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Clark Art exhibition on French theatre and art tops Berkshires fall schedule

Visions of the Stage: Prints and Drawings, 1600-1800, an exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA will run during Berkshires fall foliage season. The exhibition explores the relationships between theater, visual art, and performance in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France.

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Pittsfield Third Thursday highlights - Aug. 21, 2008

Highlights of events in downtown Pittsfield, MA for the 3rd Thursday of August 2008 include performances by Hector on Stilts, Robin O'Herin, the cast of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and the Berkshire Opera.

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Ozawa Hall recital, Tanglewood on Parade

Patrons enjoying Tanglewood Music Center fellows' performances and recitals in Ozawa Hall during Tanglewood on Parade, Aug. 5, 2008.

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• August 10: James McNeill Whistler's nocturnes, which were some of his most controversial and influential paintings, will be the subject of the lecture "Night in the City: Whistler, Fireworks, and Dancing Girls" at 3 pm, at the Clark. Margaret MacDonald, co-author of the Whistler paintings catalogue raisonné and author of the Whistler drawings, pastels, and watercolors catalogue raisonné, will discuss Whistler's nocturnes and their relation to his life and times. Admission to the lecture is free. The Clark, 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA. www.clarkart.edu, 413-458-2303. Through October 19: Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly, the first exhibition to explore "painting softly," a distinctive and unexamined approach to painting exemplified in works by James McNeill Whistler and George Inness, is on view at the Clark. The exhibition brings together forty paintings by leading American artists working around 1900, including James McNeill Whistler, George Inness, William Merritt Chase, John Twachtman, Eduard Steichen, and others, to examine this style of painting through which artists obscured their brush strokes. The Clark, 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA. www.clarkart.edu, 413-458-2303. #
• Stockbridge, MA – BTF PLAYS!, Berkshire Theatre Festival’s year-round education program, presents Around the World in 80 Days adapted by Mark Brown from the novel by Jules Verne and directed by Amy Brentano. This madcap adventure opens on August 6 and runs through August 23, playing Monday through Friday at 11am and Saturday at 10am in the Unicorn Theatre. Tickets are $7 for children/students and $15 for adults. Order tickets via the box office at 413-298-5576 or online at www.berkshiretheatre.org. As part of Community Festival Day, there will be a free performance of Around the World in 80 Days sponsored by Berkshire Bank and Minkler Insurance Agency, a division of Berkshire Insurance Group, on Friday, August 15, 11am at the Unicorn Theatre. #
• Stockbridge, MA – Berkshire Theatre Festival presents Samuel Beckett’s classic tragicomedy Waiting for Godot, directed by Anders Cato, at the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, MA. Waiting for Godot previews July 29 through August 1 at 8pm and August 2 at 2 pm. Opening night (press night) is August 2 at 8 pm. The production runs through August 23. Performances are Monday through Saturday evenings at 8pm with matinees at 2pm on Saturdays. A free post-show discussion between the cast and audience will be held following the August 4 performance. #
• (Pittsfield, MA) Barrington Stage Company’s Youth Theatre is now partnering with the Pittsfield YMCA to provide access to the arts through the YMCA summer camp program. As part of getting the campers involved in the arts, the cast of Seussical visited with the youngest of the campers on July 23rd at BCC to read Dr. Seuss books and discuss their roles in the production. Following the production on July 31st, campers will have the opportunity to chat with the cast and ask questions about the show. #
• Boston Symphony Orchestra Managing Director, Mark Volpe, reported today that its Music Director, James Levine, was released from the hospital this past weekend. According to Mr. Volpe, Maestro Levine was hospitalized on Tuesday, July 15, for surgery to remove a growth in his kidney. Tom Levine, James Levine's brother, reported to Mr. Volpe that doctors "found the growth to be malignant, but it was very small and confined to the central area of his right kidney, which was then removed. Fortunately, as the growth was discovered early enough, it had not spread to the surrounding tissues, blood vessels, or lymph nodes." Doctors reported the surgery was completely curative and no further treatment is necessary. Tom Levine also stated that his brother was very relieved by the doctors' report, is in very good spirits recuperating at home, and looks forward to conducting the opening events of the 2008/2009 seasons of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera in September. Maestro Levine is Music Director of both institutions. #