100 Years of Movies: The Big Lebowski (1998)
2025-09-11 19:00 (America/New_York) | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS$8
ConnectorCare/WIC/SUN Bucks/EBT Card to Culture*
Cult classic comedy The Big Lebowski is the story of two men with the same name from opposite ends of cultural and financial spectrums caught in the middle of a high stakes mystery. From filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, the movie stars a range of talent including Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Tara Reid, Sam Elliott, and more. (Rated R, 1h 57min.)
Following last year's success, the Mahaiwe will continue its "100 Years of Movies" series with film director and educator Deborah Reinisch. Reinisch will introduce each film with a brief lecture at the top of the screening.
Want to make sure these movies are appropriate for you or your family? Review the title on Common Sense Media.
*We accept ConnectorCare/WIC/SUN Bucks/EBT cards! Four free tickets to movies or HD broadcasts per individual. Thank you to the donors who make this possible.

London’s National Theatre in HD: Inter Alia
2025-09-26 19:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$17 / $10 ages 21 and under
ConnectorCare/WIC/EBT Card to Culture*
Warning: this film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.
Content warning: This production contains references to sensitive subject matter including sex, violence, rape and other criminal activity.
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie.
Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright?
Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity. (Rated R, 2hrs.)
*We accept ConnectorCare/WIC/EBT cards! Four free tickets to movies or HD broadcasts per individual. Thank you to the donors who make this possible.

Mahaiwe Rumba featuring Luana Dias David and DJ RVMBA
2025-09-27 18:00 - 21:00 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
RESERVA

GRATIS, Se requiere reserva
El Mahaiwe celebrará el Festival Latino con una clase de salsa con la profesora Luana Dias David a las 6 p. m., seguida de una fiesta de salsa con DJ RVMBA a las 7 p. m. Estos eventos tendrán lugar en la sala Indigo del Mahaiwe.
Luana Dias David, nacida en São Paulo (Brasil), es una artista multidisciplinar y coreógrafa con más de dos décadas de experiencia en el mundo del espectáculo a nivel internacional. Su dinámico trabajo combina a la perfección la danza, la tradición cultural y la narración de historias, llevando el vibrante espíritu de la cultura brasileña a todos los escenarios. El excepcional talento de Luana ha sido mostrado en plataformas televisivas internacionales como la italiana RAI Uno y la rusa Rossiya 1, y ha tenido la distinguida oportunidad de actuar para el presidente italiano Silvio Berlusconi en la Piazza Navona de Roma. Luana es la creadora de Quilombo Experience, un proyecto que celebra el poder de las conexiones multiculturales a lo largo de la historia brasileña.

Sonia Sandoval, una artista multimedia procedente de la vibrante cultura colombiana, aporta una mezcla dinámica de música y arte a cada escenario que pisa. Desde el corazón de Nueva York hasta Australia, pasando por la capital de Nueva York, el oeste de Massachusetts y Vermont, las actuaciones de Sonia son toda una experiencia, no solo un espectáculo. Nominada a tres premios Eddie consecutivos, Sonia es conocida por su versatilidad, ya que pasa con facilidad de animar discotecas a actuar en eventos de lujo a gran escala y en los festivales LGBTQ+ más famosos del mundo. Como DJ RVMBA, crea momentos inolvidables, mezclando sonidos globales y ritmos latinos para conectar todas las personas.
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FREE, Reservations required
The Mahaiwe will celebrate Festival Latino with a salsa class from instructor Luana Dias David at 6pm followed by a salsa party with DJ RVMBA at 7pm. These events will take place in the Mahaiwe’s Indigo Room.
A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Luana Dias David is a multidisciplinary artist and choreographer with over two decades of global performance experience. Her dynamic work seamlessly blends dance, cultural tradition, and storytelling, bringing the vibrant spirit of Brazilian culture to every stage. Luana’s exceptional talent has been showcased on national television platforms such as Italy’s RAI Uno and Russia’s Rossiya 1, and she has had the distinguished opportunity to perform for Italian President Silvio Berlusconi at Rome’s Piazza Navona.Luana is the visionary behind the Quilombo Experience, a project that celebrates the power of multicultural connections throughout Brazilian history.
Sonia Sandoval, a multimedia artist from the vibrant culture of Colombia, brings a dynamic blend of music and artistry to every stage she graces. From the heart of NYC to Australia, across the Capital Region of upstate New York, western Massachusetts, and Vermont, Sonia’s performances are an experience, not just a show. Nominated for three consecutive Eddie Awards, Sonia is known for her versatility — effortlessly transitioning from wild club sets to large-scale luxury events and the most famous pride celebrations in the world. As DJ RVMBA, she creates unforgettable moments, blending global sounds and Latin rhythms to connect people.

