Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

BIFF presents: Four Mothers
2025-05-31 15:00 (America/New_York) | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$15
Edward, a novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brink of literary success. With pressure to go on a US book tour mounting, the last thing Edward needs is his friends jetting off to Spain for an impromptu Pride holiday, leaving their mothers on his doorstep! Over a chaotic weekend, he has to juggle his burgeoning career with the care of four eccentric, combative, and wildly different ladies. (Runtime: 89min.)

BIFF presents: Park Avenue
2025-05-31 12:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$15
Paralyzed 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. Rediscovering the boy she loved, now her grown doorman Anders, and the life she left at 18, the mother and daughter explore shared history, unshared truths and find a way to face both love and loss. (Runtime: 105min.)

BIFF presents: A Beautiful Imperfection
2025-05-31 09:30 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$15
A 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. Sixteen years later, they meet again when she has reinvented herself as a veiled courtesan now known by the name of Galathée. Without revealing her true identity or showing her face, Lucia and Giacomo become lovers once again. Will Lucia dare to reveal herself and turn her weakness into her strength so that she can be truly free in the eyes of her great love? (Runtime: 102min.)

BIFF presents: The Makings of Curtis Mayfield
2025-05-30 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$15
The 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. (Runtime: 97min.)

BIFF presents: Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion
2025-05-30 16:30 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$15
Bob 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. The film will feature contributions from Mackie’s most famous collaborators, including Carol Burnett, Cher, Mitzi Gaynor, RuPaul Charles, Bernadette Peters, Pink and Miley Cyrus. (Runtime: 105min.)

BIFF presents: For the Living
2025-05-30 13:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$15
When 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. (Runtime: 117min.)

BIFF presents: My Motherland (Ma France à moi)
2025-05-30 10:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$15
France has been living alone in her apartment since the death of her husband. When she hears on the radio that the Singa association puts homeless migrants in contact with people who can take them in, she decides, against the advice of her family, led by her son, to take in Reza, a young Afghan broken by war and exodus. This is the story of two worlds that collide, get used to each other and end up reaching out to each other. (Runtime: 91min.)

BIFF presents: A Man With Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole
2025-05-29 19:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$25
Designer and activist Kenneth Cole and Emmy and Tony Award-winning director Dori Berinstein in attendance for a Q&A following the film with BIFF Board Member Mary Mott.
With heart & ‘sole’ and unflinching determination, global fashion icon/social activist Kenneth Cole has put ’cause’ before ‘commerce’ for 40 years. Kenneth’s commitment to HIV AIDS, homelessness, LGBTQIA+ rights, social justice and mental health, has shattered stigmas, ignited social awareness, given voice to the voiceless, built coalitions and inspired action for good. (Runtime: 98min.)

OLLI's Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture presents: Chris Whipple
2025-05-24 17:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
RESERVE

FREE, General Admission
Reservations Required
Mahaiwe Member Resgistration:
Wednesday, April 23 at noon
Public Registration (if tickets remain):
Wednesday, April 30 at noon
OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College, is honored to present Chris Whipple as its 2025 Mona Sherman Memorial lecturer.
Whipple will discuss his new book Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History. The New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters now turns his sharp eye towards the historic 2024 presidential race, providing the definitive, insider account of the most dramatic and significant political showdown in modern American history.
Chris Whipple is an acclaimed author, political commentator, documentary filmmaker, and speaker. He is the author of The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future, published by Scribner on September 15, 2020. The Spymasters has earned rave reviews; The New York Times called it “one of 15 books to watch for,” and Forbes pronounced it “one of 10 important, insightful, and inspiring books” in 2020.
A frequent guest on MSNBC and CNN, Whipple has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Politico, The Daily Beast, and many other publications. He is the chief executive officer of CCWHIP Productions, and executive producer of the Showtime film, The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs. Whipple was educated at Deerfield Academy and received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in history from Yale College. He lives in Clinton, CT with his wife Cary.
OLLI will be selling copies of Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History at the event. Whipple will be signing books after the lecture.

