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Great Barrington, Mass.—The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center has added three new shows to its year-round schedule: soul musician Marc Broussard on July 11, country singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash on July 23, and comedian Paul Reiser on July 25. In addition, the organization will continue its 100 Years of Movies series with returning film director and educator Deborah Reinisch, and has announced the first three titles for this year’s run: The Philadelphia Story on June 6, The Maltese Falcon on June 19; and Singin’ in the Rain on July 5.
“We are pleased to be offering these stars at the height of summer alongside a raft of classic films expertly introduced,” says Mahaiwe Executive Director Janis Martinson. “Broussard, Cash and Reiser are multi-talented performers who continue to add layers of nuance year by year. They will move you, give you reason to think, and create lasting memories.”
Cash and Reiser’s performances join Steve Earle (June 14), Los Lobos (June 20), Shawn Colvin and Rodney Crowell (June 21), Pure Prairie League (July 7), LeAnn Rimes (August 6) and Berkshire Opera Festival (August 23-29) on the Mahaiwe calendar this summer. More summer events are to be announced soon.
The film series will include additional titles; stay tuned for further announcements.
Marc Broussard
The Mahaiwe will present soul singer-songwriter Marc Broussard on Friday, July 11 at 8 p.m. Broussard is an artist with a unique gift of channeling the spirits of classic R&B, rock, and soul into contemporary terms. The son of Louisiana Hall of Fame guitarist Ted Broussard of “The Boogie Kings,” he nurtured his musical gifts at an early age in the vibrant Lafayette, Louisiana music scene. After releasing a highly successful independent EP at age 20, Broussard made his major-label debut with Carencro. The album featured the breakout hit single “Home” and catapulted him into the national spotlight. The Louisiana-born and raised artist has created a wide range of music in his career. Carencro laid the groundwork with unequaled style, illustrating his knack for modern soul music and setting the stage for his long and distinguished career. That album and the others that followed solidified Broussard as a southern soul singer with a rarefied talent and an innate stylistic and emotional authenticity that have made him one of the most indelible artists of his generation. NPR cited, “His music radiates soulful Louisiana blues, but his songs blend those influences with raucous rock ‘n’ roll to create unique and infectious music.”
Broussard’s incomparable brand of soul, an infectious mix of rock, blues, R&B, funk-pop, and soul coupled with his powerful vocals, has garnered worldwide praise from critics and fans alike. His recent release, S.O.S. 4 Blues for Your Soul, a collaboration with blues legend Joe Bonamassa is a stellar collection of blues and soul classics that debuted at Number One on the Billboard Blues Album Chart. The fourth volume in his S.O.S. series, the album benefits Bonamassa’s charitable foundation.
Marc Broussard’s new studio album, Time is a Thief finds the acclaimed singer/songwriter delivering an infectious ten-song set filled with gritty, rootsy hooks and dance-floor grooves, all wrapped around Broussard’s fervent vocals. Produced by Grammy-winning guitarist/songwriter/producer Eric Krasno and Grammy-nominated producer/guitarist Jeremy Most, Time Is a Thief has a funky, soulful sound and is wonderfully layered with diverse sonic textures that distinguish it from his previous recordings. His first album of new music since 2017’s, Easy to Love, Time is a Thief arrives via his Artist Tone Label.
Tickets are $39 to $59 with discounts for Mahaiwe Members and individuals ages 30 and under.
Rosanne Cash
Country singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash returns to the Mahaiwe on Wednesday, July 23, at 8 p.m. “One of the most ambitious and literary songwriters of her generation” (Rolling Stone), Rosanne Cash is America’s foremost musical woman of letters, a literate and incisive artist whose poignant and distinctive vocals turn every song into a revelatory tale. A singular artist at the peak of her interpretive powers, Cash has earned four Grammy awards—three for The River & The Thread (2014, Blue Note)—and 12 additional nominations. Among many other accolades, in 2021 she became the first woman to receive the Edward MacDowell award for music composition. Her acclaimed 2010 memoir Composed has been described by the Chicago Tribune as “one of the best accounts of an American life you’ll likely ever read.” Cash was recently elected as an Honorary American member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
“I consider artists to be in the service industry; the premier service industry for the heart and soul,” Cash has stated. “I am curious to a pathological degree and the Sword of Time hangs over me, and those two things — curiosity and the hourglass — make me feel more urgent than ever to connect, to find community, and to create. It doesn’t matter what the world thinks, it only matters that what is unsaid and what is unseen is given form and has a voice.”