WIT Festival presents: David W. Blight and Deval Patrick in conversation with Imani Perry
2025-09-28 11:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$15 – $45
Mahaiwe Member Discount Event
Mahaiwe Member Sale:
Thursday, September 11 at noon
Public Sale:
Friday, September 12 at noon
My voice, my pen, my vote.
“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all of this?” This question, posed by W.E.B. Du Bois, arises with new urgency as executive orders and other government actions serve to undermine the practice of history in classrooms, on campus, and within institutions like the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and the National Parks.
How else to create a more just and compassionate future than by exploring, preserving, and sharing the full complexity of our collective past?
Join award-winning scholar David W. Blight (Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom) and former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick—two models of public service and public spirit—as they discuss how to foster historical understanding and civil discourse in a contentious political climate. The conversation is moderated by Harvard professor Imani Perry, whose new book is Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People.
“There’s more goodness in the hearts of people, more decency in the behavior and conscience of Americans, than is expressed in our federal government right now,” Governor Patrick said recently. “It’s a reminder of how important it is that we, all of us, not be bystanders, but get involved.”
How a country translates its past is often subject to political forces, but Blight sees the Trump Administration’s push for a singular patriotic education as both an assault on academic freedom and as endangering our democracy.
“A genuine democracy not only tolerates the reinterpretation of its past, but thrives upon it,” Blight has written. “We need history that can get us marching, but also render us awed by how much there is to learn.”
The conversation between David W. Blight and Deval Patrick is part of the 2025 WIT Literary Festival, an annual celebration of writers, their work, and the vital role they play in society presented by the Authors Guild Foundation. By bringing writers and readers together for a weekend of timely conversations, the WIT Literary Festival reflects the belief that a rich culture of free expression is essential to a thriving democracy. Join us from Sept 25-28 for conversations between M. Gessen and Michael S. Roth, Torrey Peters and Chase Strangio, Hanif Abdurraqib and Imani Perry, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Sanaz Toossi, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde and Marilynne Robinson, and more.
David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Yale and Slavery: A History (2024); Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018); American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (2013); A Slave No More: Two Post-Civil War Slave Narratives (2007); Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001; and annotated editions of Douglass’s first two autobiographies. He has worked on Douglass for much of his professional life, and has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among others. He writes frequently for the popular press, including The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times. he New York Times, and many other journals. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which honored him with the Gold Medal in History in 2020.
Deval Patrick, who served as the Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015, is a senior partner of The Vistria Group. He is also a professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School and was the co-director of its Center for Public Leadership from 2022 to 2024. He is the founder of Bain Capital Double Impact and was its managing partner from 2015 to 2019. Under his leadership as governor, Massachusetts ranked first in the nation in student achievement, energy efficiency, health-care coverage, veterans’ services, and entrepreneurship, and emerged from recession to achieve a 25-year high in employment. He has been a senior executive in two Fortune 50 companies, a partner in two Boston law firms, and the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the United States Justice Department. He is the founder and honorary chair of the Our Generation Speaks, founder and honorary chair of Project 351, and former co-chair of the Future of Tech Commission. He is a Rockefeller Fellow, a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and the author of two books: A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life (2011) and Faith in the Dream: A Call to the Nation to Reclaim American Values (2012). He and his family have called western Massachusetts their home for more than 25 years.
Imani Perry won the National Book Award in 2022 for South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. Her most recent book is Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People (2025). She is also the author of Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (2019); Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (2018), for which she received the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, The Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, the Lambda Literary Award and the Shilts-Grahn Award; and May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (2018), which won the 2019 John Hope Franklin Book Award. She is a professor in African American Studies and in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.
Learn more about the WIT Festival and see the full line-up at authorsguild.org

WIT Festival presents: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde & Marilynne Robinson (in conversation with Paul Elie)
2025-09-28 15:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

