Community Second Homelands PowWow Brings Over 160 Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans Back to the Berkshires "Tending the Fire," October 3–4 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, marks the largest gathering of Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican people on their ancestral homelands since the tribe's removal westward in the 1780s. By Jamie Larson •
Arts "The Norwegians" Brings Impossibly Polite Hitmen to Shakespeare & Company C. Denby Swanson's dark comedy about heartbreak, revenge, and Midwestern niceness gets a cast anchored by longtime company veterans By Jamie Larson •
Arts Cynthia Erivo Defies Expectations and Creates Her Own Gravitational Pull With the Boston Pops at Tanglewood In her Tanglewood debut, Erivo turned a night of standards into a happening and put the entire audience under her spell. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Olga Dunn Dance Company Brings Wharton Inspired Performance to the Mount's Terraced Lawns A site-responsive performance of choreography, spoken word, and live cello closes with dances honoring the final chapter of the writer's life By Jamie Larson •
Arts Four Nights with Laurie Anderson: A Career That Refuses to Sit Still at Tanglewood Amelia Earhart, Lou Reed's guitars, and a new work about the Declaration of Independence—the artist's first-ever Tanglewood appearance spans an opera, a conversation with Peter Sellars, a drone piece, and a night of storytelling By Jamie Larson •
Arts Hugh Jackman Makes His Tanglewood Debut with the Boston Pops A career-spanning night in Lenox MA, of Hollywood glamour and Broadway hits—from "The Greatest Showman" to "Les Misérables." By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate Big 1915 Brick Colonial on a Full Acre in Lenox Pocket doors, crown moldings, a marble kitchen, 5 bedrooms, and a summer porch—a short walk from Tanglewood. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Christian McBride Tells Stories with his Stings at Tanglewood The 11-time Grammy-winning bassist brings his TLI Spotlight evening to Ozawa Hall: a personal story, a live performance, and a conversation with Catherine Burns. By Jamie Larson •
Arts "Fireflies" Brings a Late-Life Romance and Small-Town Gossip to Shakespeare & Company Isabel Keating and Jeb Brown star in Matthew Barber's Texas two-hander, directed by Daniela Varon By Jamie Larson •
Arts Emanuel Ax Plays Mozart and Mahler with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood A concert pairing two composers at their most intimate—with Erin Morley as soprano in Mahler's child-like, unsettling Fourth. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Lenox Summer Art Festival Returns to Lilac Park 50-plus juried artists and artisans take over downtown Lenox for a free weekend of original work, live music, and food. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate The Kemble: A Registered Gilded Age Estate, Turnkey as a Luxury Rental, in Downtown Lenox Built in 1881 for Frederick Frelinghuysen, secretary of state under Chester A. Arthur, the property has been a private residence, a boys' school dormitory, and an inn—now offered as a 13-bedroom income-producing estate. By Jamie Larson •