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SATURDAY

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MUSIC

Barrington Stage • Mr. Finn’s Cabaret Series: today, Tina Fabrique, jazz vocalist Tina Fabrique with a musical journey through Ella Fitzegerald’s Great American Songbook (also on June 4) • 8 pm • Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden St., Pittsfield, MA • info and tickets ($30/E$35) at www.barringtonstageco.org or 413-236-8888

Music from Salem • concert by participants from the weeklong Music from Salem Viola & Violin Seminar. Students and faculty perform selections from sonatas and chamber music with three minute get-to-know-you introductions about themselves and their pieces • 4 pm • Hubbard Hall • Admission: Pay what you wish, so everyone can attend ($15 suggested contribution) • info at www.hubbardhall.org or 518-677-2495

SPAC (Saratoga Performing Arts Center) • first-ever “Festival of Young Artists” • 2-5 pm • event is free to the community; however reservations are recommended

THEATER

Today’s
theater times

Barrington Stage • “Typhoid Mary” (runs May 23-June 16) • 3 pm

Circle Theatre Players presents “The Importance of Being Ernest” (runs June 1-3, 7-10) • 2:30 pm

Ghent Playhouse • “Our Town” (runs May 18-June 3) • today’s time, 2 pm

Mac-Haydn • “Damn Yankees” (runs May 24-June 3) • 2 & 7 pm

Shakespeare & Co • “Morning After Grace” (runs May 24-July 15) • 3 pm

FILM

Images • film“RBG” about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who has unexpectedlly become a pop culture icon (runs rhrough June 6) • today’s times, 3:30 & 6 pm • www.imagescinema.

Images • film “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word” (runs June 1-6) • today’s times,3 & 530 pm • www.imagescinema.org

Mahaiwe • Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF): today, Kid Flix at 9:30 am; Moving Stories at 11:30 am; TEA TALK: sneak preview screening and Q&A with filmmakers at 2 pm; “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” (about Fred Rogers) at 7 pm • more info at www.mahaiwe.org

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MUSIC

Barrington Stage • Mr. Finn’s Cabaret Series: today, Tina Fabrique, jazz vocalist Tina Fabrique with a musical journey through Ella Fitzegerald’s Great American Songbook (also on June 3) • 8 pm • Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden St., Pittsfield, MA • info and tickets ($30/E$35) at www.barringtonstageco.org or 413-236-8888

Caffè Lena • Open mic night • Sign-up is 7 pm to 7:25 pm Show at 7:30 / 2 songs or 10 minutes • info at www.caffelena.org

THEATER

Mac-Haydn • “Damn Yankees” (runs May 24-June 3) • 8 pm

Shakespeare & Co • “Morning After Grace” (runs May 24-July 15) • 7:30 pm

FILM

Images • film“RBG” about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who has unexpectedlly become a pop culture icon (runs through June 6) • today’s times, 3, 5 & 7:30 pm • www.imagescinema.org

Tuesday
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THEATER

Barrington Stage • “Typhoid Mary” (runs throughJune 16) • 7:30 pm

Shakespeare & Co • “Morning After Grace” (runs May 24-July 15) • 7:30 pm

FILM

Images • film“RBG” about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who has unexpectedlly become a pop culture icon (runs through June 6) • today’s times, 3, 5 & 7:30 pm • www.imagescinema.org

Images • film “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word” (runs June 1-6) • today’s times, 2:30, 4:30, 7 & 9 pm • www.imagescinema.org

MISC.

Northshire Saratoga American History Reading Group meets to discuss “The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America” by Geoffrey O’Brien • 5:30 pm • at the Bookstore, 424 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY • Please email Mike Hare at mhare@northshire.com to inquire or join this group!

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MUSIC

Berkshire Music School • Student Recital from the studio of Amy Renak, piano • 6 pm • Taft Recital Hall, 30 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA. • free • more info at 413-442-1411 or berkshiremusicschool.org

Concert at Windsor Lake • Today’s concert: Misty Blues • 6:30 pm • at Windsor Lake (intersection of Kemp and Bradley Streets), North Adams, MA • free • info at explorenorthadams.com/item/concerts-at-windsor-lake

SPAC (Saratoga Performing Arts Center) • The National Ballet of Cuba presents a performance of the romantic and visually striking story ballet, “Giselle” (runs June 6-8) • today’s time, 8 pm • $30-$105 • www.spac.org  

Caffè Lena • Poetry Open Mic with Featured Reader Paul Pines • 7 pm sign-up, and the readings start at 7:30 • tickets ($5) at door • www.caffelena.org

THEATER

Barrington Stage • “Typhoid Mary” (runs throughJune 16) • 7:30 pm

Shakespeare & Co • “Morning After Grace” (runs May 24-July 15) • 7:30 pm

FILM

Images • film“RBG” about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who has unexpectedlly become a pop culture icon (last day) • today’s times, 3, 5 & 7:30 pm • www.imagescinema.org

Mahaiwe • film “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” (1994). Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret • 7 pm • $8 • more info at www.mahaiwe.org

MISC.