Mahaiwe Member Sale:
Wednesday, July 30 at noon
Public Sale:
Thursday, July 31 at noon
$15 – $45
Mahaiwe Member Discount Event
To make inroads on the vast terrain of what cannot be said.
On January 21, 2025, the day after the Inauguration, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde rose to the pulpit of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and asked the President to “have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families who fear for their lives. Have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. Help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were once strangers in this land.”
What is courage? In How We Learn to Be Brave, Bishop Budde quotes the poet David Whyte, writing “courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community.”
And what is community? Marilynne Robinson, perhaps America’s greatest living novelist, has written that it “consists very largely of imaginative love for people we do not know, or whom we know very slightly.” In another context, she has defined democracy in the same way.
How do we tend to the human spirit in a time of fear and harm? Join Bishop Budde and Marilynne Robinson, two luminaries cherished for their wisdom and imagination, for a conversation that promises to be gracious, grave, radiant, and revelatory.
The conversation between Bishop Budde and Marilynne Robinson is the closing event of the 2025 WIT Literary Festival, an annual celebration of writers, their work, and the vital role they play in society presented by the Authors Guild Foundation. By bringing writers and readers together for an unforgettable weekend of timely conversations, the WIT Literary Festival reflects the belief that a rich culture of free expression is essential to a thriving democracy. Join us on the long weekend of Sept 25-28 for timely conversations between M. Gessen and Michael S. Roth, Torrey Peters and Chase Strangio, Hanif Abdurraqib and Imani Perry, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Sanaz Toossi, and more.
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde serves as spiritual leader for the Episcopal congregations and schools in the District of Columbia and four Maryland counties that comprise the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. The first woman elected to this position, she also serves as the chair of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, which oversees the ministries of the Washington National Cathedral and Cathedral schools. She is an advocate and organizer in support of justice in all its forms, including racial equity, gun-violence prevention, immigration reform, the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons, and the care of creation. She was consecrated as the ninth bishop of Washington in November 2011. Prior to her election, she served for 18 years as rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. She is the author of three books, most recently How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith (2023).
Marilynne Robinson was the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for “her grace and intelligence in writing.” The four novels of her acclaimed Gilead series, each of which were selected for Oprah’s Book Club in 2021, are Gilead (2004), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home (2008), for which she won the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila (2014), for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack (2020). Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Her works of nonfiction include Reading Genesis (2024); What Are We Doing Here? (2018); The Givenness of Things (2015); When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012); Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (2010); The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998); and Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989). She taught for many years at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Paul Elie is a senior fellow in Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. His third book, The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s, was published in May. He is also the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage (2003) and Reinventing Bach: The Search for Transcendence in Sound (2012), both of which were National Book Critics Circle Award finalists. He lives in Brooklyn.
Learn more about the WIT Festival and see the full line-up at authorsguild.org.

Josh Blue: Berserker Tour
2025-10-03 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$29 – $45
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$29 Reserved
$39 Preferred
$45 Premium
Members receive $5 off each ticket
$15 ages 30 and under (visit the Box Office or call 413-528-0100, Wed – Sat, 12-4pm)
After his groundbreaking win on Last Comic Standing in 2006, Josh Blue has risen through the ranks to become a well-established headliner at venues throughout the world. In 2018, Josh crushed his set on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In the same year, he was honored with a performance at the William H. Macy Gala at the prestigious Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Canada. He wrapped up 2018 by recording his fifth hour special, Broccoli, at his home club, Comedy Works in Denver, CO. In 2021, following his 3rd place finish on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Josh Blue hit the road with his As NOT Seen on TV Tour. Josh does over 200 shows a year, continuing to spread laughter and break down stereotypes of people with disabilities. His stand-up routine is in a constant state of evolution and his off-the-cuff improvisational skills guarantee that no two shows are alike.
Josh represented the United States in eight countries as a member of the US Paralympic Soccer Team. Josh and his team were thoroughly disgraced in the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece by not scoring a single goal. He is a single father living in Denver, CO with his son and daughter.
Opening Act: Nick Giasullo

Pat Metheny
2025-10-04 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$44 – $89
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$44 Limited Upper Balcony
$59 Reserved
$79 Preferred
$89 Premium
Members receive $5 off each ticket
$15 ages 30 and under (visit the Box Office or call 413-528-0100, Wed – Sat, 12-4pm)

Guitarist and Composer Pat Metheny, winner of 20 Grammy Awards in 10 different categories, gives an intimate concert like no other Metheny performance before. Playing over a dozen guitars, Metheny offers songs from his past and recent recordings, Dream Box and MoonDial, all given further dimension by the rare storytelling Pat shares with the audience.
Solo performance.

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David Sedaris
2025-10-05 16:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

SOLD OUT
To join the waitlist call or visit the Box Office, 413-528-0100, open Wednesday through Saturday, from noon to 4pm.
$26 – $73
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$26 Reserved
$58 Preferred
$73 Premium
Members receive $5 off Reserved level tickets
$15 ages 30 and under (visit the Box Office or call 413-528-0100, Wed – Sat, 12-4pm)
David Sedaris is one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is a master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers. Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, and Calypso.
There are over 16 million copies of his books in print, and they have been translated into 32 languages. He has been awarded the Terry Southern Prize for Humor, Thurber Prize for American Humor, Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, Time 2001 Humorist of the Year Award, as well as the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2019 he was elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2020 the New York Public Library voted Me Talk Pretty One Day one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years.
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Doktor Kaboom: Under Pressure!
2025-10-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
Suggested for Grades 3 – 7 / ages 8 to 13
Be amazed by the power of pressure – and what it can teach us.
Equal parts interactive science, comedy, and personal empowerment messages, Doktor Kaboom returns with a new show. Doktor Kaboom: Under Pressure! illustrates physical science concepts, which are also metaphors for real-life mental and emotional pressures.
Praised for keeping crowds riveted with interest and rolling with laughter, Doktor Kaboom is also known for empowering volunteers from the audience to be the heroes of the moment. In Under Pressure!, Kaboom validates the pressures some students may feel, and shares tools and life lessons as resources for dealing with the difficulties that face us all.
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Indigo Comedy Night featuring Kevin McCaffrey
2025-10-10 19:00 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
Indigo Room Grand Opening Weekend
With host Thomas Attila Lewis and supporting comedians
TICKETS

