Arts Juilliard's Top Lawyer Teaches Art and Justice at Tanglewood Lesley Rosenthal's "Arts and the Rule of Law" uses music and visual art to examine what justice looks like when it holds, and when it breaks down. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Yacht Rock Revue Brings "PRIMETIME" to Ozawa Hall Rolling Stone's "world's premier soft-rock party band" plays Tanglewood with renditions of Steely Dan, Michael McDonald, and the rest of the dadrock genre. By Jamie Larson •
Community "Motherland": Julia Ioffe's Monumental New Text on Russian Women Opens Summer Book Series at The Mount "Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy" is now required reading, and her book talk at the Mount is a can't-miss kickoff to a season of strongly curated events July 6-7. By Jamie Larson •
Food "Fork in the Road": Mary Berry, Nick Offerman, and Veteran "Chopped" Producer Expose a Food System in Peril at BIFF The documentary, its makers, and stars come to the Berkshire International Film Festival May 29 and 30. By Jamie Larson •
Arts "Flourish": Sculpture at The Mount Opens for the Season "Flourish," is a show organized around themes of growth, resilience, connection, and the ways communities come together and thrive. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Celebrating African-American Choral Music at Tanglewood Berkshire Choral International returns to Tanglewood for a Memorial Day Weekend concert at Ozawa Hall on May 24, By Jamie Larson •
Arts The Birch Festival at Tanglewood Saturday Florence Price, Gottschalk, a Washington letter, and Regie Gibson at the Linde Center. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Justice Alito and Conservative Legal Revenge: Journalist Peter S. Canellos in Lenox Lenox Library and The Berkshire Eagle host prize-winning journalist Peter S. Canellos in conversation with editor Priscilla Painton to discuss his new book, "Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement." By Jamie Larson •
Arts 20th Berkshire International Film Festival With Amy Goodman and Karen Allen, May 28–31 For its 20th edition, the Berkshire International Film Festival features Amy Goodman, Karen Allen, and 80-plus films from 27 countries. By Jamie Larson • •
Arts A Play About Women and a Viral Treehouse: "Rooted" by WAM in Lenox WAM Theatre opens "Rooted," a new comedy by Deborah Zoe Laufer running May 1 through 16 at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theater at Shakespeare & Company. By Jamie Larson •
Arts UFOs Land at Tanglewood—in New Concert that Invokes 1969 Local Sightings “Mirage,” a composition by Daniel Wohl, will be performed at Tanglewood’s Linde Center by contemporary quartet Hub New Music. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Jon Stewart Brings Politically Cutting Comedy (and a Drum Kit) to Tanglewood Stewart will make his Tanglewood debut June 20, performing a comedy set after backing his band Church and State on drums. By Jamie Larson •