Sabrina (1954)
2025-05-23 19:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$8 / $5 ages 12 and under
ConnectorCare/WIC/EBT Card to Culture*
Audrey Hepburn plays the titular role in the romantic comedy-drama Sabrina, by celebrated director Billy Wilder. Returning from studying abroad, Sabrina catches the attention of her longtime crush David (William Holden). David’s brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) worries the romance will interfere with a pre-planned family business-related union. (PG, 1h 53min.)

Close Encounters With Music: A Tale of Two Salons – Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust
2025-05-18 16:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$30 – $55

$30 Upper Balcony
$55 Orchestra and Mezzanine
The daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer-Polignac was a force of nature, hosting everyone from Leon Bakst to Jean Cocteau and Jean Giraudoux to Prokofiev, Madame Jean Lanvin, Siegfried Wagner, Arthur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Edith Wharton in her Paris salon. More importantly, she was responsible for developing a new genre: “Great music for a small space by up-and-coming composers” in the words of Sylvia Kahane, her biographer, who will join for the four-hand piano “Bagatelle” by Winnaretta’s husband, Edmond de Polignac. Works either commissioned by her, dedicated to her, or that were performed in her mansion on Rue Henri-Martin, will be featured in our on-stage “salon”: Ravel’s Pavane pour un enfant défunte, Stravinsky’s Piano Sonata 1924, the sizzling César Franck Piano Quintet and songs by Fauré, Poulenc and Reynaldo Hahn. She also befriended Marcel Proust and his lover Hahn, who reciprocated with an evening at their Paris salon, inspiring a chapter in Swann’s Way. A rich tapestry in search of a certain time, place and personages.
Alexander Shtarkman, piano; Sylvia Kahane, piano; William Ferguson, tenor; Xiao-Dong Wang, violin; Grace Park, violin; Helena Baillie, viola; Yehuda Hanani, cello

Met Opera Live in HD: Strauss’s Salome
2025-05-17 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*
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
*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.
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Madeleine Peyroux & Bettye LaVette: Let’s Walk Tour 2025
2025-05-16 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$55 – $85
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
Reserved $55
Preferred $65
Premium $85
Members receive $5 off each ticket
$15 ages 30 and under (visit the Box Office or call 413-528-0100, Wed – Sat, 12-4pm)
Madeleine Peyroux is an American jazz singer and songwriter who began her career as a teenager on the streets of Paris.
“Let us advance our mortal bodies up / Where hearts and minds will go / Let’s walk, let’s roll.” So sings Madeleine Peyroux on the upbeat title track of her captivating ninth album, Let’s Walk, the acclaimed singer-songwriter’s most assured, courageous work to date. Powered by the distinctive, honeyed croon that delivered her from the Paris streets to concert halls, these ten unabashedly personal songs, all co-written by the versatile Peyroux, deftly interweave jazz, folk, and chamber pop, with themes ranging from the confessional to the political, from whimsy to yearning. In every note, Peyroux digs deep, rendering this exquisite work with the disarming grace and gravitas of an artist in peak form.
For the ardently civic-minded Peyroux, Let’s Walk continues the scintillating conversation with her audience – and with the world at large. “This music is part of a dialogue,” she says. “That’s what art is. It’s engagement, community. I believe more than anything in getting together with people and listening to music and conversing. Music is the only way I’ve ever built community.”
Bettye LaVette was hailed by The New York Times as “one of the great soul interpreters of her generation.” She is a singer in the tradition of great vocalists who have come before her like Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, and Dinah Washington, to name just a few. Bettye is an interpreter of the highest order. Her gift is being able to take a song from any genre, whether well known or obscure, and making it completely her own. To quote another great vocalist, the late George Jones, “Bettye is truly a ‘singer’s singer.'”
Her career began in 1962, at 16 years old, in Detroit, Michigan. Her first single, “My Man, He’s a Lovin’ Man,” was on Atlantic Records. Throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s, she recorded for several major labels. She also appeared in the Broadway Musical Bubbling Brown Sugar alongside Honi Coles and Cab Calloway.
Now, at 79 years old and in her 63rd year in show business, she is one of very few of her contemporaries who were recording during the birth of soul music in the 1960s and is still creating vital recordings today.

