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MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

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Great Barrington, MA 01230

Upcoming Shows

Grief... A Comedy
Jun 12 – Jun 13, 2026

Grief... A Comedy is a solo performance written and performed by Alison Larkin, directed by Scott Floyd Lochmus with music by Gary Schreiner. The show...

Close Encounters With Music Presents: Romance of the Romani!—Ravel, Bartok, Liszt, Haydn and Brahms
Close Encounters With Music Presents: Romance of the Romani!—Ravel, Bartok, Liszt, Haydn and Brahms
Jun 14

Close Encounters With Music concludes its acclaimed 34th season with Romance of the Romani!, a thrilling afternoon of passion, virtuosity, and musical storytelling inspired by...

Lucia di Lammermoor
Aug 22 – Aug 28, 2026

Berkshire Opera Festival presents a new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, conducted by Brian Garman and directed by Jonathon Loy. The cast features Christine...



Review: DRIVING MISS DAISY at Barrington Stage Company


by Marc Savitt - June 07, 2026

Cast and Crew deliver a high-quality production that is both simple and sublime; historically accurate, topically relevant; and well worth seeing. BSC Artistic Director, Alan Paul said: 'It's fair to say that Daisy has become an American classic, and when you watch the show, you will see how contemp...

Review: Darren Criss Kicks Off New Concert Dates in Boston


by R. Scott Reedy - June 03, 2026

What did our critic think of AN EVENING WITH DARREN CRISS at Emerson Colonial Theatre?...

Review: SELECTED SHORTS at The Adams Theater


by Marc Savitt - June 03, 2026

Listening to SELECTED STORIES is a delight. The actors bring energy, nuance, intonation, inflection, and character to every aspect of the story they are telling. Having them do so live, in-person to a room full of enthusiastic audience member reactions made it even more so....

Review: JOHN & JEN at Berkshire Theatre Group


by Marc Savitt - May 31, 2026

As BTG's Artistic Director, CEO Kate Maguire stated: 'Through moments of joy, heartbreak, humor and healing, JOHN & JEN explores the enduring connections between siblings, parents and children- the people who remain part of us across a lifetime.  With Andrew Lippa's moving score and a story filled ...

Review: The Huntington's OEDIPUS EL REY Turns Tragedy Into Triumph


by R. Scott Reedy - May 20, 2026

Playwright Luis Alfaro aimed high when he decided to bring Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” from 429 BC into the 21st century with “Oedipus El Rey,” his contemporary retelling of the Greek tragedy set in a Los Angeles barrio....

Review: JON BATISTE Brings His Musical Genius to BOSTON POPS at Symphony Hall


by R. Scott Reedy - May 17, 2026

What did our critic think of JON BATISTE BRINGS HIS MUSICAL GENIUS TO BOSTON POPS at Symphony Hall?...

Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN! is Anything But at Lyric Stage Boston


by R. Scott Reedy - May 14, 2026

When it comes to playwrights and poets, William Shakespeare towers above everyone else who has ever put pen to paper. After all, he is the greatest writer ever in the English language, and his 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and three long narrative poems have been translated into virtually every living lang...

Review: Music Carries the Day in The Umbrella Stage Company's HAIRSPRAY


by R. Scott Reedy - May 06, 2026

In most, if not all, other mountings of “Hairspray: The Broadway Musical,” Tracy Turnblad is tucked under her bedcovers when audiences first see the young heroine, ready to show off her high-teased bouffant and let loose with the first notes of the rousing opener, “Good Morning, Baltimore.”...

Review: August Wilson's GEM OF THE OCEAN at Actors' Shakespeare Project Has Glint of Greatness


by R. Scott Reedy - May 04, 2026

What did our critic think of GEM OF THE OCEAN at Actors' Shakespeare Project?...

Review: Dramatic Musical SWEPT AWAY Stays Afloat with Score by The Avett Brothers


by R. Scott Reedy - May 01, 2026

The musical “Swept Away” tells the story of four whalers shipwrecked off New Bedford in 1888, making it especially resonant for local audiences, who can experience the musical drama in a well crafted New England premiere at SpeakEasy Stage Company in the Virginia Wimberly Theatre at the Calderwo...

Past Shows

Close Encounters With Music Presents: Vivace Baroque Orchestra: The Four Seasons-Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla
Close Encounters With Music Presents: Vivace Baroque Orchestra: The Four Seasons-Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla
May 17

Spring doesn’t just arrive—it sings, storms, dances, and dazzles.The Vivace Baroque Orchestra returns with a program that pairs The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi with...

