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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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Being There (1979)

Friday, April 24 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Being There is a comedic political satire directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, and Melvyn Douglas.

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Adam Gopnik’s New York

Saturday, April 25 at 7:00 pm

Adam Gopnik, noted New Yorker writer and best-selling author, brings his new one-man show, Adam Gopnik’s New York, to the Mahaiwe’s mainstage.

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CANCELED – Literacy Network presents: True Stories, Told Live!

Sunday, April 26 at 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

PLEASE NOTE: This event has been canceled. 

Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

Thursday, April 30 at 5:30 pm

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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Michael Feinstein – Big Band Broadway featuring the Carnegie Hall Ensemble

Friday, May 1 at 8:00 pm

Broadway never sounds better than when it swings. With the greatest contemporary jazz musicians, Michael Feinstein swings the songbook into the 21st Century.

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Met Opera Live in HD: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

Saturday, May 2 at 1:00 pm

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin.

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Indigo Comedy Night with Christian Finnegan

Friday, May 8 at 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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An Evening with Railroad Earth

Saturday, May 9 at 8:00 pm

For over two decades, Railroad Earth has captivated audiences with gleefully unpredictable live shows and eloquent and elevated studio output.

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100 Years of Movies: Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Friday, May 15 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Bringing Up Baby is a classic screwball comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.

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Pilobolust

Saturday, May 16 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Rebellious dance theater company Pilobolus turns up the heat with tantalizing talent, bawdy bewitchment, and scintillating scenarios in their full-bodied, censor-unfriendly Pilobolust.

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Pilobolust

Saturday, May 16 at 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Rebellious dance theater company Pilobolus turns up the heat with tantalizing talent, bawdy bewitchment, and scintillating scenarios in their full-bodied, censor-unfriendly Pilobolust.

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Close Encounters With Music: Vivace Baroque Orchestra: The Four Seasons—Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla

Sunday, May 17 at 4:00 pm

Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons (with his accompanying sonnets) and Piazzolla’s sultry Four Seasons of Buenos Airesmeet in a program where time, place, and style intertwine.

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100 Years of Movies: The Big Sleep (1946)

Friday, May 22 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Iconic duo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star in The Big Sleep, a classic film noir by director Howard Hawks. 

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OLLI’s Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture presents: Dana Bash

Saturday, May 23 at 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College, is honored to present Dana Bash as its 2026 Mona Sherman Memorial speaker. Bash will be interviewed by Lisa Sharkey. 

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BIFF presents: Opening Night Film – Steal This Story, Please!

Thursday, May 28 at 7:00 pm

Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from war zones and the Democracy Now! newsroom.

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BIFF presents: No Comment

Friday, May 29 at 9:15 am

It’s election season. Prime Minister Alma Solvik who is both liked and respected is surfing toward re-election. Then the bubble bursts.

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BIFF presents: Italian Wannabe

Friday, May 29 at 11:30 am

In this tender meditation on how food nourishes culture and community, chef Bill Disselhorst returns to the Italian village that first inspired him to open his own restaurant in California

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BIFF presents: Tea Talk with Barbara Kopple – 50th Anniversary Screening of Oscar-Winning Doc, Harlan County

Friday, May 29 at 2:15 pm

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

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BIFF presents: Kenny Loggins – Conviction of the Heart

Friday, May 29 at 5:00 pm

Everybody cut footloose! From chart-topping anthems to movie soundtracks, multi-award-winning singer songwriter Kenny Loggins reflects on a career that defined a generation, tracing his life on and off stage across decades of reinvention.

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BIFF presents: Unfinished Song

Friday, May 29 at 8:00 pm

Unfinished Song is the story of a black woman singer, Wanda Houston.

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