This is Berkshires theater at its best. Guests of Brook Farm Inn, Lenox Massachusetts B&B, are recommending this play! Link to Barrington Stage Co. from http://brookfarm.com/the-berkshires/arts-entertainment/ The Best of Enemies By Mark St. Germain Inspired by The Best of Enemies by Osha Gray Davidson Directed by Julianne Boyd July 21, 2011 – August 6, 2011 [...]
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Move Over Victor Borge, It’s “Ludwig Live!”
July 1st, 2011 by philhalpern
Ludwig Live! We attended this show, in Lenox, MA, on Monday. Today is Friday and we’re still laughing. It was written just for the Berkshires audience, and at Brook Farm Inn, the guests who’ve seen it have loved it. Holding court at the grand piano once played by Leonard Bernstein (who did stay at Seven [...]
Open Marriage: Renegade Wife of the Gilded Age
June 26th, 2011 by philhalpern
Opening on June 29th at Ventfort Hall (The Museum of the Gilded Age) is a play about the life of Elsie Clews Parsons — radical thinker, Phd, Anthropologist, mother of four children, and author of several books. Born in the late 1800s to one the wealthiest, most genteel families in America (her father was Henry [...]
Shakespeare and Language in Lenox MA
March 27th, 2011 by philhalpern
Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World Every Saturday in April beginning on the 2nd Shakespeare & Company will be performing a special program written by Kevin Coleman at 1 pm in the Bernstein Theater. This whirlwind tour through the life, times and work of William Shakespeare features six Shakespeare & Company actors, about a truck load of [...]
Berkshire Theaters Announce Season
February 25th, 2011 by philhalpern
Guests of Brook Farm Inn, our Lenox bed and breakfast, will be glad to see the new offerings of Berkshire Theatre Festival and the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. These theaters now are a combined organization. Season highlights will include “The Who’s Tommy,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Sylvia” by A. R. Gurney, a Tennessee Williams play. [...]
Shakespeare & Co. Offers Presidents’ Weekend Entertainment
February 14th, 2011 by philhalpern
It’s here! The Mystery of Irma Vep. Among the Presidents’ Weekend offerings in the Berkshires, is this play at Shakespeare & Co. You can walk there from our Lenox B&B. “Even a bouquet of wolfsbane could not keep laughter from the door. A masterpiece.” (The New York Times) The notorious Kevin G. Coleman is back [...]
Berkshires Winter Theater
January 11th, 2011 by philhalpern
Next up at Shakespeare & Co. is The Mystery of Irma Vep! The notorious Kevin G. Coleman is back at it again (Rough Crossing, The Ladies Man and last summer’s The Winter’s Tale), this time with a zany romp through the mysterious and the sublime. The Mystery of Irma Vep: A features two actors—Josh Aaron McCabe and [...]
Celebrate the season in Lenox at “Santaland Diaries”
December 13th, 2010 by philhalpern
Make a date with Crumpet at Santaland— it’s at Shakespeare & Co., just around the corner from our Lenox B&B. Subversive, clever, engagingly poignant and always side-splittingly funny, The Santaland Diaries true account of David Sedaris’ time spent working as a Christmas elf in Macy’s Department Store is well on its way to becoming a [...]
Vicki Lawrence is coming to the Berkshires
October 9th, 2010 by philhalpern
Comedian Vicki Lawrence — remember the “Carol Burnett Show?” — will be at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield on October 23rd, 2010. She’ll perform as herself, and also as her character, Mama, from the show. At Brook Farm Inn, your Lenox B&B, we still have lots of green leaves, so we think there will still be plenty [...]
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA APPOINTS ANDRIS NELSONS
“On The Town” Comes to the Berkshires in June
Berkshire International Film Festival May 30-June 2