluent, vain, and snobbish friends.  When a sudden stroke causes her to contract the very rare Foreign Accent Syndrome, which makes her speak uncontrollably with a Jamaican accent, she’s forced to embrace a dramatically altered identity.  Irreverent and hilarious, WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! is a searing satire of race and class by the Olivier Award-winning writer of The Mountaintop, Katori Hall.

FREE THEATRE

July 18 – 27
THE VALLEY OF FEAR
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle adapted by Steve Lawson

Celebrating its 25th anniversary with the return of Sherlock Holmes, the Free Theatre will present The Valley of Fear, adapted by WTF veteran Steve Lawson from the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes saga, launched the Free Theatre in 1987, and now the legendary sleuth returns in this new theatrical version of Conan Doyle’s final novel. Spectators will don their crime-solving caps and lend Holmes and Dr. Watson a hand, with gasps and laughs guaranteed for all.  Presented under the stars at Poker Flats Field.

Shakespeare & Company’s Box Office will be open regular hours Wednesday-Sunday from 11-3.
Order tickets by calling 413-637-3353, or visit us at 70 Kemble Street in Lenox during those hours.

Also, don’t forget that the Moliere comedy The Learned Ladies is playing now through March 25th.  It is directed by Tina Packer and staring a talented cast of familiar faces.  All performances are right here in Lenox MA around the block from Brook Farm Inn bed and breakfast in the Berkshires.