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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Strauss’s Salome
2025-05-15 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.

Del McCoury Band
2025-05-10 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$44 – $79
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$44 Limited Upper Balcony
$54 Reserved
$59 Preferred
$79 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)
Even among the pantheon of music’s finest artists, Del McCoury stands alone. From the nascent sound of bluegrass that charmed hardscrabble hillbilly honkytonks, rural schoolhouse stages, and the crowning glory of the Grand Ole Opry to the present-day culture-buzz of viral videos and digital streams, Del is the living link. On primetime and late-night television talk shows, there is Del. From headlining sold-out concerts to music festivals of all genres, including one carrying his namesake, there is Del. Where audiences number in the tens of thousands, and admirers as diverse as country-rock icon Steve Earle and jamband royalty Phish count as a few among hundreds, there is Del.
Emerging from humble beginnings in York County, Pa., nearly eighty years ago, Del was not the likeliest of candidates for legendary status. As a teen, he was captivated by the banjo playing of one of its masters, Earl Scruggs, and decided he’d be a banjo picker, too. The Baltimore/Washington, D.C. bar scene of the early 1960s was lively and rough. Del caught a break. More than a break, really. It was an opportunity of a lifetime; joining Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in early 1963. Considered the Father of Bluegrass, Monroe transformed McCoury, moving him from the banjo to guitar, anointing him lead singer, and providing him with a priceless trove of bluegrass tutelage direct from the source.
Countless hours of recording sessions and miles of tireless touring dotted the decades. Del carried on, and carried with him the hallowed traditions of the form and its dedicated following. The passing years became certificates of authenticity. So, in the sea of grunge and R&B that dominated the music scene of the mid-1990s, it was special, perhaps even startling, to see: There was Del.
Now helming the Del McCoury Band, with sons Ronnie and Rob, the ensemble did and continues to represent in a larger, growing musical community a peerless torchbearer for the entire sweep and scope of bluegrass history.
Almost unimaginable, McCoury’s sixth decade in a half-century of bluegrass bliss brings new triumphs, new collaborations, and new music. With but a single change in membership in twenty seven years The Del McCoury Band shows unprecedented stability as well as garnering the respect and admiration of the industry for its unmistakable work: ten IBMA Entertainer of the Year trophies (most recently in 2024); in 2003, Del’s awarded membership in the cast of the legendary Grand Ole Opry; the band’s first Best Bluegrass Album Grammy award, in ’05, followed by a second Grammy win in 2014, (not to mention double-digit nominations).

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Glori Wilder
2025-05-09 20:00 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
TICKETS

$27 General Admission, table seating
The feeling of a dimly lit velvet speakeasy, a dark feline voice serenading the space and the crackle of a fire. This is where Connecticut based soul singer-songwriter Glori Wilder will transport you to: a world drenching you in warmth to walk down a path of emotional acceptance. Guided by lyrics of love, loss and longing, Wilder communicates the delicacy of the ups and downs brought on by troubled relationships.
Glori Wilder’s newest release, her debut album A Culmination of Years highlights the raw honesty that accompanies her feminine rage. The album, recorded at Stone Studio, was recorded acoustic, live and performed all by Wilder with the intention to feel the experience of her live performance from anywhere across the world. Turn the lights down low, light a candle and close your eyes, letting the music take you down the steps into that little velvet speakeasy.
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Pilobolusre:CREATION Tour
2025-05-03 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
Including a post-performance talk with Pilobolus
TICKETS