$25 General Admission
Café table seating, first-come, first-served
18+
Kevin McCaffrey is a comedian who made his network debut on The Late Show with David Letterman, and whose two albums – Nice & Drunk and Not Helping – have both debuted at #1 on the iTunes/Amazon charts, and have over 2 million streams on SiriusXM and Spotify. He was a regular for 7 years on truTV Presents: World’s Dumbest, doing 200 episodes that will rerun until the end of time. Online, Kevin has a social media following of over 250,000 and his videos have over 50 million views.
He won seasons 2 & 3 on truTV’s Comedy Knockout, was a featured cast member on VH1’s I Love the 2000s, truTV’s Greatest Ever, and a series of shows on the WWE Network. He also hosted IFC’s Comedy Drop.
Kevin also hosted Celebrate! a weekly interview show on Sirius XM channel 99, and currently hosts the Sex and the Cidiots & The Bridgerton Bros podcasts.
Elizabeth Becz is a Brooklyn based comedian with a real knack for picking things apart. Great on stage, terrible at parties. She has featured at clubs across Upstate New York, Manhattan, Maine, and Massachusetts for names like Rich Vos, Jaye McBride and others. She really enjoys a good deli sandwich.

Drag Bingo with Miranda Moirai
2025-10-10 21:30 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
Indigo Room Grand Opening Weekend
TICKETS

SOLD OUT
To join the waitlist call or visit the Box Office, 413-528-0100, open Wednesday through Saturday, from noon to 4pm.
$20 General Admission
Café table seating, first-come, first-served
18+
Drag Bingo is an exciting and entertaining event that combines the traditional game of bingo with the fabulousness of drag performers. Expect a lively atmosphere with our Drag Queen host (Miranda Moirai) calling out numbers, performing, and engaging with the audience. Fun prizes will be awarded to game winners!
Miranda Moirai has been performing in drag since 2008, bringing a blend of heart, artistry, and precision to stages across the tri-state area. Originally from Delhi, NY, she is a classically trained dancer and vocalist whose background deeply informs her performance style — blending technique with emotion in every number. Miranda also designs and constructs all of her own costumes and accessories, with her custom pieces worn by fellow drag artists, burlesque performers, and theater companies alike.
A recognized name in the pageant scene, Miranda holds several titles including Best Entertainer 2010, Miss Gay Chemung County 2010, Miss Trexx 2013, Miss Berkshire 2019, Miss Gay Pride Syracuse 2019, and most recently, First Alternate to Miss Gay Albany 2024.

Ann Hampton Callaway
2025-10-11 20:00 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
Indigo Room Grand Opening Weekend
TICKETS

SOLD OUT
To join the waitlist call or visit the Box Office, 413-528-0100, open Wednesday through Saturday, from noon to 4pm.
$102 General Admission
Café table seating, first-come, first-served
On sale Wednesday, August 20 at noon
“For sheer vocal beauty, no contemporary singer matches Ms. Callaway.” – Stephen Holden, New York Times
“Just as Ella Fitzgerald was the greatest jazz singer of her era, so too is the magnificent Ann Hampton Callaway of hers.” – Musical Theatre Review
The Best of Ann Hampton Callaway
Don’t miss The Best of Ann Hampton Callaway, the new show by the Tony-nominated singer-songwriter. Callaway dazzles us with highlights from her hit shows The Streisand Songbook, Ann Hampton Callaway Sings the ‘70s, The Linda Ronstadt Songbook, To Ella with Love, From Sassy to Divine: The Sarah Vaughan Project and Finding Beauty: Inspired Classics and Originals. Come see why Christopher Loudon of Jazz Times calls her the “…superbly intelligent, singularly creative pop-jazz stylist who can stand shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Streisand, Ronstadt, Shirley Horn, and Dianne Reeves…”
About Ann Hampton Callaway
Ann Hampton Callaway is one of America’s most gifted artists in pop and jazz. A leading champion of the great American Songbook, she’s made her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer. Voted by Broadwayworld.com as “Celebrity of the Year” and two years in a row as “Best Jazz Vocalist,” Ann is a born entertainer. She is best known for Tony-nominated performance in the hit Broadway musical Swing! and for writing and singing the theme song to the hit TV series The Nanny. She made her feature film debut opposite Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon in the Robert De Niro film The Good Shepherd. Callaway is a Platinum Award selling writer whose songs are featured on seven of Barbra Streisand’s recent albums. She’s recorded over 50 albums as a soloist and guest and her latest critically acclaimed album Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration! has been in high rotation on Siriusly Sinatra. Ann’s honors include The Theater World Award, 17 MAC Awards, several Bistro Awards, The Mabel Mercer Award, The Johnny Mercer Award for Songwriting, The Blanton Peale Award for Positive Thinking and her induction into The Women Songwriters Hall of Fame. Her new record Finding Beauty, Originals Volume 1, was recently released via Shanachie Entertainment and debuted at #1 on the iTunes Jazz Chart.