Northshire Dark Side Reading Group (Manchester store) meets to discuss “Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
by Patrick Phillips • 1 pm • at the Northshire conference room • Please email Alden Graves at agraves@northshire.com to inquire or join this group!

Thursday

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MUSIC

Berkshire Music School • Adult Recital (adult students from various studios) Coffee, wine, beer available • 6 pm • Taft Recital Hall, 30 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA. • $10 recommended admission at the door • more info at 413-442-1411 or berkshiremusicschool.org

Caffè Lena • Roy Book Binder — travelling the world as a “keeper of the flame” and ambassador of the blues • 7 pm • info and tickets ($20/$18 or $10 for children/students) at www.caffelena.org

DANCE

SPAC (Saratoga Performing Arts Center) • The National Ballet of Cuba presents a performance of the romantic and visually striking story ballet, “Giselle” (runs June 6-8) • today’s time, 2 pm • $30-$105 • www.spac.org

THEATER

Barrington Stage • “Typhoid Mary” (runs throughJune 16) • 3 & 7:30 pm

Barrington Stage • “The Royal Family of Broadway” (runs June 7-July 7) • 8 pm

Circle Theatre Players presents “The Importance of Being Ernest” (runs June 1-3, 7-10) • 8 pm

Mac-Haydn • “Funny Girl” (runs June 7-17) • 2 & 8 pm

FILM

Images • film“RBG” about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who has unexpectedlly become a pop culture icon (runs May 18-24) • today’s times, 3, 5 & 7:30 pm • www.imagescinema.org

Images • film “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word” (runs June 1-6) • today’s times, 2:30, 4:30, 7 & 9 pm • www.imagescinema.org

Mahaiwe • film “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” (1994). Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret • 7 pm • $8 • more info at www.mahaiwe.org

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MUSIC

Caffè Lena • Tin Can Alley • 8 pm • info and tickets ($18/$16 or $9 for children/students) at www.caffelena.org

Guthrie Center • 2018 Troubadour Series: today, Johnny Irion • 8 pm (doors 6 pm) • at the Guthrie Center, Van Deusenville Road, Great Barrington • tickets $20/$25 • more info at www.guthriecenter.org

Helsinki Hudson • country-folk singer-songwriter Iris DeMent • 9 pm (doors 6 pm) • info and tickets ($35-$45 at helsinkihudson.com

DANCE

SPAC (Saratoga Performing Arts Center) • The National Ballet of Cuba presents a performance of the romantic and visually striking story ballet, “Giselle” (runs June 6-8) • today’s time, 8 pm • $30-$105 • www.spac.org  

THEATER

PS21 presents a staged reading of Ionesco’s “The Chairs” (runs June 8, 9, and 10). Veteran actors Fern Sloan and Ted Pugh bring a ``resh interpretation of this delightfully absurdist tragic farce about the imaginary world of a very old couple living in a house on an island • today’s time, 8 pm • at PS21’s new theater located at 2980 Route 66, Chatham, NY • tickets ($25/$20, or $10 for students) and info at www.ps21chatham.org

Barrington Stage • “Typhoid Mary” (runs throughJune 16) • 7:30 pm

Barrington Stage • “The Royal Family of Broadway” (runs June 7-July 7) • 8 pm

Circle Theatre Players presents “The Importance of Being Ernest” (runs June 1-3, 7-10) • 8 pm

Mac-Haydn • “Funny Girl” (runs June 7-17) • 8 pm

Shakespeare & Co • “Morning After Grace” (runs May 24-July 15) • 7:30 pm

MISC.