'On the Wings of Song'-Schumann's Dichterliebe and Mendelssohn Piano Trio
'On the Wings of Song'-Schumann's Dichterliebe and Mendelssohn Piano Trio
Apr 19

Close Encounters With Music presents On the Wings of Song, a program that brings together two distinct expressions of Romanticism in a single, compelling arc.Schumann’s...

Close Encounters With Music Presents: Mostly Amadeus-Meet the Mozarts!
Close Encounters With Music Presents: Mostly Amadeus-Meet the Mozarts!
Mar 15

Was Mozart truly a “quill in divine hands” — or a brilliant, complicated human being shaped by family, ambition, and legacy?Close Encounters With Music explores...

Close Encounters With Music Presents: Vivace Chamber Orchestra - Mozart, Mendelssohn, Britten, Bruch
Close Encounters With Music Presents: Vivace Chamber Orchestra - Mozart, Mendelssohn, Britten, Bruch
Dec 7

The Vivace Players return to the Berkshires for a stunning evening of chamber music that celebrates brilliance, emotion, and youthful joy. This dynamic ensemble of...

Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster
Aug 19

Sutton Foster is a Tony Award winning American actress, singer, and dancer who was most recently seen on the Broadway stage starring in an acclaimed...

MET OPERA LIVE IN HD: PUCCINI’S TURANDOT
MET OPERA LIVE IN HD: PUCCINI’S TURANDOT
May 7

Soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska is Puccinis icy princess. Tenor Yonghoon Lee is the bold prince determined to win Turandots love, alongside soprano Ermonela Jaho as the...

LONDON’S NATIONAL THEATRE IN HD: CYRANO DE BERGERAC
LONDON’S NATIONAL THEATRE IN HD: CYRANO DE BERGERAC
Nov 4 – Nov 11, 2020

Jamie Lloyds new production of Edmond Rostands classic play stars James McAvoy as a vigorous yet self-conscious man deeply in love....

Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots
Oct 14

Direct from the London stage, the freshest, most fabulous, feel-good musical of the decade (The Hollywood News) Kinky Boots, comes to U.S. cinema screens with...

Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots
Oct 7

Direct from the London stage, the freshest, most fabulous, feel-good musical of the decade (The Hollywood News) Kinky Boots, comes to U.S. cinema screens with...

John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey Radio Deluxe Live
John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey Radio Deluxe Live
Dec 22

Renowned jazz musicians John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey will record their syndicated American-songbook radio program, “Radio Deluxe,” live at the Mahaiwe. This popular show mixes...

Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant
Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant
Jul 15

Alan Cumming is many things to many people – renaissance man, style icon, social activist, bon viveur - but to himself he is a story-teller...

Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley: Broadway and Beyond
Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley: Broadway and Beyond
Jun 24

Marin and Jason “Broadway’s Golden Couple” (S.F. Chronicle) present songs from both the “Great White Way” and the “Great American Songbook”. Performing songs they introduced...

Tom Gold Dance
Tom Gold Dance
Jun 27 – May 27, 2015

Tom Gold Dance, a New York City-based classical dance company founded and led by former New York City Ballet soloist Tom Gold, makes its Berkshires...

Videos


The Hunchback of Notre Dame  in Boston The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Wheaton College - Watson Fine Arts (6/05-6/14) PHOTOS
Eureka Day in Boston Eureka Day
Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (6/04-6/20) PHOTOS
Come From Away in Boston Come From Away
North Shore Music Theatre (9/16-9/27) VIDEOS
The Who's Tommy in Boston The Who's Tommy
Emerson Colonial Theatre (5/04-5/16)
Chris Stapleton in Boston Chris Stapleton
Fenway Park (8/15-8/15)
Richard Skipper Celebrates! Life Lessons from Legends in Boston Richard Skipper Celebrates! Life Lessons from Legends
Josephine's at Club Cafe (7/18-7/18)
Robby Hoffman in Boston Robby Hoffman
Provincetown Town Hall (7/25-7/25)
Mrs. Doubtfire - Ages 6 and Over in Boston Mrs. Doubtfire - Ages 6 and Over
Hanover Theatre (6/26-6/26)
A Chorus Line: Teen Edition in Boston A Chorus Line: Teen Edition
The Company Theatre (7/09-7/11)
Wicked in Boston Wicked
Boston Opera House (9/23-11/15)