Terry A La Berry
2025-10-12 11:00 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
Indigo Room Grand Opening Weekend
RESERVE

FREE, Reservations required
Reservations open Friday, August 15 at noon
Arlo Guthrie’s longtime drummer turned family-friendly musician Terry A La Berry entertains audiences large and small with original songs and highly interactive material. He has appeared in several award-winning PBS specials for children and has produced seven albums of his original songs that have been recognized by Parents Choice Awards. He performed at the White House three times for the Easter Egg Roll and at thousands of schools, museums, theaters, camps, and libraries, all over the country.

Indigo Room Ribbon Cutting
2025-10-12 13:00 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center welcomes the public to a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new performance venue, the Indigo Room, next door to the historic theater on Sunday, October 12 at 1pm. The ceremony is part of a weekend-long grand opening comprised of performances and other events.
Community members are invited to join local officials and special guests as Mahaiwe Board members and staff mark the official opening of the Indigo Room with this symbolic proceeding.
The ceremony will be highlighted by a traditional Chinese lion dance performed by Guanglei Hui and Bin Zhai to bring good luck to the building and all who use it. Red envelopes will be available for attendees to present their good wishes, and an apple cider toast will be raised in celebration. Guests will be given a commemorative souvenir.

Guy Davis
2025-10-12 20:00 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
Indigo Room Grand Opening Weekend
TICKETS

SOLD OUT
To join the waitlist call or visit the Box Office, 413-528-0100, open Wednesday through Saturday, from noon to 4pm.
$40 General Admission
Café table seating, first-come, first-served
On sale Friday, August 15 at noon
Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues, a musician, actor, author, and songwriter. Guy uses a blend of roots, blues, folk, rock, rap, spoken word, and world music to comment on, and address, the frustrations of social injustice, touching on historical events, and common life struggles.

Scott Eyerly's Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Bellini's La Sonnambula
2025-10-16 17:30 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
JOIN

FREE
Scott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
Use the following link at the date and time of the lecture to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88641101777
Composer and librettist Scott Eyerly brings a fresh approach to the Mahaiwe’s Met lectures. He combines his experience as a teacher at The Juilliard School with a wide range of creative accomplishments – from his comic opera My Life Online, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe, to his musical comedy Pooch, produced in workshop at Seagle Music Festival. Eyerly’s lively talks are drawing novices and cognoscenti alike.

Rennie Harris Puremovement: History of Hip Hop
2025-10-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
Suggested for ages 8 to 19
Titled The History of Hip Hop, this lecture demonstration is a 45-60 minute interactive presentation of various Street dance styles, including Campbell locking, Popping, Breaking, Hip Hop Proper, and House, and their associated sociopolitical and cultural histories. In addition to lecture, the dancers from Rennie Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater will physically demonstrate each style, complete with interactive elements with the audience!
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Rennie Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater – Nuttin' but a Word
2025-10-18 13:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$25 – $59
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$25 Reserved
$39 Preferred
$59 Premium
Members receive $5 off Preferred and Premium level tickets
$15 ages 30 and under (visit the Box Office or call 413-528-0100, Wed – Sat, 12-4pm)
Celebrated choreographer Rennie Harris returns to Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center to lay down his three laws of hip-hop—individuality, creativity, innovation. Here to expose the essence of their art form with unmatched subtlety and surprise, the indefatigably disciplined dancers of Rennie Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater command the stage with a mixtape of moves from b-boying to Campbell locking to house. Every step tells a story in sync with the rhythm, honoring hip-hop’s roots while raising the bar to new heights. You can try to shout ’em down, but you ain’t said Nuttin’ but a Word.
“This suite of works challenges the structural integrity of Campbell locking, house, hip-hop, and B-boying. Now that we are a global hip-hop nation, we seem to have become hip-hop/street dance zealots. This purist attitude has stagnated the natural progression of street dance. Simply put, we have become elitist about Hip-hop culture. This elitism is due to this generation’s obsession with ‘keeping it real.’ The truth of the matter is this generation will never relive my generation’s era of original dance. My generation defined the three laws of Hip-hop culture: innovation, individuality, and creativity. At best, they can appreciate it, pay homage to it, and acknowledge it as the foundational era of hip-hop/street dance it was; in doing that, they will tap into their individuality, creativity, and innovation, which in turn ensures progress. The work’s title, Nuttin’ But A Word, was taken from a cultural phrase used amongst Blacks in the United States. The complete phrase is, ‘You ain’t said nothing but a word’; loosely translated, it means, ‘Your words mean nothing — pay close attention because what I do next will trump anything you have to say.’ Hip-hop/street dance is progressive by design. There is nothing about the three Laws of Hip-Hop that suggests stagnation. Nothing about these laws indicates that we as practitioners of Hip-hop should only adhere to its foundation; it is quite the opposite. Nuttin’ But A Word challenges the Hip-hop puritans at every turn and reminds us that we will not evolve as a form without individuality, creativity, and innovation.” – Rennie Harris
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Met Opera Live in HD: Bellini's La Sonnambula
2025-10-19 13:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS$25 / $10 ages 21 and under.
ConnectorCare/WIC/EBT Card to Culture*
Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Verdi's La Traviata, and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences' hearts in Bellini's poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera's original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina's fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera's most ravishing works. This operatic gem from one of the great masters of melody is a benchmark of extraordinary vocalism. The title role of the sleepwalking girl was composed for the greatest diva of the day, Giuditta Pasta (for whom Bellini also wrote the tragic role of Norma). The part requires a rare combination of innocence, charm, and breathtaking vocal virtuosity. Deeper than a comedy, but in no way a tragedy, La Sonnambula reaches its conclusion through genuine, poignant character development, rather than by intrigue or farce.
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Matt Cusson
2025-10-24 20:00 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
TICKETS