$28 – $78
Reserved $28
Preferred $58
Premium $78
Members receive $5 off each ticket
$15 ages 30 and under (visit the Box Office or call 413-528-0100, Wed – Sat, 12-4pm)
Step into a realm where imagination knows no limits. The boundaries of gravity and creativity blur, offering an intimate window into the essence of creativity itself with Pilobolus’ re:CREATION Tour, bringing their celebrated collection of repertory to delighted audiences from coast to coast. re:CREATION is a transformative odyssey of reinvention where both audience and artists rediscover, redefine, and recreate timeless narratives through new visions of history, myth, and the innate human need for expression.
Pilobolus will debut its interpretation of Martha Graham’s seminal work, Lamentation, on the Mahaiwe stage to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Martha Graham Dance Company—Graham100—as part of the Lamentation Variations project.
Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies since being founded at Dartmouth College in 1971. Pilobolus has performed on Broadway, at The Oscars, and the Olympic games, and created over 120 dance works. The mission of Pilobolus is to create, perform, and preserve dances, expand and diversify audiences, and teach dancers, non-dancers, and organizations to harness creative potential.
Program:
Bloodlines: This women’s duet, a rare gem in Pilobolus’s 50+ year repertory, explores the natural progression of life, as children eventually come to support their predecessors. Sculptural in form, highlighting balance and strength, and capturing the essence of life’s evolving roles and everlasting cycles. It explores the beautiful complexities of role reversals that are not just inevitable, but also enriching, as they reveal the unfading bonds that link generations.
Lamentation: Pilobolus is honored to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Martha Graham Dance Company—GRAHAM100—by bringing its interpretation of Graham’s seminal work, Lamentation, to the stage as part of the Lamentation Variations Project.
Walklyndon, a seminal piece in Pilobolus’s repertoire, is an all-time favorite that captures the playful essence of the company’s early days. During this time, four men were joyously exploring outlets for creativity, barnstorming the Northeast, and even opening for Frank Zappa. Created in a squash court in Lyndonville, VT, and inspired by silly walks and slapstick, this 50-year-old classic continues to resonate with audiences worldwide. It reflects the company’s penchant for double entendres and boundless energy, filling theaters with squeals of laughter from both children and adults alike.
Tales from the Underworld, a new sextet, is a Pilobolean take on the story ballet, exploring the delicate balance between love and loss. Inspired by the tragic love story of Eurydice and Orpheus, the piece meditates on the rapture of love and how it can draw us into a trance-like descent where the fragility of human connection is laid bare. With an evocative yet cerebral score by Bogie and unique lighting that creates two distinct worlds—the visible realm above and the murky underbelly below—Tales from the Underworld embodies the universal journey of life’s cycles and a renewed sense of responsibility for our shared human experience with a blend of horror, humor, and revelation.
Rushes: A collaboration with world-renowned dance-theater makers Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, Rushes is a mix of movement languages born out of a series of conversations and a laboratory workshop. In an isolated community of broken dreams, six characters navigate belonging, isolation, desperation, and relief, punctuated by surreal humor in a world where Jasque Tati meets Nikolai Gogol. Pilobolus’s quirky partnering, graceful glides, unforgettable props usage, and deep emotional impact make the piece unforgettable. Rushes is a remarkable exploration of the range and intensity of deep collaboration, a harmonious blending of depth and whimsy in an unconventional narrative that touches audiences profoundly.

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Close Encounters With Music: Classical Roots, Latin Soul– The Dalí String Quartet
2025-04-27 16:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$30 – $55
$30 Upper Balcony
$55 Orchestra and Mezzanine
Alongside Beethoven’s Quartet No. 1 Op. 18 and Mendelssohn’s Op. 80 Quartet, this program is infused with striking Latin repertoire: Sonia Morales-Matos’ Divertimento Caribeño No. 3 (dance suites of Caribbean merengue sandwiched around a Cuban bolero) and Astor Piazzolla’s Tango Ballet, a work that paints pictures through rhythms and melodies. The Dalí Quartet is Chamber Music America’s 2024 Ensemble of the Year and the 2019 recipient of the Atlanta Symphony’s esteemed Aspire Award for accomplished African American and Latino Musicians, among other awards. Beethoven’s first of his 16 string quartets contains thematic scaffolding and inspiration from Mozart and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Mendelssohn’s Quartet No. 6 in F minor was written in homage to his sister Fanny, shortly after her death and just before his.
“… beautifully prepared program…the Latin American program alternately glimmered and blazed.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Dalí String Quartet: Ari Isaacman-Beck, violin; Carlos Rubio, violin; Adriana Linares, viola; Jesus Morales, cello

