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BIFF presents: For the Living
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAWhen 250 cyclists embark on a profound journey, retracing the liberation path of a 10-year-old Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Krakow, Poland, their odyssey provides a stunning parallel for Humankind’s equally perilous journey from dehumanization to empathy – just as our species is now traveling down the most dangerous stretch of all.
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BIFF presents: Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MABob Mackie: Naked Illusion traces the life of the fashion icon on screen and off, highlighting Mackie’s global impact on TV, film, Broadway and concert stages and within fashion and popular culture.
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BIFF presents: The Makings of Curtis Mayfield
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAThe Makings of Curtis Mayfield, directed by and featuring Grammy Award winning musical artist and actor, H.E.R., explores the legacy and deep musical and cultural influence of singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and entrepreneur Curtis Mayfield.
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BIFF presents: A Beautiful Imperfection
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAA Beautiful Imperfection tells the empowering story of Lucia, Giacomo Casanova’s only great love, who leaves Italy for Amsterdam after her face has been disfigured by smallpox.
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BIFF presents: Park Avenue
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAParalyzed by her life wrangling cattle in Alberta, Canada, Charlotte jumps into her Ford Bronco, flees her over-controlling husband, and lands back in her childhood Park Avenue apartment where she takes refuge with her mother Kit.
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BIFF presents: Four Mothers
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAEdward, a novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brink of literary success.
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BIFF presents: Brian Cox Tribute & The Escapist
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MASpecial Tribute Event featuring an intimate conversation between multi-award-winning actor Brian Cox (Succession, The Escapist, L.I.E., the Bourne trilogies, E Truscan Smile) and his wife, actress, director, and producer Nicole Ansari-Cox.
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BIFF presents: Kids Flix
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BIFF presents: Rioja, Land of the Thousand Wines
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MABy telling the human stories behind the entire value chain that gives life to the Spanish wine with the greatest international projection, Rioja, Land of the Thousand Wines portrays a currently blooming wine region underpinned by the talent and the work of the new generations of winemakers that operate side by side with the region’s historic wineries.
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BIFF presents: Tokito – The 540-Day Journey of a Culinary Maverick
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MATokito chronicles the 540-day journey of maverick Michelin-starred Chef Yoshinori Ishii as his team transforms a historic Japanese restaurant into an innovative auberge dining experience in Tokyo.
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BIFF presents: The Trouble with Mr. Doodle
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAThis is the story of an extraordinary boy born into an ordinary family in an unremarkable English town and how a childhood passion threatened to take over his life, his home, and his mind.
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BIFF presents: Marlee Matlin – Not Alone Anymore
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAIn 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old.
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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Rossini’s il Barbiere di Siviglia
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAScott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
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100 Years of Movies: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAGeorge Cukor’s classic comedy The Philadelphia Story stars Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart in a romantic romp about marriage and high society.
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Met Opera Live in HD: Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MARussian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva.
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Close Encounters With Music: L’Amour Toujours – CEWM Commissioning Program World Premiere
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAIt’s all about love: A new work for clarinet trio by composer Seth Grosshandler that celebrates young love, courtship and the serendipity of meeting one’s intended receives its inaugural performance.
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London’s National Theatre in HD: A Streetcar Named Desire
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAAs Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
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Steve Earle: Solo & Acoustic
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100 Years of Movies: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAThe Maltese Falcon stars Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in a detective drama centered around a mysterious prized falcon statuette.
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Shawn Colvin and Rodney Crowell: Together on Stage
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New York Theatre Workshop’s Mind the Gap, Intergenerational Performance Program
Indigo Room 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesMind the Gap is a free intergenerational theatre program in which youth and elders interview each other and collectively create a performance piece inspired by each other’s life stories. The workshop will culminate with a public presentation, Friday, June 27 at 7pm, in which the collaborative work is performed by the participants.
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Boston Early Music Festival presents: Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAExplore the depth of Telemann’s genius with a fascinating pairing of stylish slapstick and scintillating drama for an evening of show-stopping virtuosity from the Grammy-winning Boston Early Music Festival!
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Boston Early Music Festival presents: Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAExplore the depth of Telemann’s genius with a fascinating pairing of stylish slapstick and scintillating drama for an evening of show-stopping virtuosity from the Grammy-winning Boston Early Music Festival!
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Pure Prairie League
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAPure Prairie League continues to embellish the rich 50-plus year history of one of Country-Rock’s pioneering forces.
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100 Years of Movies: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAGene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s Singin’ in the Rain is a timeless musical about Hollywood’s transition from silent films to talkies.
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Marc Broussard
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAAcclaimed singer, songwriter, and musician Marc Broussard is an artist with a unique gift of channeling the spirits of classic R&B, rock, and soul into contemporary terms.
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2025 Gala: Aaron Tveit
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAPlease note, Aaron Tveit replaces Andrew Rannells as the Mahaiwe's 2025 Gala performer, due to an unavoidable scheduling conflict.
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100 Years of Movies: Vertigo (1958)
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAAlfred Hitchock’s magnum opus stars James Stewart as a retired detective with an aversion to heights and Kim Novak in a multi-faceted, mystery-driven performance. All is not what it might seem in this thriller often considered one of the greatest films of all time.
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Tanglewood and Mahaiwe present: Rhythm and Revelry – An Afternoon with Tambuco and the Tanglewood Music Center
Indigo Room 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesThe Tanglewood Music Center is excited to collaborate with the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center to present the acclaimed Mexican percussion ensemble Tambuco, a four-time Grammy nominee.
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Rosanne Cash
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with John LeventhalRosanne Cash is a composer and singer-songwriter who has earned 4 Grammy Awards and 14 Grammy nominations, among numerous other accolades for songwriting and sound recordings.
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Berkshire Opera Festival: Behind the Curtain – A Presentation Exploring BOF’s 10th Anniversary Season
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAPlease join Berkshire Opera Festival for a presentation and discussion of BOF's upcoming mainstage production of Verdi's La Traviata.
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Paul Reiser
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAComedian, actor, television writer, author and musician Paul Reiser is one of Hollywood’s most prolific creatives.
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100 Years of Movies: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAFaye Dunaway and Warren Beatty play the iconic, titular duo in the ubiquitous Bonnie and Clyde. Renegades on the lam, Bonnie and Clyde ransack through the south in the Great Depression.