$40 General Admission
Café table seating, first-come, first-served
On sale Friday, August 15 at noon
Matt Cusson is a Grammy-nominated, multiple award-winning singer, pianist, songwriter, producer, and arranger. In addition to recent tours with Christina Aguilera, Megan Hilty, Dave Koz, and India.Arie with Javier Colon, Matt has worked with many of the world’s biggest artists, including Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Megan Hilty, Anderson .Paak, Dua Lipa, CeeLo Green, Leslie Odom Jr., Billy Porter, Dave Koz, Javier Colon, Meshell Ndegeocello, mentors Brian McKnight and Livingston Taylor, and many, many more. You can hear Matt’s music on an array of albums from artists of different genres, multiple movies and TV shows, and massive collaborations with NASA and LifeTime, and The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting, among others. Recently, Matt arranged Irving Berlin’s “Count Your Blessings” for the New York Pops with conductor Steven Reineke, played at Carnegie Hall. And with the many arrangements you can hear of Matt’s all over the world, his version of “How Deep Is Your Love,” arranged for King’s Return, was nominated for a 2023 Grammy for Best Arrangement. And songs “Leaving L.A.” and “One of Those Nights” have both been awarded the John Lennon Songwriting Award. Be sure to check out Matt’s latest singles “First Me,” “Why Don’t We Go”, and “She Don’t Mind” available everywhere, and be sure to look for Matt’s much-anticipated third album coming soon!

London’s National Theatre in HD: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
2025-10-25 19:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$17 / $10 ages 21 and under
Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic.
Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune – but at what cost?
Filmed live from the West End, this new production reunites Staunton with director Dominic Cooke (Follies, Good), exploring the clash between morality and independence, traditions and progress.
Rated PG-13

Silkroad: Behind the Music (Virtual Artist Talk)
2025-10-30 17:00 - 17:40 | https://mahaiwe.org/event/silkroad-behind-the-music-virtual-artist-talk/
REGISTER