Met Opera Live in HD: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
2025-04-26 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*
On April 26, Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce as the adolescent page Cherubino.
*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.
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Old Crow Medicine Show
2025-04-25 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
Opening Act: Trey Hensley
TICKETS

$75 – $115
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$75 Reserved
$85 Preferred
$115 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)
Old Crow Medicine Show is an American roots band known for their blend of traditional country, old-time string music, bluegrass, and folk. Formed in 1998 in Ithaca, NY, the band rose to prominence after being discovered by bluegrass legend Doc Watson. Their breakthrough came with the song “Wagon Wheel,” which became a platinum hit and has since become a modern American classic.
The band has earned critical acclaim and industry recognition including two Grammy Awards, a Trailblazer award from Americana Music Association, and induction into the Grand Ole Opry. Their latest Grammy nominated album, Jubilee, was released in 2023.
Old Crow Medicine Show is also known for their relentless touring and electrifying live shows, which have captivated audiences at festivals, concert halls, and intimate venues alike. Their annual New Year’s Eve shows at the Ryman Auditorium are a Nashville tradition.
With music that not only honors the traditions of the past but also continues to inspire new generations of fans, Old Crow Medicine Show has become a beloved fixture in the American music landscape.

About the Opener: Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter/guitarist and 2023 IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Guitar Player of the Year Trey Hensley has been called a “musical phenom” by NPR, “a guitar-slinging superhero” by Bluegrass Today and “Nashville’s hottest young player” by Acoustic Guitar magazine. A multiple Grammy nominee widely recognized for his world class musicianship and guitar prowess (Rolling Stone observes “Trey Hensley shreds”), Hensley was invited to perform alongside many of the world’s greatest guitarists at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 in Los Angeles. That same year, Hensley was a featured player in a Guitar World magazine piece titled “6 Blazing Bluegrass Guitarists You Need To Hear.” But with Hensley it’s not just the guitar that does the talking—he’s also well known for his rich, soulful and powerful baritone vocals with echoes of Merle Haggard and George Jones (as Holler put it: “Hensley possesses a strikingly resonate, emotional voice, one that makes him a potent singer outside of his superb finger-picking ability.”)

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Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
2025-04-24 17:30 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230

Diner (1982)
2025-04-19 19:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$8
ConnectorCare/WIC/EBT Card to Culture*
A group of college-age friends toe the line between adolescence and adulthood in 1950s Baltimore in Diner. Starring Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly, and Ellen Barkin, the film is celebrated for its performances and understated direction by Barry Levinson. (R, 1h 50min.)

Billy Keane & The Waking Dream
2025-04-18 20:00 | Indigo Room, 20 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States
Opening Act: Will Lawrence
TICKETS

$27 General Admission
A self-described wanderer, Berkshires-based indie-folk singer-songwriter Billy Keane has cultivated more than his share of lived-in experience. Over the last two years as a solo artist, Keane has paved his way as one of the most exciting new acts in the indie-folk genre through extensive touring with his backing band The Waking Dream, adding an open-format and psychedelic footprint to Keane’s catalog, supporting acts such as Molly Tuttle & The Golden Highway, The Bones of J.R. Jones, The Gin Blossoms and Town Mountain, receiving regular play across Sirius XM’s The Spectrum and critical acclaim in American Songwriter, No Depression, Under The Radar and Relix Magazine.

Chanticleer
2025-04-11 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
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TICKETS

$39 – $69
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$39 Upper Balcony (Limited)
$49 Reserved
$59 Preferred
$69 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)
The Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.
Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements. The ensemble has committed much of its vast recording catalogue to these commissions, garnering Grammy Awards for its recording of Sir John Tavener’s “Lamentations & Praises”, and the ambitious collection of commissioned works entitled “Colors of Love”. Chanticleer is the recipient of the Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming, and its Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings received the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his contribution to the African-American choral tradition during his tenure with Chanticleer.
Named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer continues to maintain ambitious programming in its hometown of San Francisco, including a large education and outreach program that recently reached over 8,000 people, and an annual concert series that includes its legendary holiday tradition “A Chanticleer Christmas”.