In 2023 Rosanne and her husband John Leventhal, the six-time Grammy winning songwriter, producer and life-long creative partner, launched RumbleStrip Records, an initiative to reexamine and reissue Rosanne’s early work, originally released on Columbia / Sony Music, and beyond. Cash and Leventhal are currently writing the music to the theatrical production of Norma Rae.
Tickets are $45 to $95 with discounts for Mahaiwe Members and individuals ages 30 and under.
Paul Reiser
Comedian Paul Reiser will perform at the Mahaiwe on Friday, July 25 at 8 p.m. An actor, television writer, author and musician, Paul Reiser is one of Hollywood’s most prolific creatives. Voted by Comedy Central as one of the Top 100 Comedians of All Time, Reiser regularly performs sold-out standups at venues nationwide.
On the heels of his comedy The Problem with People (2023), which he wrote, produced, and starred in alongside Colm Meaney and Jane Levy, Reiser has been involved in many recent projects across a multitude of media formats. Reiser is widely celebrated for his roles in two hit shows for Netflix: Stranger Things — the company’s biggest series of all time — and Chuck Lorre’s The Kominsky Method, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor. Mad About You, the long-running Emmy, Peabody, and Golden Globe-winning comedy that Reiser created and starred in with Helen Hunt returned as a limited series in 2019.
Throughout his prolific career, Reiser has worked with both independent and mainstream filmmakers. Having earned acclaim for his supporting role in the Academy Award-winning film Whiplash, Reiser was also seen in frequent collaborator Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours and Horse Girl, which premiered at Sundance 2020, the fourth film the pair has worked on together. The veteran actor has garnered praise for notable performances in films such as Diner, Bye Bye Love, One Night At McCool’s, and The Thing About My Folks, which Reiser wrote for his co-star Peter Falk.
Over the course of his career, Reiser has received multiple Emmys, Golden Globes, American Comedy Awards, and Screen Actors Guild nominations.
Tickets are $34 to $59 with discounts for Mahaiwe Members and individuals ages 30 and under.
100 Years of Movies with Deborah Reinisch
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 lecture at the top of the screening.
The Mahaiwe will screen George Cukor’s classic comedy The Philadelphia Story (1940), Friday June 6 at 7 p.m. Starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart in a romantic romp about marriage and high society, the film marked Hepburn’s box office breakthrough and earned two Oscars – Best Actor (Stewart) and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Mahaiwe will screen The Maltese Falcon (1941) on Thursday, June 19 at 7.pm. The film stars Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in a detective drama centered around a mysterious prized statuette. Highly acclaimed upon release and since considered a classic, it was among the first 25 movies selected by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry.
The Mahaiwe will screen Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s timeless musical Singin’ in the Rain (1952) on Saturday, July 5 at 7 p.m. Starring Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds, the plot follows actors navigating the change from silent films to talkies. The movie sits atop the American Film Institute’s lists of greatest musicals.
Further titles are to be announced.
Deborah Reinisch has produced and directed award-winning movies and series for network, cable and public television, including the Emmy Award and National Board of Review winner Andre’s Mother. Her recent directing credits include Bull, Madam Secretary, and NCIS: New Orleans for CBS. Prior to her work in television, Deborah worked as first assistant director on many feature films, including Blood Simple and Raising Arizona for Joel and Ethan Coen. Deborah taught directing, production and film history at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Brooklyn College/Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, and Columbia University. This spring Deborah is teaching Hooray for Hollywood: the Great Directors & Great Movies of the Studio Era at Berkshire OLLI.
Movie tickets are $8 or $5 for ages 12 and under.
Tickets
Tickets to Marc Broussard, Rosanne Cash and Paul Reiser go on sale to Mahaiwe Members on Wednesday, April 2 at noon, and to the public on Friday, April 4 at noon. Tickets can be purchased online at mahaiwe.org, or by calling or visiting the Box Office, 413-528-0100, on Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.
To learn more about Mahaiwe Membership, contact Brenna Hull at 413-644-9040 x107 or brenna@mahaiwe.org, or visit mahaiwe.org/membership.
Individuals ages 30 and under are eligible for $15 youth tickets. Visit the Box Office or call 413-528-0100 Wednesday through Saturday, from noon to 4 p.m.
Tickets to movies are on sale now.
About the Mahaiwe
Located in downtown Great Barrington, Mass., the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is the year-round presenter of world-class music, dance, theater, classic films, Live in HD broadcasts, and arts education programs for the southern Berkshires and neighboring regions. The intimate jewel box of a theater opened in 1905. Since 2005, the performing arts center has hosted over 1,500 events and welcomed over half a million people through its doors. More than 27,000 students from 77 different schools have benefited from the Mahaiwe’s school-time performances and residencies. For more information, see mahaiwe.org.
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