Mahaiwe Events

The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington offers an exciting night out in the Berkshires. The beautiful historic theater offers music, dance, theater, opera, movies and family programs.

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Samantha Bee: How to Survive Menopause

Friday, November 13 at 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Samantha Bee wants to talk about menopause. She actually doesn’t want to, but she must. In How To Survive Menopause, Bee comically shares everything she has learned through the process in an intimate one-woman show, because everyone needs that best friend who will keep it real for them.

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Cowboy Junkies – Celebrating 40 Years and Beyond

Saturday, November 14 at 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

“One of the most unique and enduring bands in alternative rock” - All Music

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Indigo Comedy Night with Meghan Hanley

Friday, November 20 at 8:00 pm

Meghan Hanley is a Brooklyn based, internationally touring stand-up comedian, who has been featured in Forbes and appeared on AXSTV’s Gotham Comedy Live, The MSG Network, DreamsTV, and Fox’s Laughs and Red Eye.

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Sean Mason Trio

Saturday, November 21 at 5:30 pm

Sean Mason stands as one of the most compelling and visionary artists to emerge from the jazz tradition in the 21st century—a jazz pianist and composer whose impact extends far beyond the bandstand.

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Sean Mason Trio

Saturday, November 21 at 8:30 pm

Sean Mason stands as one of the most compelling and visionary artists to emerge from the jazz tradition in the 21st century—a jazz pianist and composer whose impact extends far beyond the bandstand.

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Shire Stories with Sheela Clary

Sunday, November 22 at 4:00 pm

In honor of Thanksgiving, Shire Stories presents an afternoon of local storytellers sharing their conflict-ridden stories of Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Saturday, November 28 at 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion return to the big screen for the Mahaiwe’s annual Thanksgiving weekend tradition. Judy Garland stars in this timeless musical by Victor Fleming.

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Scott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.

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Richard Marx

Friday, December 4 at 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Marx is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and producer whose career has spanned four decades of chart success and creative reinvention.

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Celebrate the season with Grammy Award-winning artists Aoife O'Donovan and Chris Thile as they illuminate treasured holiday songs with spellbinding harmonies and joyful musicality.

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Sacred, scandalous, and irresistibly alluring, Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him returns in the Met’s larger-than-life production.

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Indigo Comedy Night with Steven Rogers

Friday, December 11 at 8:00 pm

Steven Rogers is a stand-up comedian known for his unique blend of wit, vulnerability, and sharp observational humor.

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Olaf’s Frozen Adventure (2017)

Saturday, December 12 at 4:00 pm

The Mahaiwe will screen the animated short Olaf’s Frozen Adventure on loop for free at the Indigo Room from 4pm to 7pm in conjunction with Great Barrington’s Holiday Shop, Sip & Stroll.

With this extraordinary program, the internationally celebrated performer Yael Rasooly, known for her magnetic stage presence, powerful vocals, and virtuoso puppetry, makes her CEWM debut, masterfully weaving together the bold, satirical songs of the Weimar era and Edith Piaf’s Paris.

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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Friday, December 18 at 7:00 pm

It’s a Wonderful Life tells the story of George Bailey (James Stewart) a lost soul struggling around Christmastime.

Guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli has been hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.”

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The Berkshire Bach Society presents Bach at New Year’s: A Joyful Noise, an event that has been a holiday tradition since 1993.

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Scott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.

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Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West

Saturday, January 23, 2027 at 1:00 pm

Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones, marking the company’s first new production of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years.

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DakhaBrakha

Saturday, January 30, 2027 at 8:00 pm

DakhaBrakha is a music quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine.

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