CALENDAR

Impermanence

Four Meditations On

PS21, Chatham, NY

Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh, Filipinx composer/percussionist

Susie Ibarra plans a day-long communal exploration of PS21’s forested landscape. PS21Chatham.org

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Fisher Center 20th Anniversary Community Celebration Fisher Center At Bard

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Kick off the S ummerScape season with an all-day, all-ages fête featuring “Kinder Disco!” a Flor de Toloache performance (all-female mariachi), and an aft er -hours dance fl oor in the Spiegeltent. FisherCenter.bard.edu

15-30 As You Like It

Catskill Mountain Shakespeare, Hunter, NY

Nothing says summer like Shakespeare under a tent, and this fl edgling company has chosen a timely tale about a band of discontented courtiers camping out in protest. CatskillMountainShakespeare.com

19-23

Dorrance Dance

Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA

This decade-old New York City company has helped elevate vernacular tap dance to the realm of fi ne art. JacobsPillow.org

JULY 18 –

AUGUST 5 Blues For An Alabama Sky july

Henri VIII Fisher Center at Bard

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Commanding bassbaritone Alfred Walker plays the title role in Saint-Saëns’ Henri VIII, rarely seen on these shores for the past half-century. FisherCenter.bard.edu

15 Così Fan Tutte

Tanglewood, Lenox, MA

Mozart’s romantic bagatelle makes for perfect summery entertainment, especially with a cast of youthful up-and-comers including Nicole Cabell and Elliot Madore. BSO.org/events

16 Laura Benanti In Concert

Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA

Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfi eld, MA Pearl Cleage’s 1995 play captures the heady, hopeful atmosphere of the Harlem Renaissance. BarringtonStageCo.org

JULY 20 –AUGUST 5

The venerable institution (est. 1954) is on semi-hiatus this summer, recalibrating aft er a long-overdue apprentice-led mini-revolt. How fi tting it would be were Benanti to tr ot out her Melania. WTFestival.org

WTF Cabaret

Williamstown Theatre Festival

Williamstown, MA

Williamstown’s cabaret tradition lives on.

Curated by the impish Christopher Fitzgerald, no two weekends of the program are the same, though all are promised to be intimate, casual and ever surprising. WTFestival.org

20-23

Call Fosse At The Minskoff

Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie

Mimi Quillin recreates the heady experience of working with dance giants Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon on their fi na l collaboration. Vassar.edu/powerhouse

Actor/dancer

Runners PS21, Chatham, NY A benefi t introduces the two-night run of Cirk La Putyka, a Czech performance troupe who cavort in concert with a giant treadmill.

22-23

The Chevalier

Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie

Paris, ACTORS!

Williamstown Theatre Festival Williamstown, MA

PS21Chatham.org

The Main Stage stirs to life briefl y for a reading of Hamish Linklater’s latest play, a WWII farce set in occupied Paris, his wife, Lily Rabe, co-stars. WTFestival.org

You’ve seen the movie? The Harlem Chamber Players off er a live take on the saga of fencer/ violinist Joseph Bologne, a familiar of both Mozart and Marie Antoinette.

JULY 31 –AUG 1

Fisher, The Grand Aff air:

Paul

J ohn Singer Sargent in His World The Mount, Lenox, MA One hardly needs a pretext to visit Edith Wharton’s country house, but opportunity to learn more about her good friend, the great painter John Singer Sargent, will serve. EdithWharton.org

Hip-Hop Across The Pillow

Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA

Top contenders will convene for a half-century celebration of the street dance phenomenon. On August 4, all comers are welcome to partake in a participatory, cross-campus “All Styles Dance Battle.” JacobsPillow.org

SEPTEMBER 2

AUGUST 12 –

On Cedar Street

Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge, MA

Oona Doherty

Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA

The Ireland-bred avantgarde choreographer presents the US debut of her latest, largest work, Navy Blue , encompassing “spoken word poetry, political candor and eclectic music.” JacobsPillow.org

Complexions

Vassar.edu/powerhouse

JULY 22AUGUST 27

August Wilson’s Fences

Shakespeare & Co. Lenox, MA Horror fi lm star Tony Todd takes o n the iconic role of a trash collector who still dreams of playing ball. Shakespeare.org

Faith Healer

Barrington Stage Company Pittsfi eld, MA

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Christ opher Innvar assumes the title role in Brian Friel’s mesmerizing 1979 three-hander about an itinerant Irish mystic. BarringtonStageCo.org

Contemporary Ballet august

Could a humble barn theatre generate the next big Broadway show? Signs are good: With a book by Emily Mann and music by Lucy Simon ( The Secret Garden ), this adaptation of Kent Haruf’s novel Our Souls at Night —set in a drought-ridden Colorado town—could go far. BerkshireTheatreGroup.org

...DON’T MISS!

SEPTEMBER 1-3 Hamlet: A StagedReading Shakespeare & Co. Shakespeare.org

4-6, 10-13

Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA

A company as diverse as its repertory makes its Pillow debut with a program centered on Stardust , a tribute to genre-bending superstar David Bowie. JacobsPillow.org

Água Viva Hudson Hall, Hudson Dancers Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-Parritz pay tribute to Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector’s feminist vision. HudsonHall.org

All-Beethoven Program

Tanglewood, Lenox, MA

In what’s sure to be the standout concert of the season, musical superstars Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma focus on the master. BSO.org/events

Vaughan Williams And His World Fisher Center at Bard

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

A two-weekend study—with musical accompaniment ranging from operas to fi lm scores—of the life and work of the prodigious British composer. FisherCenter.bard.edu

AUGUST 16 –SEPTEMBER 10

A New Brain Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfi eld, MA

The BSC, in concert with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, revives William Finn’s autobiographical 1998 musical about a writer (Adam Chanler-Berat) facing a potentially fatal operation while dealing with a domineering mother (the indomitable Mary Testa). BarringtonStageCo.org