FREE with registration
Registration confirmation will be emailed by Fairfield University. A streaming link will be emailed 24 hours prior to the event. If you register within 24 hours of the event, the streaming link will be sent as soon as possible. Contact 203-254-4010 or quickboxoffice@fairfield.edu for assistance.
40-minute streaming talk and Q&A
Join Silkroad artists Wu Man and Sandeep Das—virtuosic performers and composers for “American Railroad”—for a glimpse into the creative process behind this groundbreaking project. “American Railroad” presents a sonic tapestry of the past, evoking the often-overlooked contributions of Indigenous and African Americans, as well as Chinese, Irish, Japanese, and other immigrant communities who laid the tracks that transformed a nation. This creative conversation will be moderated by composer and scholar, Anthony Cheung.
Wu Man and Sandeep Das will perform as part of Silkroad Ensemble’s “American Railroad” at the Mahaiwe on November 8 (tickets available).
Presented in partnership with Colonial Performing Arts Center, Fairfield University Quick Center for the Arts, and First Works, through the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).
About Silkroad: A Grammy Award-winning musical ensemble, Silkroad is a collective of artists representing dozens of nationalities, traditions and ideas, who use music and art to demonstrate how great beauty can emerge from great difference. The Ensemble strives to engage difference, sparking radical collaboration and music with a purpose, for a more hopeful and inclusive world.
About Wu Man: Wu Man belongs to a rare group of musicians who have redefined the role of their instruments, in her case, the pipa, a pear-shaped, four-stringed Chinese lute with a rich history spanning centuries. Not only is she recognized as the foremost pipa player in the United States, but she is also celebrated as an accomplished composer, educator, and one of the most prominent instrumentalists of traditional Chinese music. She has premiered hundreds of new works for the pipa, while spearheading multimedia projects to both preserve and create awareness of China’s ancient musical traditions. Her adventurous spirit and virtuosity have led to collaborations across artistic disciplines, allowing her to reach wider audiences as she works to cross cultural and musical borders.
About Sandeep Das: A Guggenheim Fellow, Sandeep Das is one of the leading Tabla virtuosos in the world today. Since his debut concert at the age of 17 with legendary Sitar player Ravi Shankar, Das has built a prolific international reputation spanning over three decades. He has collaborated with top musicians, ensembles, and orchestras from all over the world, and his original compositions have been performed in 50+ countries. Das is the founder of Harmony and Universality through Music (HUM), a nonprofit organization in India that has promoted global understanding through music performance and provided learning opportunities and scholarships for visually-impaired children with artistic potential since 2009. His most recent project, Transcending Borders One Note at a Time, launched in 2020 to widespread international acclaim, and seeks to harness the power of music to create positive social change.
About Anthony Cheung: (Associate Professor of Music, Brown University): Composer and pianist Anthony Cheung writes music that explores the senses, a wide palette of instrumental play and affect, improvisational traditions, reimagined musical artifacts, and multiple layers of textual meaning. Described as “gritty, inventive and wonderfully assured” (San Francisco Chronicle) and praised for its “instrumental sensuality” (Chicago Tribune), his music reveals an interest in the ambiguity of sound sources and constantly shifting transformations of tuning and timbre. His music and commissions have been performed at festivals around the world. He was a co-founder of the Talea Ensemble, performing as a pianist and serving as artistic director. The recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, he has also received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Charles Ives Fellowship and Scholarship) and ASCAP, and first prize in the Sixth International Dutilleux Competition (2008), as well as a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (2012).
Funded in part by

Natalie Merchant with Erik Della Penna: Autumn Acoustic Tour
2025-10-31 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

SOLD OUT
To join the waitlist call or visit the Box Office, 413-528-0100, open Wednesday through Saturday, from noon to 4pm.
$71 – $81
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
Public Sale:
Thursday, June 26 at 10am online / noon through the Box Office
$71 Reserved
$81 Premium
Members receive $5 off each ticket
$15 ages 30 and under (visit the Box Office or call 413-528-0100, Wed – Sat, 12-4pm)
Over her 40-year career Natalie Merchant has earned a reputation for being a songwriter and recording artist of rare quality, a captivating stage performer, and a skilled producer. She has also distinguished herself as a social justice and environmental activist through her work with a wide-variety of non-profit organizations, and by creating documentary films and large-scale community arts projects.
Natalie began her musical career as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the pop music band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and released two platinum and four gold records with the group. She left the band in 1993 and has subsequently released nine albums as a solo artist with combined sales of seven million copies.
In 2007, Merchant was appointed by Governor Elliot Spitzer to serve on the New York State Council on the Arts, and in 2022 Senator Chuck Schumer appointed her to the board of trustees of The American Folklife Center at The Library of Congress. Merchant’s awards for artistic excellence and philanthropic work include: the ASCAP Champion Award, The Library Lion Award from the New York Public Library, and The John Lennon Real Love Award. In 2025 the National Head Start Association made Natalie their national artist-in-residence.

Natalie Merchant with Erik Della Penna: Autumn Acoustic Tour
2025-11-01 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
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SOLD OUT
To join the waitlist call or visit the Box Office, 413-528-0100, open Wednesday through Saturday, from noon to 4pm.
$71 – $81
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$71 Reserved
$81 Premium
Members receive $5 off each ticket
$15 ages 30 and under (visit the Box Office or call 413-528-0100, Wed – Sat, 12-4pm)
Over her 40-year career Natalie Merchant has earned a reputation for being a songwriter and recording artist of rare quality, a captivating stage performer, and a skilled producer. She has also distinguished herself as a social justice and environmental activist through her work with a wide-variety of non-profit organizations, and by creating documentary films and large-scale community arts projects.
Natalie began her musical career as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the pop music band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and released two platinum and four gold records with the group. She left the band in 1993 and has subsequently released nine albums as a solo artist with combined sales of seven million copies.
In 2007, Merchant was appointed by Governor Elliot Spitzer to serve on the New York State Council on the Arts, and in 2022 Senator Chuck Schumer appointed her to the board of trustees of The American Folklife Center at The Library of Congress. Merchant's awards for artistic excellence and philanthropic work include: the ASCAP Champion Award, The Library Lion Award from the New York Public Library, and The John Lennon Real Love Award. In 2025 the National Head Start Association made Natalie their national artist-in-residence.