How to Survive Middle School
2025-04-07 10:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
60-minute performance
Recommended for: Ages 9-13 / Grades 4-8
Comedian Robert Post barely survived Middle School. Struggling because of various learning disabilities, he found that making people laugh saved him. In this brand new multimedia performance, kids talk to kids in a compelling, funny and educational show. Dealing with real issues affecting students today including social media, testing, bullying and peer pressure these video testimonials by kids and their advocates (along with a generous dose of Post’s signature humor) is sure to resonate with students.
One of Robert Post’s childhood report cards in Columbus, Ohio, gave a hint as to how his future might unfold. Not amused by Robert’s antics, his teacher created a whole new column of categories describing maladaptive behavior. Happily for audiences around the world, Post stuck with antics. The result: a dazzling performance career that continues to defy categories.
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Paquito D'Rivera Quintet
2025-04-05 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$43 – $63
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$43 Reserved
$53 Preferred
$63 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)
NEA Jazz Master, composer, and reedist Paquito D’Rivera brings to life the eclectic fusion of his extensive travels with unparalleled improvisations, multinational rhythms, and original orchestrations. D’Rivera has won a combined 16 Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards (5 Grammy and 11 Latin Grammys). He is celebrated both for his artistry in Latin jazz and his achievements as a classical composer.
Paquito D’Rivera was born in Havana, Cuba. He performed at age 10 with the National Theater Orchestra, studied at the Havana Conservatory of Music, and at 17, became a featured soloist with the Cuban National Symphony. He directed Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna for two years while contemporaneously playing both the clarinet and saxophone with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. Di’Rivera is a founding member and co-director of the innovative musical ensemble Irakere. With its explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music, Irakere toured extensively throughout America and Europe, receiving several Grammy nominations, winning one in 1979.
His numerous recordings include more than 30 solo albums. In 1988, he was a founding member of the United Nation Orchestra, a 15-piece ensemble organized by Dizzy Gillespie to showcase the fusion of Latin and Caribbean influences with jazz. D’Rivera continues to appear as guest conductor. United Nation Orchestra won a Grammy in 1991, the same year D’Rivera received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Carnegie Hall for his contributions to Latin music. D’Rivera’s highly acclaimed ensembles – the Chamber Jazz Ensemble, the Paquito D’Rivera Big Band, and the Paquito D’Rivera Quintet – are in great demand worldwide.

Born Yesterday (1950)
2025-04-04 19:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$8 / $5 ages 12 and under
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Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, and William Holden star in this classic comedy-drama from 1950 by George Cukor. The story follows wealthy junkyard tycoon Harry Brock’s (Crawford) travels to Washington to lobby Congress. Brock hires journalist Paul Verrall (Holden) to teach his girlfriend Billie Dawn (Holliday) D.C. etiquette, and his plans go awry. The film was nominated for five Oscars, with Holliday winning Best Actress. (PG, 1h 43min.)

London’s National Theatre in HD: Dr. Strangelove
2025-03-29 18:30 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$17 / $10 ages 21 and under
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Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove.
This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack, is led by a world-renowned creative team including Emmy Award-winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley. (Rated R. 2h, 10min.)
Warning: This performance contains flashing lights/bright/strobe lights that may trigger a seizure if you have epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
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José González
2025-03-28 20:00 | Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA, 01230
TICKETS

$49 – $84
Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
$49 Upper Balcony (Limited)
$59 Reserved
$69 Preferred
$84 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)
Indie-folk singer-songrwriter/guitarist José González is in a class by himself. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “someone whose subtle, carefully crafted music delivers rewards to listeners who know how to wait,” González’s stellar career can only be described as a dream. From selling out tours on virtually every continent to headlining prestigious festivals around the world to being asked to perform at 2020’s Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and seeing his recorded music exceed 1 billion streams, González is one of the most exciting and in-demand touring artists working today. Whether appearing alone with his guitar or with a 20-piece orchestra, or with his band The Brite Lites, or choosing between duo and trio formats, his performances are never merely shows – they are events.