Northshire (Saratoga store) • KIDS event: story time with author Katy Farber & educators from the Wilton Wildlife Preserve & Park. Farber shares her new picture book “Salamander Sky” about the spring migration of thousands of spotted salamanders to ponds and pools, often across busy roads • 10:30 am • www.northshire.com

Northshire Classic Mystery Reading Group (Manchester store) meets to discuss “The Valley of Fear”
by Arthur Conan Doyle • 2 pm • at the bookstore • For more info or to join this group contact Louise Jones at ljones@northshire.com

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MUSIC

Berkshire Music School • Students from the piano studio of Charles Marshall in recital. • 3:30-5 pm • Taft Recital Hall, 30 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA. • free • more info at 413-442-1411 or berkshiremusicschool.org

Caffè Lena • Michael Jerling of Saratoga Springs, a nationally touring singer-songwriter with four decades of poignant, poetic, wry songs • 8 pm • info and tickets ($18/$16 or $9 for children/students) at www.caffelena.org

Close Encounters with Music Gala • program: `LENNY AT 100 – Feel the BERNstein! • 6 pm • Mahaiwe • info and tickets ($27 –$50) at www.mahaiwe.org or cewm.org

Guthrie Center • 2018 Troubadour Series: today, John Davidson: Singer, Songwriter, Storyteller • 8 pm (doors 6 pm) • at the Guthrie Center, Van Deusenville Road, Great Barrington • tickets $20/$25 • more info at www.guthriecenter.org

Helsinki Hudson • BOSS HOG — “scorched earth rock’n’roll for the resistance, barbed-wire blues​ battling for the future of the planet” • 9 pm (doors 6 pm) • info and tickets ($20-$25 at helsinkihudson.com

THEATER

Berkshire Theatre Group • Celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month at the Third Annual Berkshire Dance Party and Cabaret • 7 pm • Colonial • link to tickets ($35) at www.berkshiretheatregroup.org

PS21 presents a staged reading of Ionesco’s “The Chairs” (runs June 8, 9, and 10). Veteran actors Fern Sloan and Ted Pugh bring a fresh interpretation of this delightfully absurdist tragic farce about the imaginary world of a very old couple living in a house on an island • today’s time, 8 pm • at PS21’s new theater located at 2980 Route 66, Chatham, NY • tickets ($25/$20, or $10 for students) and info at www.ps21chatham.org

Barrington Stage • “Typhoid Mary” (runs throughJune 16) • 3 & 7:30 pm

Barrington Stage • “The Royal Family of Broadway” (runs June 7-July 7) • 8 pm

Circle Theatre Players presents “The Importance of Being Ernest” (runs June 1-3, 7-10) • 8 pm

Mac-Haydn • “Funny Girl” (runs June 7-17) • 4 & 8 pm

Shakespeare & Co • “Morning After Grace” (runs May 24-July 15) • 7:30 pm

MISC.

Northshire (Manchester store) • Tommy Orange presents his debut novel “There There,” which describes the urban Native American and grapples with a complex and painful history of sacred tradition, pageantry, sacrifice, heroism, and unspeakable loss • 6 pm • www.northshire.com

Northshire (Saratoga store) • Join author Misty Bell Stiers for a conversation about her memoir, “Witch, Please: Finding Magic in Modern Times.” • 7 pm • www.northshire.com

Chatham Bookstore • Al Roker, author, meteorologist and co-anchor for NBC’s “Today Show,” brings his latest book, “Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster” • 5-7 pm • at the booktore, 27 Main, Chatham, NY • free • more info at 518-392-3005 or chathambookstore.com

Kinderhook Library • Annual June Book Sale (also on 6/10) offering a wide selection of fiction, non-fiction., specialty titles, and children’s books carefully selected and sorted for easy browsing • today’s times, 9 am-3 pm • at the McNary Center on Sylvester Street just steps away from the Library • info at www.kinderhooklibrary.org

Town of Austerlitz NY bicentennial celebration June 9-10 • Today, the following, in Spencertown —
• parade starting at 11 am on Route 7 to the new Town Hall on Route 203;
• dedication ceremonies at the new Town Hall (former Methodist church) at noon, followed by a free community picnic with live music at the town park;
• several historic houses open for visits, 1 pm - 4 pm; • historical exhibits 10 am – 4 pm at St. Peter’s Church (1771) and Spencertown Academy (1847); • illustrated talk, “The History of Austerlitz 1756-2018,” by Town Historian Tom Moreland, Spencertown Academy at 4 pm
• • • For contact info and a history of Austerlitz please visit austerlitzny.com/town-history

Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum is reviving its popular Lenox House Tour, this time in conjunction with the annual Lenox Rhubarb Festival. House tour takes place from 10 am to 4 pm. Descriptive pamphlet/tickets with maps for the house tour are $40 to be purchased ONLY at Ventfort Hall, 104 Walker St. Reservations may be made by calling 413-637-3206. The rhubarb festival takes place on the grounds of the Lenox Library, 18 Main St., from 10 am to 3 pm. A savory rhubarb tasting is available for $5 from 11 am to 1 pm at the festival • www.gildedage.org