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Close Encounters With Music: “The Golem” - A Vision in Sound and Cinema with the Avalon String Quartet
2025-11-02 16:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$35 Balcony / $60 Orchestra
Mahaiwe Member Discount Event

Mahaiwe Member Sale:
Friday, September 5 at noon
Public Sale:
Wednesday, September 10 at noon
Mahaiwe Members receive $5 off each ticket
Monsters and magic spells! A masterwork of German expressionist cinema meets a live, klezmer-infused score in a vibrant feast for the eyes and ears. Paul Wegener’s pioneering 1920 silent horror film Der Golem was so popular on release that it sold out movie houses in both Germany and America for months, inspired Golem-themed operettas, and became a critical influence on the 1931 film Frankenstein. Drawn from a medieval Jewish legend, Der Golem tells the tale of the Jews of 16th-century Prague, who create a giant figure out of clay to protect themselves—only to see it turn on them with violence. To heighten the atmosphere, Israeli-born composer Betty Olivero weaves together traditional Yiddish folk tunes and Jewish liturgical music into a haunting score for clarinet and strings. Colorful, ominous, and electrifying, the experience of hearing live musicians accompany the action on the big screen promises to be unforgettable.
The Avalon String Quartet: Blaise Magnière, violin; Marie Wang, violin; Anthony Devroye, viola; Cheng-Hou Lee, cello
Saerom Kim, clarinet; Jonathan Yates, conductor
The Avalon String Quartet “—an ensemble that invites you—ears, mind, and spirit—into its music.” — Chicago Tribune

Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Puccini's La Bohème
2025-11-06 17:30 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230

On the Rails: African American Experiences in Railroad History
2025-11-08 18:00 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
FREE, No reservations required
Row seating, first-come, first-served
Co-presented with OLLI at Berkshire Community College and DuBois Freedom Center
Join this pre-show talk and Q&A before Silkroad Ensemble’s American Railroad concert in the historic theater. Amplifying the performance’s themes of workers’ contributions to the transcontinental railroad’s construction and the railroad as a conveyance and co-mingling of their cultures, Dr. Camesha Scruggs will speak on the experiences of African American railroad workers. From railroad construction through employment as porters, the railroad offered a door towards upward mobility and a path of migration of the Black community but did not come without human costs.
Dr. Camesha Scruggs is an Assistant Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. Her research fields include US and African American History. As a trained public historian, she endeavors to protect and preserve history while making it palatable for various audiences.

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Silkroad Ensemble’s performance of American Railroad at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is made possible through a grant from NEFA.

Silkroad Ensemble featuring Wu Man: American Railroad
2025-11-08 19:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$45 – $95
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$45 Upper Balcony (Limited)
$59 Reserved
$75 Preferred
$95 Premium
Members receive $5 off each ticket
$15 ages 30 and under (visit the Box Office or call 413-528-0100, Wed – Sat, 12-4pm)
A Grammy Award-winning musical ensemble, Silkroad is a collective of artists representing dozens of nationalities, traditions and ideas, who use music and art to demonstrate how great beauty can emerge from great difference. The Ensemble strives to engage difference, sparking radical collaboration and music with a purpose, for a more hopeful and inclusive world.
About American Railroad: Experience a compelling reimagining of Silkroad’s acclaimed American Railroad program—now with an intimate, powerhouse ensemble of eight world-class musicians led by the internationally acclaimed pipa master, Wu Man. This program presents a sonic tapestry of the past, evoking the powerful and often-overlooked contributions of Indigenous and African Americans, as well as Chinese, Irish, Japanese, and other immigrant communities who laid the tracks that transformed a nation.
The program highlights thrilling collaborations of traditional percussion instruments from India, Japan, and Italy, alongside the exquisite tonal interplay of Chinese pipa, guitar, string instruments, and of course the unforgettable wild Chinese wind instrument suona and European accordion. With breathtaking musicianship and evocative melodies, this Grammy Award-winning group challenges conventional narratives, unveiling a deeply human perspective that redefines the American experience and transports audiences through a cultural and historical odyssey.
Wu Man, pipa
Niwel Tsumbu, guitar
Shawn Conley, Bass
Sandeep Das, Tabla
Kaoru Watanabe, Japanese flutes and percussion
Michi Wiancko, violin
Guo Yazhi, Chinese Winds, Chinese percussion
Francesco Turrisi, accordion, frame drums
Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini's La Bohème
2025-11-09 13:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$25 / $10 ages 21 and under.
ConnectorCare/WIC/EBT Card to Culture*
With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the performance..
*We accept ConnectorCare/WIC/EBT cards! Four free tickets to movies or HD broadcasts per individual. Thank you to the donors who make this possible.

London’s National Theatre in HD: Life of Pi
2025-11-14 19:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$17 / $10 ages 21 and under
ConnectorCare/WIC/EBT Card to Culture*
Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel.
After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?
Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is brought to life in a breath-taking new way. Rated PG-13.
*We accept ConnectorCare/WIC/EBT cards! Four free tickets to movies or HD broadcasts per individual. Thank you to the donors who make this possible.
